Zibai, known as 菰 in ancient times, is shaped like a bamboo shoot, also known as bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, and high melons.
People eat the earliest seed of zibai, called rice or carved hu, and rice, millet, millet, millet, sorghum, wheat are collectively called six grains, and the shelling is steamed or boiled porridge, and the taste of carved rice should be very good, Shixian Li Bai said: "Kneel into the carved rice, the moon bright vegetarian plate." Du Fu also wrote in the poem: Slippery memory carved hu rice, fragrant smell of brocade soup.
"Erya" has: "Vegetables like native fungus raw herbs, now Jiangdong sweet and slippery", after the vine is parasitized by black powder fungus, the expanded tubers were found to be able to cook, to the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been artificial cultivation of zibai, generations of preferred breeding, until the white flesh is sticky and soft, the entrance is luscious, so the white is called aquatic vegetables, and has the reputation of "water ginseng", and lettuce, perch and known as "three famous dishes in Jiangnan".
Fan Chengda, a poet who lived in Shihu during the Southern Song Dynasty, said: "菰, that is, 茭也, 菰首, Wu zhizhi 茭白, luscious soup." ”
It grows in ponds, the water should not be too deep, and cold and high temperatures are not suitable for growth.
Zibai grows in the water
Pick the white
Pick the washed white
Whether it is steamed or stir-fried with vegetarian dishes, or stewed and boiled with meat, it does not change its soft and sticky flavor.
Freshly picked russet white, peel off the shell, fresh russet white without peeling. Cut the hob and fry in a frying pan until soft and charred, add soy sauce, oyster sauce, simmer to collect the juice, rich and crispy.
The lean meat is shredded and marinated, sautéed in oil until it changes color, then add the shredded russet and chili pepper and stir-fry in oil until the juice is collected.
Buy the white to choose the skin color is slightly yellow, the meat is white and pure, if the color is gray or there are black powder bacteria, can not be eaten.