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Stir-fried bacon with quinoa is a famous dish in The Nanchang region of Jiangxi Province. The earliest was invented by fishermen living on the shore of Poyang Lake, with salty and soft bacon, more able to set off the unique aquatic and grass fragrance of Quinoa, quinoa such as green ribbon, tender green in the glow, bacon golden red and white, yellow and green, look at it also makes people appetite increase.
Chinese Gan cuisine
Artemisia quinoa is a wild plant in Poyang Lake, and every year in the spring of March, The people of Nanchang are particularly fond of stir-frying bacon with quinoa.
It is simple to make, cutting the young stem of Quinoa after removing the root into half-inch long segments, and the bacon is cut into strips, plus some green onions. First fry the bacon, then add the quinoa and green onion and sauté, add the soup, a moment from the pot, drizzle with small sesame oil to serve, the bacon is golden, the quinoa is green, crisp and tender, and has a special fragrance. As the saying goes: "The grass of Poyang Lake, the treasure of the Nanchang people", can you withstand the temptation of this dish?
There is a song in Jiangnan Water Town: "Zhengyue Quinoa, February Artemisia". In early spring and February, grass warblers fly and everything recovers, which is the season when the buds and shoots are full of branches, and it is also the season when quinoa grows.
Quinoa was originally an inconspicuous aquatic plant along the shore of Poyang Lake, which received the baptism of cold winter, and just stretched out of the soil, it was picked by diners to pick young buds, calling it "quinoa (mud) artemisia buds". The most classic way to eat quinoa sprouts is to accompany the bacon and stir-fry in a pot. Although I have also seen it used to fry red peppers and stir-fry dried incense, for many Nanchang people, quinoa sprouts stir-fried bacon is a spring classic - quinoa sprouts are refreshing, bacon is salty.
01 It is a delicacy of spring
Eating quinoa depends on the season, in the early spring, quinoa is a good vegetable, whenever the spring breeze sends warmth, Nanchang people living in the water town of Zeyuan will go to the lakeside to pick quinoa. The song said: "The first month of quinoa, February artemisia; March, April for firewood burning", the seasonality of picking quinoa is stronger, after March quinoa old firewood like grass, can only be dried as grass firewood.
Old Chinese medicine has the saying of "positive moon immortal herb, February artemisia", which means that after picking and eating quinoa in the first month, it has the effect of dispelling dampness and detoxification. In may of the lunar calendar, people hang artemisia grass on the door to ward off mosquitoes, flies and evil spirits. In the Shennong Materia Medica, Quinoa is listed as a wild vegetable.
Stir-fried bacon with quinoa is a home-cooked wild vegetable that every Jiangxi person loves to eat, and has always enjoyed the reputation of "crisp and tender on the plate, flavor crown spring vegetables".
02 Treasure on the dinner table of Nanchang people
Almost the country's Gan cuisine restaurants to prove the authentic taste, the recipe is indispensable to "quinoa fried bacon", otherwise it is not called a Gan cuisine restaurant.
Jiangxi people have been eating Artemisia annua for more than a thousand years, "down to the age of three just walk, up to the old man ninety-nine" love to eat quinoa fried bacon. The theme song of Jiangxi's first dialect drama series "Ten Thousand Families in Songbai Lane" was "Fried Bacon with Quinoa". Look at the lyrics and you can see how popular this dish is: "What a rarity? Waiting for the dead! (What to eat?) Hungry people! There were a few grasses in Poyang Lake, and the Nanchang people's dinner table became treasures. Spray incense on the day of red fire, live a tasteful and flavorful, raced through the quinoa fried bacon, thousands of households Le pottery, Le tao pottery. "The turquoise quinoa and the red and fiery bacon are the indispensable finale dishes on the Table of Jiangxi People's New Year, which means that the New Year is red and hot!
03 There are also unexpected effects
For the elderly, Quinoa is not only a delicious dish with a refreshing fragrance, but also has a magical health function. The fifteenth volume of the Materia Medica has a record: "Quinoa smell sweet and non-toxic, mainly for the treatment of five bloating evil qi, wind cold and wet spleen, tonic qi, long hair, long food light body, deafness and vision, anti-aging." "Chinese medicine Artemisia annua has the functions of clearing heat, dampness and insecticidality, and modern medicine has found that often eating Quinoa can achieve blood pressure reduction, cancer prevention and anti-cancer, stomach and other effects."
Next, follow your eldest cousin to Nanchang to see the shops that make quinoa bacon!
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Now, fried bacon with quinoa is for the people of Nanchang
It's more than just a dish
It is a tradition, a culture
A complex that cannot be abandoned
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