The most beautiful April day in the world. Spring is a good time to welcome nature's gifts.
When the grass grows and the warblers fly, wild vegetables gradually emerge in the fields, dandelions, camelina and noodle vegetables are displayed in the wind, waiting for people to find the most delicious taste of spring.
▲Sophora flowers hanging on branches
Go, dig wild vegetables and go
In fact, digging wild vegetables is not the "patent" of contemporary people, as early as more than 5,000 years ago, our ancestors discovered the charm of wild vegetables, in the "Book of Poetry" alone, there are more than 20 kinds of wild vegetables named.
The cay in "Zhou Nan Guan Ji" is a kind of aquatic wild vegetable with green leaves and yellow flowers, similar in appearance and habits to lettuce, and is often used to simmer soup and porridge.
Jagged cabbage, always with "My Fair Lady".
▲Toons on the kitchen board
In the Tang Dynasty, the seasonal activity of digging wild vegetables was directly turned into a festival.
During the famine years, wild vegetables turned from regular food to lifesavers; And today, when food is plentiful, wild vegetables can no longer rely on free to win people's hearts.
Nowadays, many people get more pleasure from digging wild vegetables than eating wild vegetables.
People who have lived in a long-term reinforced concrete city, when they have the opportunity to go outdoors and dig wild vegetables in nature, the happiness harvested between this search will make people love spring and life more.
▲Toons picked up by chopsticks
If you want to dig up satisfactory wild vegetables, it is necessary to work hard, such as mastering the skills of digging wild vegetables, preparing various tools in advance, finding the right place, but also understanding different wild vegetables, dialectical eating vegetables, preventing wild vegetable poisoning is also very important!
A bite of wild vegetables, a spring
Although wild vegetables are risky and need to be cautious in their entrance, they cannot bypass the "cooking method" of the continent that turns decay into magic, so that wild vegetables with bitter taste and rough taste can also be transformed into the white moonlight in the hearts of foodies.
It can be made into dumplings and wontons, or it can be used as a cold mix, wrap, and soup.
Su Dongpo, who never admits defeat in eating, once loved camelina alone. Not only did it create a new way of steaming white fish with camelin, but it also carried forward a soup of camelin.
▲Harvested camelin
Camelina soup, also known as Dongpo soup, is a porridge made of freshly washed camelina vegetables, radish, ginger and rice, which is similar to the water rice in "White Deer Plain" - "green camelina boiled in thin grain grits".
▲Fried toon
Toons are mostly eaten with tofu and scrambled eggs, so that mothers can easily pick up small dishes at home, and they can be served to the table with spring in the air.
Eat a handful of toon, taste a bite of spring, and eat this toon, it can be regarded as not wasting a spring in vain.
The spring breeze arrives in one night, and the locust flowers are fragrant for ten miles. Sophora flowers have a sweet taste, and when the flowering period comes, strings of white locust flowers are dotted with branches, and the air is filled with a faint and elegant fragrance, which is refreshing. Sophora flowers taste best when they are not in bloom, and when they are picked to make a delicious dish, the taste is more fresh and sweet.
▲Fresh acacia flowers
Sophora buns, locust dumplings, locust egg cakes, locust egg soup, locust flowers, locust tea... There are simply too many ways to eat locust flowers!
In detail, the plasticity of wild vegetables is really admirable. It can be sweet or salty, vulgar or elegant, can be made into homemade stir-fry, and can also be made into exquisite dim sum.
Check out this "Eating the Grass" guide
It is good to taste wild vegetables, but some poisonous plants and wild vegetables have similar appearances, can you tell the difference? Some wild vegetables are not suitable for everyone, do you know? Let's take a look at what wild vegetables you can eat!
▲Citizens choose Yuqian toons and other fresh dishes Photo: Ma Jian
01
Dandelion:
Features: Asteraceae perennial herbs, also known as mother-in-law ding, yellow flower diding, etc.
The root is slightly conical, curved, 4~10 cm long, the surface is tan, wrinkled, the leaf edge sometimes has wavy teeth or pinnate deep lobes, the base gradually narrows into a petiole, the petiole and main vein are often reddish purple, the upper part of the flower leaf is purple-red, densely covered with spider silky white long pubescent hairs; Cephalic inflorescences, total bracts bell-shaped, lean fruit dark brown, long crown hairs white.
Efficacy: diuretic, slow diarrhea, anti-jaundice, choleretic, etc.
Serving Instructions: Can be eaten raw, stir-fried, and made into soup. Blanch dandelions in boiling water for 1~2 minutes, and then cook again to reduce some bitterness.
