Introduction: Before the beginning of summer, hurry up and eat "the first fresh in May", fresh and nutritious, seasonal, miss and wait for another 1 year~
"Huailin May Yangqiong flowers, lush and fragrant drunk thousands of homes", as the saying goes, "May acacia flowers bloom, fragrance with summer", around the beginning of summer in May is the season when acacia flowers bloom. When the locust flowers open, there are white locust flowers rippling everywhere, lush, fragrant and fragrant, everywhere is filled with the fragrance of locust flowers, refreshing people's hearts, with the blooming of locust flowers, the breath of summer is also coming......
The locust flower is also the small flower of the locust tree, also called "locust rice", "acacia flower", it blooms around May every year, the taste is delicious and sweet, and it is called "the first fresh in May". The flowering period of locust flowers is very short, generally only about a week, so if you want to taste it, you must hurry, otherwise you can only wait until the next year.
The nutritional value of acacia flowers is very high, rich in protein, vitamins and calcium, iron and other nutrients, with anti-inflammatory and sterilization, heat and dampness, qi and blood, enhance immunity and other effects, eat a little more in moderation to the body has a lot of benefits, every year in the acacia season, I will use it to make a variety of delicacies.
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1. Pick out the leaves and branches in the locust flowers first, and then rinse them several times and remove them for later use. Boil a pot of boiling water in advance, add a spoonful of salt after the water boils, then pour in the acacia flowers and blanch them, until the color of the acacia flowers turns green, then take them out, and then put them in cold water to cool them, and then put them in a pot for later use after squeezing out the water.
2. Put an appropriate amount of green onions, peppercorns and ginger slices in a bowl, then pour warm water and soak for 20 minutes, then filter out the green onions, ginger and pepper water for later use.
3. After chopping the appropriate amount of pork, put it in the basin, and then divide it into 3~4 times to add green onion, ginger and pepper water to the meat filling to remove the smell and increase the flavor (about 120 grams of pepper water is added to 1 kg of meat filling), stir with chopsticks in one direction after each addition, pour in the pepper water again after full absorption, and then start seasoning after the pepper water is completely absorbed: add a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of oyster sauce, two spoons of light soy sauce, a little dark soy sauce, half a spoon of sugar, an appropriate amount of pepper, Essence of chicken, stir well, and then beat an egg, which can make the meat filling more tender, continue to stir evenly and set aside.
4. Add an appropriate amount of oil to the pot again, pour in the remaining green onion segments, ginger slices and peppercorns left in the shallot ginger water, pour the fried scallion oil into the meat filling, stir evenly again and put it together with the acacia flower, and then drop in a few drops of sesame oil to increase the fragrance, stir evenly again, and the delicious Huaihua dumpling filling will be adjusted.
【Scrambled eggs with acacia flowers】:
It is best to choose half-opened and unopened flowers, such acacia flowers taste better, and the fragrance of fully bloomed locust flowers will be much lighter, and there may be small insects.
1. After washing the locust flowers, blanch them in a pot, blanch them until the color of the locust flowers turns green, turn off the fire immediately, take out the locust flowers and put them in cold water to cool, so that the color of the locust flowers will remain green unchanged, and then take out the locust flowers and squeeze out the water and put them in a bowl.
2. Beat 3 eggs into the acacia flowers, then add an appropriate amount of salt and pepper to taste, and stir well with chopsticks.
3. Add oil to the hot pan, pour in the egg mixture, and then stir and fry with chopsticks constantly, fry until the egg liquid solidifies into a uniform egg piece, then turn off the heat and remove from the pot, and the deliciousness is ready!
Before the beginning of summer, hurry up and eat the "first fresh in May", fresh and nutritious, seasonal, dumplings or scrambled eggs are particularly fragrant, if you miss it, you have to wait for another 1 year. That's all for today's sharing, I'm Xiaofeng, if you like Xiaofeng's sharing, please help forward + like + collect to support Xiaofeng, we'll see you next time! Thank you for your support!
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