Question of the day: Aren't cloves flowers? How can there be a male and female?
All things are yin and yang, heaven and earth are self-conscious day and night, and lilacs can of course be divided into male and female. But this lilac is not a lilac.
Cloves are famous in Chinese and even world history, often used in medicine and seasoning, and have a very high status in the plant kingdom.
Today we will come to science popularization, this wonderful and delicious clove.
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Cloves, scientific name cloves, is a spice native to Indonesia.
It got its name because of its nail-like shape and unique aroma.
As one of the "Spice Four" that was once a saga, the popularity of cloves in countries around the world is also closely related to the establishment of great maritime trade routes, and was also a treasure spice sought after by European aristocrats.
Due to its difficulty in growing and the stringent climatic conditions, it is still an expensive spice, second only to saffron, vanilla and cardamom.
The buds commonly used in seasoning are actually the buds of the cloves, which are the most common spices when they are picked and dried when they have just turned from red to green. This is the male lilac.
And the mother clove is its fruit, also known as chicken tongue incense, and there is a nice name called: pavilion jiong only, giving people a romantic and elegant feeling.
Li Shizhen quoted the Tang Dynasty physician Chen Zangqi in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" as explaining: "Chicken tongue incense is the same species as cloves, flowers are overgrown, and the largest center is chicken tongue, which is natural to break, and the solution is two directions, such as chicken tongue, so the name is mother lilac." ”
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In China, where medicine and food are of the same origin, cloves are also known as a Chinese herbal medicine.
Chinese medicine believes that cloves have the effect of warming the middle, warming the kidneys and reducing the inversion, and the reversal is vomiting and nausea, which is not difficult to understand, cloves are used to strengthen the stomach.
In addition, cloves can also "detoxify", the solution is the "cold poison" left in the body after excessive consumption of wine meat, melons and fruits, fish and crabs. Especially in the summer when it is cold and cold, if you accidentally eat and hurt your spleen and stomach, you will use cloves.
Not only does Chinese medicine favor it, but in Western medical research, the miraculous medicinal use of cloves has also been discovered.
Nutrients found in cloves include carbohydrates, protein, energy, and dietary fiber. Includes potassium, calcium, sodium and magnesium. Vitamins include vitamin E, folic acid, and niacin. Also contains phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, and vitamins A and K.
Looking so magical, but can not eat a lot of it every day, is there a better way?
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So what does clove taste like?
Spicy, fragrant, slightly bitter, neutralize the three into one, slightly like the taste of the plum entrance.
The northern people's favorite five-spice brine, the marinade ingredient list is bound to be indispensable to cloves, the famous ancient thirteen spices also have its figure.
Cloves are especially suitable for cooking methods such as simmering and simmering, and the slow heat can maximize its aroma, neutralize the slight bitterness, increase the slight spicyness, and identify its special flavor in one bite.
Due to the particularity of the butter flavor, it is mostly used to make dishes with meat, and is rarely associated with vegetarian dishes. It is added to cantonese cuisine, such as chicken in soy sauce, drunken crab in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and stewed stick bones in the north.
In the eyes of Westerners, cloves can also be used to make desserts, wine and drinks, enhancing the level of aroma and the hedging of taste.
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Since cloves are so delicious, how should they be used?
Especially in the marinated stew, put a few grams of cloves, not only can be spicy and delicious, but also healthy spleen and stomach.
Of course, if you don't have a good grasp of the combination or dosage of plant spices, let Huang Shaw's herbal sauce help you solve it.
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