02
Camelina:
Characteristics: basal leaves are rosette-shaped, large head pinnate split, apical lobes ovate to oblong, lateral lobes 3-8 pairs, oblong to ovate, apex tapering, shallow lobes, or irregular coarse serrations or nearly full margin; The stems produce leaves narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate, arrow-shaped at the base, holding the stem, with missing or serrated edges.
Efficacy: Harmony with the spleen, clear heat, water rejuvenation, reduce swelling, calm the liver, stop bleeding, and brighten the purpose.
Serving method: stir-fried, boiled soup, cold dress, camelina buns, etc.
03
Elm Money:
Features: Elm money is the seed of the elm tree, named because of its nearly round appearance and concave at the top, resembling a coin. In spring, it is picked while it is tender and eaten, and it is refreshing and smooth in your mouth.
Efficacy: Strengthens the stomach, calms the nerves, relieves cough and dissolves phlegm.
Serving method: eat raw, cold mix, boiled porridge, etc.
04
Sophora flower:
Characteristics: Sophora flowers are wrinkled and curled, petals are scattered, the outermost leaf-like structure is bell-shaped, yellow-green, 5 petals, yellow or yellow-white.
Efficacy: Clear heat, cool blood, stop bleeding, lower blood pressure.
Eating method: can be made into locust flower tea, locust flower buns, fried locust flowers, locust flower porridge, etc.
05
Noodle dishes:
Noodle dishes, leaf-like edible noodles, whole herbs and young stems and leaves into medicine, have the effect of moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and the common practice is steaming.
Wash the noodle dishes, it is best to wash and dry them overnight, and mix the washed and dried noodle vegetables with cooking oil, which can keep the nutrients and moisture of the vegetable leaves from being lost, and the steamed vegetables will not form a ball.
Stir in the flour and steam over high heat for 5 minutes. Then add salt, garlic paste, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil to taste, the fragrance is unique and attractive, eating too much is more addictive.
06
Portulaca oleracea:
Portulaca oleracea, also known as grasshopper, sour, cold, clear heat and detoxification, cool blood to stop diarrhea; Dehumidification, drainage and other effects.
It is very common to make purslane stuffing dumplings and buns, wash the purslane, put it in boiling water without blanching it and take it out, squeeze out the water and then chop the purslane, so that it can be used to make fillings with other ingredients.
Zhengzhou digging wild vegetables strategy (for reference)
Eastern Front
1. Liuji Town, Zhongmu County
2. Wantan Town, Zhongmu County, there are large wheat fields and woodlands in Wantan Town, Zhongmu County, and you can dig up cabbage, dandelion, noodle vegetables, white artemisia, etc.
3. In Zhongmu Baisha Town, in the fields to the south, there are also many wild vegetables. The air is fresh, and if you pick the camelina leisurely, the mood will be much more relaxed.
West
Erqi District, Xingyang
1. Zhangjiawan Village, Mazhai Town, Erqi District, on both sides of the road south of the village, the ravines and ravines are covered with tender green wild vegetables.
2. In Shuimo Village, Mazhai Town, Erqi District, in the "valley" on the east side of the Shuimo Bridge, there is an endless forest, and there are many wild vegetables growing here.
3. Xingyang Gao Village, there are also many wild vegetables in the nearby farmland.
Southern Route
1. Zhengzhou Arboretum is the first choice for digging wild vegetables in spring.
2. Tongshuwa Village, Houzhai Township, there is a clump of mountain garlic shaped like leeks, you can make dumplings, make vegetable cakes, noodles, scrambled eggs...
3. Airport 6th Road, Zhengzhou Airport Area. There are a lot of fruit tree fields here, and the wild vegetables underneath.
Northern Line
The beach area around the Yellow River embankment
Reminder:
Eat wild vegetables in moderation, and do not eat wild vegetables that you don't know to avoid poisoning. When getting close to nature, please also protect the environment and pick it in a civilized manner!
Let's talk, have you ever eaten wild vegetables?
What other delicious wild vegetables are available in spring?
Come and let us know in the comment section!
Image source of this issue: Photogram (both authorized)
# Editor's note #
The essence of urban life is convergence, and Zhengzhou is the actual existence of this essence of perfection and abundance. Throughout her history, life has accumulated layer by layer, making her what we see today.
Zhengzhou Life Weekly tells the history, geography, culture, cuisine and humanistic memories of Zhengzhou, so that everyone in the city can feel the beauty of Zhengzhou.
Curator: Zhang Xinbin
Coordinator: Xin Xiaoqing
Executive: Zhao Ning, Yu Yanan
Copywriter: Yuan Lianhe Shi Yanrui
Design: Zhang Xuening
Typesetting: Shi Yanrui
Source: Zhengzhou Circle
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