Dandelion, noodle dish, elm money, shepherd's cabbage...... Right now, the spring wild vegetables are in full bloom, and if you miss it, you have to wait another year. Recently, the reporter came to the major supermarkets and farmers' markets in the island city and found that many spring wild vegetables have become an indispensable delicacy on the spring table of citizens, and many hotels have also launched many new dishes around wild vegetables.
Wild vegetable sales area of a supermarket in Qingdao.
The spring vegetable market "game" is fresh
The spring breeze is blowing, and the seasonal vegetables in spring are the "hot goods" in the vegetable basket of the island city. In the past few days, wild vegetables have seized the "C position" of many supermarkets and farmers' markets. The reporter saw in the vegetable area of the "Spring Wild Vegetable Fresh" of a Liqun supermarket in Shibei District that wild vegetables such as bitter herbs, dandelions, camellia, noodles, and elm money were displayed on the stalls. The price of shepherd's cabbage is 5.99 yuan/jin, and the price of noodle dishes is 8.49 yuan/jin. In order to let the public know how to eat wild vegetables, there are also materials on how to make wild vegetables in the vegetable display area.
In the Shuizhai Market in Fu'an Street, Jiaozhou City, citizens come and go carrying large bags and small bags to purchase wild vegetables. "Fresh bitter herbs and dandelions are just picked in the morning. Zhu Bingxiang, the stall owner, lives in Shimu Tian Village, Yanghe Street, Jiaozhou City, early in the morning she brought her self-picked wild vegetables to the vegetable market to sell, these wild vegetables are all washed and dried the night before, and when they arrive at the market, they become "fragrant dumplings", and they can sell forty or fifty catties in the morning.
Bitter herbs at a farmer's market stall.
Valley rain or a watershed in the price of wild vegetables
Wild vegetables are delicious, and the price is also the focus of the public. Toon is known as the most flavorful seasonal wild vegetable, and when it was first listed in March, the price per catty could reach 130 yuan per catty. As the weather warmed up and open-air toons came on the market in large quantities, prices slowly began to fall. In addition to toon, there are wild vegetables such as acacia flowers and elm money have been listed in the farmers' market, and the sophora flower is 24.9 yuan/jin, and the elm money is 14.9 yuan/jin. In Dianzi Town, Pingdu City, a villager who sells Yuqian told reporters that Yuqian can be eaten for another two weeks, and it will soon be off the market, and after eating Yuqian, he will be able to eat Huaihua in early May.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Fushun Road Vegetable Wholesale Market, although it is a good time to try it, the current price of wild vegetables is not the lowest point, and when it rains, these wild vegetables will fall to the lowest price and slowly delisted.
Toons sold at the farmer's market.
Cooking wild vegetables requires skill and innovation
Ms. Wang, who lives in the Blue Peninsula Community, Sanlihe Street, Jiaozhou City, is a loyal fan of wild vegetables, she likes to pick the dandelions with small yellow flowers, wash them, dip them in sauce and eat them raw, and you can also buy the Yin Chen after soaking and washing them many times, wrap them in flour, sprinkle them with an appropriate amount of salt, and steam them in a pot for 20 minutes, which is a delicious dish.
In order to give diners a taste of spring, many hotels are trying to innovate. At the 1903 store of Dacheng Restaurant Qing Beer on Huayang Road, Shibei District, wild vegetable dishes such as air spring rolls and shepherd's cabbage buns, fresh pepper and shepherd's cabbage puree mixed with spring bamboo shoots are very popular among diners. Chef Zou Yushan introduced that the shepherd's cabbage is on the market, just when the clams are fattening, the air spring roll shepherd's cabbage small package is fried with spring rolls, and then put the shepherd's cabbage and clam meat inside, the production process is not complicated, but it is a delicious and fragrant spring dish. Ronghai Yaozhou Hotel in Licang District has launched toon-themed dishes such as toon open onion oil mixed noodles, toon shrimp gelatin bell rolls, and fresh toon crispy fried small mushrooms, which once became a spring dish with a relatively high serving rate. According to Yang Shi, executive chef of Ronghai Yaozhou Hotel, toon can be cooked by frying to make its taste more peaceful, so that diners who usually don't like to eat toon can also try it. Le Mei Lale Méridien Qingdao has launched cucumber flowers and hot sea sausage to become a hot dish, the head chef of the restaurant, Zhang Yaohua, introduced that this dish selects seasonal ingredients, selects high-quality cucumber flowers and live sea sausages, and integrates the full spring into the ingenuity of the delicacy, that is, there is the green crisp of cucumber flowers, and the fresh fragrance of sea sausage, which is rich in taste and full of layers.
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Eating wild vegetables should be done with three preventions
Wild vegetables are delicious, and there are precautions. Some experts said, "When eating wild vegetables, we must achieve three preventions: recognize the physique and prevent cold: for people with yin deficiency and fire physique, eating more wild vegetables can play a role in nourishing yin and reducing fire, but for people with yang deficiency and cold physique, eating too many wild vegetables can easily cause spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, affecting physical health; "The protein content and protein nutritional value of several special wild vegetables such as toon, camellia and artemisia annua are higher than those of many ordinary vegetables, and many wild vegetables are also rich in vitamins and minerals that are beneficial to human health, such as carotenoids, vitamin C, calcium, iron, magnesium, etc.
Source: Guanhai News/Qingdao Evening News/Pocket Qingdao Reporter Ma Nina Photo report