Today, when Xiaobian went to the street, he found that the thorny diamond horn has been quietly "listed", and it is true that Dali has reached the season of the year to eat the wild thorny diamond horn in the Erhai Sea. In Dali, a city where "the weather is often like February and March, and the flowers and branches are constantly spring", there are countless delicacies, and in this season, of course, what you have to taste is the pure natural delicacy bred by the Erhai Sea - thorny horns.
I remember when I was a child, every time before and after the Torch Festival, my hometown had a special delicacy - thorny horns. There was no money to buy, so I waited until the Torch Festival, and my father gave me a "festival fee", and then rushed to the vegetable market to buy thorn horns and toys. Until now, in retrospect, it is full of happiness! Sometimes I also go to the sea to pick it myself, and the childlike fun of picking thorny diamond horns is still fresh in my memory.
Dali Thorn Lingjiao is mainly produced in the Erhai Sea, West Lake, Jian Lake, Maobi Lake and other major freshwater lakes. Each spring, it sprouts long leaves, the leaves are floating on the water, the leaf edges are serrated, and the middle of the petiole is more fat than the two ends; in summer, the flowers are small and white, with four petals. Autumn high and refreshing season, the water diamond is tired, is the season of picking diamond horn, at this time the diamond horn outer skin is hard and has tender thorns, the fresh diamond horn picked is rinsed clean, and then boiled in boiling water for a while, the shell can be eaten; at this time, the diamond horn flesh is white and tender, the food is sweet, and it is a food generally loved by the Bai people.
The reason why it is called Dali Thorn Diamond Horn is because it is unique to Dali and can only be eaten by coming to Dali. The diamond horns we buy elsewhere are either "large" or artificially cultivated. Dali's thorny horn is a product of the Erhai Sea, pure natural and wild delicacy.
Erhai is a vast plateau freshwater lake, and the unique environment makes the thorny horn delicious. Around the Torch Festival, it is the hottest time in Dali, and at this time of year, the thorny horn is on the market. The widow who sells this delicious food carries a basket on her back on a bright morning, paddles a simple boat into the shallow water area of the Erhai Sea full of thorny diamond horns, pulls out the leaves and painstakingly picks back a basket of green thorny horns, washes, boils in boiling water for 10 minutes, comes out of the pot, puts it into the insulated plastic film, puts it into the back basket, goes to the market...
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However, although the diamond horn is delicious, it definitely requires enough courage and skill to eat. The appearance of dali thorn diamond angle is really impossible to bite, on the small jujube-like large diamond-shaped fruit, there are four sharp large thorns and an inconspicuous small thorn, all directions make you unable to avoid, so each thorny diamond must find an angle to ensure that it can be bitten off without being stabbed, or very technical. The white flesh, if it is very tender, is watery and jerky, and if it is slightly old, it is crispy and sweet. That taste is the taste of my hometown!
Therapeutic effect of prickly horn
1. Tonify the spleen and strengthen the spleen, strengthen the knees, strengthen the strength and benefit the qi;
2. Anti-cancer, the alcohol infiltration solution of Lingshi has inhibitory effect on the degeneration of cancer cells and tissue proliferation;
3. Weight loss, rhomboid diuresis, milk, antidote toxicity, is an auxiliary food for weight loss;
4. Relieve skin diseases, assist in the treatment of children's head sores, yellow water sores on the head, skin warts and other skin diseases.