Acorn, a mountain flavor that evokes childhood memories. In your mind, is it your childhood toy? Or is it the fruit that often appears in the hands of squirrels in that cartoon?
It is said that acorns are older grains than wheat and rice, with a starch content of up to about 60 percent and a very high nutritional value. In many parts of the world, many people have been fed in years of famine. However, modern people have more choices, and acorns have gradually become food for green trees and animals.
Acorns are rich in starch and can be used as wine and food, the bark can be extracted from quercus gum, and the leaves can be used to raise silkworms. But when it comes to the food made with it, the most familiar is acorn cold powder!
I heard the older generation say that acorn cold powder has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, but making acorn cold powder is really troublesome...
The acorns are picked up from the mountains and dried, the hard shell is removed, the flesh is ground into a fine powder, and the coarse residue is filtered out. Cook a pot of water, when it is slightly rolled, remove the acorn powder pulp in both tubes and stir well. After the slurry thickens, let it cool and solidify, then take it out and cut it into pieces, that is, it becomes acorn cold powder (tofu).
Sichuan people eat by adding garlic minced pepper and other cold mixes, the taste is cool and spicy, in the summer is really a special appetizing cold dish. Can also be mixed with brown sugar to make dessert, the elders said that acorn powder is cool, can clear the heat, cool down and prevent heat. The use of acorn powder is also popular in South Korea, but the method is slightly different...
Most Korean methods include many vegetables in acorn powder, cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, perilla leaves, lettuce onions and so on.
However, the seasoning is much the same, first with soy sauce, paprika, white sugar, garlic paste, sesame oil and a little white sesame seeds to make a sauce, and then pour into the acorn powder with vegetables and mix well. Spicy and refreshing, it is both appetizing and can be used as an appetizer.
In addition, in Korea, it is usually eaten with Korean-style potato cake or white cut meat with rice wine. It is said that the taste is the best when eaten with white cut meat! You might as well give it a try.
The acorn powder production process is very flowery, fortunately, there are also ready-made packaging acorn powders on the market now, and although the flavor is not as good as the freshly made, it is really convenient.
Now that the living conditions are better, there are not many people who miss the simple forest flavor of acorns. Even if you can still find it for free in the mountains today, you may not want to spend time making it into a delicacy.
When it comes to animals' love of acorns, the first thing that comes to mind is it from Ice Age? But Iberian pigs raised in the Spanish region of D'Essa are more inseparable from acorns than squirrels.
It makes sense to say that acorns make Iberi ham delicious. The Iberian pigs raised in the Deesa region feed on grass, chestnuts, and acorns, so pork has a special sweetness and taste that is different from traditional pork.
The 5J grade Iberian ham needs to be stored for more than 36 months to be made. The ham tastes salty and sweet, and you can also eat the aroma of nuts between chewing, which is known as an addictive dream delicacy and one of the nine legendary ingredients in Europe.
However, this does not mean that Westerners will give up the edible value and delicious taste of acorns. Some people also believe that cannonball acorns have soothing effects. They would first soak in cold water to remove the tannins, filter out the starch in a method similar to making acorn powder, and then use the starch to make a pie, but more often than not, they would make bread with acorn powder...
The acorn powder is first extracted and added to the wheat flour in a certain proportion. However, acorn flour is not like high gluten flour, so acorn bread is difficult to knead the film, and the taste is not as delicate as ordinary bread. However, bread made with acorn powder is said to have an aromatic taste similar to that of the forest after the rain.
Shioshi has also seen a recipe for making "hamburger steak" with acorns instead of meat. The method is to chop the acorns and soak them in water for a period of time, remove the filtered water, add the chopped mushrooms, flour, avocado oil, potato starch, salt and some spices, and mix it to fry it into a "meatloaf".
Acorn also has such a "nickname" - "love nut". It is said that acorn nuts are regarded as nuts that symbolize "love", so they are also known as "love nuts".
Every year when the acorns fall to the ground, it also implies that autumn is coming. Regarding acorns, I wonder what other good ways to eat them? Seeing the fruits on the ground, I feel that as long as I master the technology, there is no shortage of staple foods. Ha~
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