Pepper leaves are the leaves of the pepper tree, this collocation is very common in our local folk, most of the people in their own yard will plant a two pepper trees, stir-fry pumpkin when picking a handful of leaves chopped into the pot, fragrant, very delicious. I have always thought that the peppercorn leaves are delicious with fresh, yesterday a friend gave me a bag of dried peppercorn leaves, which found that the original dried leaves are more fragrant.
There are many ways to eat peppercorn leaves, when I was a child in my hometown, my mother put chopped and peppercorn leaves into the batter to make pancakes, the aroma is particularly attractive; when the peppercorn tree sprouts in the spring, the plucked young buds are salted and pickled, and you can eat directly; or hang the pepper leaves under the pan and fry, crispy and fragrant.
A friend's house is a restaurant, and the pepper leaves she saves are for use in her own restaurant, stewed meat to cook soup or mashed to make seasonings, the flavor is unique, everyone likes to eat. Pepper leaves into the dish, in our local is very common, folk with pumpkin (almost will not appear in other vegetarian dishes), belongs to the niche cuisine, is also a very special collocation, like you also try it. Below we share the method of sautéing pumpkin with peppercorn leaves.
Ingredients: 1 piece of pumpkin, 1 handful of peppercorn leaves, a few garlic, oil, salt.
Material description: Pumpkins are the best with home-grown local pumpkins, of course, old pumpkins bought in supermarkets are also OK. Fresh or dried leaves can be used, its aroma is different from pepper, the aroma is stronger and there is almost no numbness.
Procedure steps:
Prepare various materials. The amount of pepper leaves should not be too much, and the pepper leaves in the picture are only half the amount.
This pepper leaf is dried, pluck the pepper leaf from the tree, wash it and put it directly in the sun to dry, the pepper leaf on the board, with a knife rough cut a few times for later. For ease of preservation, sun-dried peppercorn leaves can also be mashed in sealed jars.
The pumpkin is washed and cut into moderately thick slices without peeling. Pat the garlic loosely chopped.
Pour the oil in a frying pan, heat the oil and sauté the minced garlic and pumpkin leaves to bring out the aroma.
Stir-fry the pumpkin, during which you need to add water to cover the pot, fry the pumpkin well, season with salt and then come out of the pot. The varieties of pumpkins are different, the taste will also be different, no matter what kind of pumpkin, with pepper leaves, fried out are particularly delicious.
A few more words:
Pumpkin is a dish is also a multigrain, dinner fried a large plate of pumpkin, you can appropriately reduce the amount of staple food, so eating is also very healthy. It is recommended to fry pumpkin without too much oil.