Source: Variety Kitchen
Today is a special season, and it is also the season of revival of all things. During this season, a large number of wild vegetables appear in the fields and on the mountainsides, and it can be said that they can be found everywhere.
As a person who likes to eat wild vegetables, I go to pick all kinds of wild vegetables every year.
To say that the most popular wild vegetable in spring is the shepherd's cabbage, but many friends don't know that our plantain is also one of the common wild vegetables in spring, but few people know its use, so that it is a pity to treat it as a weed.
Every spring in this season, I will pick a lot of plantain home, plantain is different from other wild vegetables, it not only grows on the mountainside, and some inconspicuous, there are soil places, and like our field paths will have, when I see him, his leaves are always dirty, stained with soil, looks very dirty, and even some people trample on the plantain at will, but the plantain is still vibrant, which shows that the plantain its "vitality" is particularly strong.
As usual, I also picked a lot of plantain this time, and the plantain was different from other wild vegetables when it was plantain, and every time I would dig it out along with its rhizome, because the rhizome of plantain is also extremely nutritious, and the nutrients contained are no less than its leaves.
It took half a day to harvest a large basket full of plantain.
The plantain that had just come home was put in a huge pot, and a basket of plantain took up a large pot. Then move the pot containing the plantain to the bottom of the running water, rub it repeatedly, and rinse it to wash off the excess soil on the plantain first.
Rinse twice, like a lot of soil at the roots, and some dirt on the leaves, and you can rinse it off.
This is just the first step, then we add half a bag of salt, add an appropriate amount of water, and soak the plantain for 15 minutes.
A lot of friends may find it troublesome, but that's not the case. I just told you that the growth environment of plantain is general, it grows in a dirty and messy place, its vitality is relatively strong, sometimes we step on the soles of our feet, and even there will be some chicken manure, duck manure or bird droppings on it, etc., and even more, in the countryside, there is likely to be spit, saliva, etc., so it is very dirty.
After soaking in salt water for 15 minutes, we now carefully wash the plantain one at a time.
Then rinse it several times with water so that all the plantain is clean.
After all the plantain is washed, I take out a part of it and use it today, and I put the rest into a dustpan, and then put it on the balcony to dry it completely, usually for 3 to 4 days, before the moisture in the plantain can be fully dried.
Dried plantain, we use a sealed bag to pack it, so that it can be stored for a whole year will not be broken, can be used to make tea, can also be used to cook soup, the usage is very much, we often use the method in the countryside is to take the dried plantain soaked water to drink.
In addition, today I will share with you a very delicious method of plantain, which many friends have never eaten.
We prepare a large handful of plantain that we have just washed, cut off the roots, and the roots are not needed here, but put them in a bowl, and we can use it to boil water and drink.
Today, we only use the leaves of the plantain, and then boil a pot of water in advance, boil the water until it is open and boil, drip a few drops of cooking oil into it, and then add a little salt, and stir the salt until it is completely dissolved.
Then blanch the leaves of the plantain in water for 30 seconds, and add a little cooking oil when blanching, which can ensure that the nutrients in the plantain are not lost, and can make the leaves of the plantain look more green.
Blanching the plantain can remove some of the bitterness inside. In addition, it can also achieve a high-temperature sterilization effect.
After mixing the plantain with water, we give him cool water and then squeeze the water on the surface dry.
Then chop the plantain into these pieces, the more chopped as possible, and put them in a bowl for later use.
Next, we prepare a piece of pork belly with Panax notoginseng powder, remove the pork skin, cut the meat into thick slices first, then cut into strips, then cut into diced meat, chop it slightly, and chop it into minced meat.
How good minced meat, we add a little salt, a little light soy sauce, a little dark soy sauce to color, a little starch and a little sesame oil, and stir well.
After stirring well, now we add a little chopped green onion to it, and then add the plantain we chopped just now, if you like to eat carrots, we can also add a little carrot crushed to it, this can be set according to your own preferences! Then add a little salt, a little monosodium glutamate and a little sugar to make it fresh, and a little pepper to remove the smell.
Then stir in one direction to allow all the ingredients to be fully mixed, so that our plantain pork filling is ready.
The plantain boiled meat filling that comes out of this way can be used to make steamed buns, and it can also be used to make dumplings, and the dumpling wrappers I bought today.
We wrap the meat filling into the dumpling wrapper one by one, and wrap the dumplings into the shape we like, so that our plantain stuffed dumplings are ready.
After the dumplings are made, we can put them in the water and cook them.
Bring the water to a boil, put the dumplings in the pot and cook The one trick to cook the dumplings is to cook them over medium heat, and add cold water three times during the whole cooking process. This is what the so-called "three dumplings, two noodles" means.
The dumplings made in this way are all intact and do not break the skin or reveal the filling.
When it's done, it's on the table, and we're ready to enjoy it.
The dumplings made with plantain are super popular with children, not only adults, but also children, and they taste "spring" when you bite into them.
We can not only boil dumplings in water, but also put them in a steamer, and steamed dumplings are super delicious.
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