The most common vegetables, everyone will often think of is, cabbage, radish, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, etc., everyone has eaten, although they have eaten, but not necessarily all in place, such as peppers, usually when we go to the market to buy vegetables, the peppers we see are the fruits of peppers, no one has ever seen the leaves of chili peppers, in fact, even people who grow peppers may not have eaten the leaves of chili peppers. So can the chili leaves be eaten?
Many people like to eat chili peppers, but chili leaves can also be eaten as vegetables, presumably many people do not know. Its taste is sweet and tender, and the taste is good, which can be eaten as a green leafy vegetable. In recent years, as a popular vegetable, chili leaves have become popular in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia, and have become a best-selling food.
Pepper this vegetable in our country's planting history is not very long, but because of its strong adaptability, both north and south are planted, but the real like to eat peppers are also considered southerners, like Hunan people are generally no spicy and unhappy, so every household vegetable garden will plant some, some people in the city will also plant a few peppers on the balcony, the roof, which shows their love for peppers.
In fact, the pepper leaf is a natural high-calcium dish, many people do not know, its content is very high, there are not many people who know, so when people eat peppers, they will throw away the leaves of peppers.
This leaf of the pepper is indeed edible, and in Guangzhou, I have seen many people there eat the leaves of the pepper. Because the people over there can't eat spicy, they will choose to use the leaves of chili peppers. When I first saw it, it felt very strange, because on our side, the pepper leaves are usually thrown away.
Because it is not very spicy, some people will choose to use chili leaves as a dish, because the calcium content of chili leaves is also very high, so usually eat some chili leaves can also be a good calcium supplement, heard friends say that I really have a long insight, never knew that chili leaves can also have such a big effect.
How do chili leaves taste good?
1. Mix cold
First wash the pepper leaves to dry, then put them in a container, put some salt in it and stir well. Then put a layer of salt at the bottom of another cylinder, according to the method of a layer of salt, a layer of pepper leaves, put the chili leaves that have been stirred before in the jar, and then press firmly, and then seal for half a month, check in the middle, if there are yellow leaves, remove them in time. The pickled chili leaves are dark green, and when you eat them, you can drizzle a layer of sesame oil on them, which is salty and delicious, very delicious, and everyone can try it!
2. Cook the soup
Fresh chili leaves 150 g, 2 eggs. First use cooking oil to fry the shelled eggs yellow, add an appropriate amount of water, boil and then add chili leaves to cook, and finally add salt to taste; (Chili leaves and egg pulp stir-frying is also a simple and delicious diet. )
In addition, chili leaves can also be stir-fried vegetarian, stir-fried shredded meat and so on. If the chili leaves are boiled in chicken soup, pork liver soup, and fish soup, it tastes delicious and creamy, and it has a unique flavor.