Breakfast · 90 min · chinese

Eight-Treasure Porridge

A Chinese breakfast built around sweet rice and black rice — on the table in 90 minutes.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup Sweet rice
• 0.25 cup Black rice
• 0.25 cup Red beans
• 0.25 cup Lotus seeds
• 2 tbsp Dried longan
• 6 Red dates
• 0.25 cup Rock sugar
• 6 cups Water

Steps

1. Soak the red beans and lotus seeds overnight. They are the slowpokes of the pot; everything else catches up.
2. Combine all the grains, beans, seeds, and fruit in a heavy pot with the water and bring to a boil.
3. Drop to the gentlest simmer, cover ajar, and cook 75 minutes, stirring occasionally. The porridge is done when the beans are creamy and the broth turns silky.
4. Stir in the rock sugar until dissolved. Taste: it should be gently sweet, the kind that tastes like breakfast, not dessert.
5. Serve warm in bowls. Traditionally eaten on the Laba festival, but it is too good to save for one day a year.

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