Year after year, I wonder if you have achieved "toon freedom"?
Although it is now the season of toon launch, this rich and special aroma is arousing the hearts of countless diners.
Because toon contains a series of volatile aromatic organics such as toonin, it is precisely because of this organic substance that the status of toon in the gastronomic world has always been controversial.
Like coriander, the lover is regarded as the most delicious in the world, and every spring the eyes can eat a bite.
The disgusters avoid it, nauseous to this indescribable pungent smell.
(A beijing supermarket toon seedlings priced at 3.99 yuan / two, not sold out too early)
Food is amorphous, palatable Jane, why is there a diametrically opposed situation?
A variety of volatile substances in toon, usually including camphor, dipterocarp, syringene, oleifera, cedar alcohol, and alloy accompanisolol, due to differences in human taste genes and olfactory genes.
Therefore, whether it is a cinnabar mole or the fate of mosquito blood, in essence, it has long been predestined.
Toon, it is really a good taste of spring
Toon is particularly rich in vitamins, carrots, vegetarian calcium potassium and phosphorus and other nutrients, has a good health effect on human health, rich dietary fiber is also suitable for people who need to control weight or occasionally have poor bowel movements.
At the same time, toon is also a special ingredient for clearing heat and dampness, diuresis and detoxification, which can not only help the human body supplement nutrition, but also prevent common diseases such as enteritis and dysentery.
The most important thing is that toon contains a lot of glutamic acid, glutamic acid can account for 2.6% of the dry matter of toon, and sodium glutamate is the main component of taste.
What should I pay attention to when eating toon?
1. Blanch it with boiling water before eating
The nitrate and nitrite components contained in toon are many times higher than those found in other vegetables. After these ingredients enter the human body, it is easy to form ammonium nitrite.
Therefore, before eating toon buds, be sure to blanch them with boiling water. After the toon is cleaned, blanched in boiling water for about a minute, 2/3 of the nitrate and nitrite in the toon buds can be removed.
2. Eat fresh toon buds
If the toon buds are left for a long time after picking, or when they are stored in a greenhouse, the nitrate component in the toon will be converted into nitrite.
When buying toon buds, be sure to observe whether the toon buds are fresh, and don't buy them if they are not fresh.
Third, try not to eat pickled toon
Many people like to eat some pickled toon, use the pickling method to preserve the toon, can be stored for a longer time.
However, if the toon is pickled with table salt, it will produce a lot of nitrite components, and the salt content is high, which will have a certain impact on blood vessels and organs such as the gastrointestinal tract.
Therefore, the safest way to do this is to blanch the toon and then marinate it, which can greatly reduce the nitrate content and reduce the danger of pickling the toon.
Toon, what are the ways to eat it?
Although toon is controversial in the food industry, then the dishes made with toon naturally cannot escape the end of "another plate" and "quick withdrawal".
However, there are really many ways to eat toon, and su song's "Tujing Materia Medica" of the Song Dynasty points out: "The tree is solid and the leaves are fragrant, and it is delicious to take." "Especially the scrambled eggs of toon are the daylight of many toon lovers."
After the fresh toon buds are chopped, and then put into boiling water to blanch, the toon buds quickly change from the original purple red to tender green under high temperature conditions, and then add the beaten egg liquid evenly poured in the pot, can be fried or fried, can be old or tender.
A plate of tender yellow and light green toon scrambled eggs, just like the warm sun of spring, with the soft colors of the exclusive spring, let people fully immerse themselves in the delicious taste of spring.
Of course, in front of the toon disgusters, this plate of "smell of spring" also spits out the spell of your body every minute, and even thinking about it is a little disgusting.