Introduction: Resembling a kongo vine, the tender tip resembles a cow's tail, known as "oxtail", which is a high-quality wild vegetable
The peasant uncle who lives in the countryside works in the fields every day, works in the mountains, goes in the wind and rain, wind and rain all year round, and deals with dirt every day.
For many older generations, they certainly know a lot of valuable wild plants that have helped many people in their lives.
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For example, the common Diamond Vine on the mountain, its red fruit was once a small snack that we often ate when we were young, the tender tip can be eaten as a wild grass, and the root can also be boiled with soup to drink, which has the effect of anti-inflammatory and dehumidifying.
The plant I share with you today is also a precious wild plant in the mountains, which looks like a kongo vine, and this plant we all call it a cow's tail.
Why is it called Oxtail? This is because the place where it cooks is to pinch its tender tip to cook, and its tender tip is long, with tendrils at the tail, which looks exactly like the tail of a cow, so it is named oxtail.
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Oxtail is also known as grass sarsaparilla, large stretch grass, whip sheath vegetable, grass calamus, mille-feuille tower, dragon whiskers, old dragon whiskers, white whiskers, kong bean vine and other aliases, is a lily family of sarsaparilla perennial herbaceous vines, and the kongo vine is the same family of plants, so the two plants grow very similar.
The tender tip of oxtail is a delicious wild vegetable, which can be stir-fried, boiled soup, cold mix, etc., and can also be fried with bacon, which has a unique taste, crisp and crisp, has a unique flavor, and is a kind of wild game that the hometown people like to eat very much.
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In the folk, oxtail has the title of "king of wild vegetables", its nutritional value is far more than the general vegetables, even higher than the precious mountain wild vegetables white asparagus, its amino acids, vitamins rich in content, high nutritional value, this is the real mountain wild vegetables, the king of wild vegetables is well-deserved.
In fact, oxtail is not only its tender tip can be eaten, but also its roots are also treasures, and its underground rhizome has many whiskers, so it is also known as "hundred whiskers root".
Hometown people often use its rhizome-like pot pig's foot, used to cook pig's foot is a must, the taste is very good, but also to supplement the body nutrition, has a good health care effect.
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At the same time, the rhizome of oxtail also has certain medicinal value, has expectorant cough, blood circulation and stasis, tongluo analgesia effect, cough phlegm, waist and hamstring pain, rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, lumbar muscle strain, rheumatic pain and other diseases are curative.
It can be said that oxtail is full of treasure. Friends, do you have this kind of oxtail in your hometown? It is the "king of wild vegetables" in the mountains, looks like a kongo vine, tender tip like a cow's tail, is a high-quality wild vegetable, if you meet in your hometown, please pay attention to it in time.