At the foot of Dali Cangshan Mountain, there are pieces of tribute vegetables, shaped like lettuce, unique way of eating, fresh tribute vegetables will have bitter pulp, need to be cut into long strips and dried in the sun, dehydrated, retain the crisp taste and light sweetness, is an indispensable hot pot companion!
Speaking of tribute dishes, the most asked question is: Is the tribute dish lettuce?
They belong to the same family, but two different things.
Lettuce is only eaten fresh, and tribute vegetables can only be eaten after drying.
Fresh tribute dishes will have a white pulp, a little astringent, with a pronounced bitter taste.
After peeling the tribute vegetables, they are cut into long strips of uniform thickness and hung in a place half shade and half yang to dry, so what we see every day is the tribute vegetables that have been dried.
Before I went to Dali, I thought this was something I could do with my hands, but I found out that striping is really a special test of experience.
Auntie said that it takes at least 3 days of practice to get started, but given that my previous knife skills are still good, I can barely get started after practicing for 2 hours, but the movements are relatively slow and the strokes are not very even.
The ripening period of tribute vegetables is relatively short, within 15 days of maturity must be cut down and dried, too tender will affect the taste, if too old to bloom, tribute vegetables will have hollow, the quality is not good.
And the tribute vegetables must be cut back on the same day and must be cut and dried on the same day, so all the people who grow tribute vegetables in the village are "au pair system", today we will come to help your family row tribute dishes, tomorrow go to another house, there is no wages, they all help each other.
In the village in March, under the walnut trees that have not yet sprouted, the yards of each family are lined with tribute vegetables that are dried.
After drying for three days, the tribute vegetables are basically dried and can be sold in the market.
The first time I ate tribute dishes was in a hot pot restaurant, and almost every time I eat hot pot, it is a must. Dried tribute vegetables are cooked directly in a piping hot pot, which can quickly absorb the soup, and the taste is crisp with a slight sweetness.
Soak the tribute vegetables in clean water for 20 minutes, and the shoots can grow to 5 times the original size.
Blanched and then chilled or fried eggs, it is a favorite way for locals to eat them.
It itself has a crisp taste, does not require complex ingredients, and eats this unique fresh and natural.
Tribute cuisine can maintain a crisp and refreshing taste no matter how you eat, take advantage of Xiaohao's home, he chopped the meat himself, I and the noodles to wrap a dumpling to eat, this crisp and delicious bite you must try.
To eat hot pot, there must be tribute dishes, I fried a pot of hot pot base, and simply prepared some side dishes that my family loved.
Usually boiled meat and then vegetarian, but this time, the first hot pot base is cooked tribute dishes, but fragrant, really more fragrant than eating meat...
Among the strange vegetable varieties in Yunnan, tribute vegetables are rare "vegetables" that can only be eaten after drying, and because of the ease of transportation, everyone can eat tribute vegetables grown in Yunnan.
It is worth mentioning that the origin of tribute vegetables is not in Dali, Yunnan, and was later introduced and planted from other provinces, but the land of Yunnan is so magical, although the price of tribute vegetables grown is high, but it is particularly popular with everyone.
There are too many tribute dishes of uneven quality on the market, some of which are not crispy, some that taste tendon, and some that dye the color for the color to look good...
If you only choose dried tribute vegetables that are just ripe and dried at one time, the price is not cheap, but it is really worth trying, if you don't know how to choose, then trust me...
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