Rice porridge of seven spring herbs

We have a custom to eat rice porridge on Jan 7th, containing seven spring herbs such as gogyo, hakobe, suzuna, suzusiro, seri, nazuna, and hotokenoza.
Ingredients: rice, water, salt and seven spring herbs.

Place a cup of rice and 9 cups of water in an earthen pot and turn heat. Once water boils, turn down the heat and boil well.

Add spring herbs and salt with tasting. That's all!

It is a very simple taste, but those herbs are rich in merals to help blood circulation, and also we belive those who have this will stay in good health for an entire year.