Jiangxi Province is definitely a low-key province among many provinces, and even Gan cuisine cannot be squeezed into the eight major cuisines. The status of Gancai is only revealed in Jiangxi, and people who have been to Jiangxi know that Jiangxi belongs to the land of heavy taste, spicy and salty, and the taste of the dish is basically salty and spicy.
Taste and the climate environment is closely related, Jiangxi is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Gannei many rivers and lakes, the climate is warm and humid, so Jiangxi people's eating habits prefer spicy salty and fresh and other strong tastes, Jiangxi's agriculture is developed, rich in products, Jiangxi has a famous dish quinoa fried bacon is made of quinoa and bacon marinated in March.
The taste of quinoa is well distinguished, has a peculiar smell, and is particularly strong. The difference between wild quinoa and planted quinoa is obvious, one is that the color of the leaf rod is not the same, the planted quinoa leaf rod is green, and the wild quinoa leaf pole is purple-red; the second is that the thickness is different, the planted quinoa stem is thick, and the wild quinoa stem is thin; the third is that the smell is obvious, the wild quinoa smells with a peculiar smell, the stir-fry is more obvious, and the planted quinoa smells much weaker.
There is a folk proverb that circulates: January quinoa, February artemisia, March and April as firewood. It means that after eating quinoa, it is impossible to eat it, and some people say that it is a vegetable in March and a grass in April. Wild Quinoa is a rare spring flavor on the table, mainly because the number of wild Quinoa is small, more and more difficult to find, because its growth is inseparable from the environment, must rely on wilderness, swamp, wetland, and now the growth of wild Quinoa is developed into an economic forest or fish pond, which is the reason why it is difficult to find.
Of course, if there is still a place for it to live, it is a large piece to find it. Now the price of wild quinoa is not cheap, and a pound of wild quinoa is sold for more than a dozen dollars a pound in the market;
Artemisia quinoa belongs to the plant of the Asteraceae family Artemisia, with its own aroma, the main edible part is its tender stem, the tender stem can be pinched with a fingernail to lead to the identification of its old or tender, the tender pinch will be broken, the old one can not be pinched. Quinoa can be fried bacon, fried sausage, quinoa fried bacon with the unique aroma of quinoa combined with the bacon flavor, people who rejoice in this smell have no resistance to this dish.
Wild quinoa has a short consumption period and is outdated for the coming year. Therefore, if you see quinoa in the market, you can buy it and eat it, which is also a special smell of spring. Stir-fried with it, crisp and tender, very tasty.
Stir-fried sausage with wild quinoa
Ingredients
Wild Artemisia annua sausage raw soy dried pepper salt
Step by step
Remove the leaves of wild quinoa and wash them for later use, and wash the sausages for later;
Slice the sausage, cut the quinoa into sections;
Stir-fry the sausages in oil until discolored;
Pour in the quinoa and stir-fry
Add salt, soy sauce, dried peppers, a little water, quickly stir-fry and out of the pan;
This dish is super simple to make, if you use quinoa to fry bacon, the bacon needs to be soaked in advance to remove the salty taste, but also to make the meat a little softer.
In addition to Jiangxi like to eat quinoa, Hubei people Anhui people will eat quinoa in the spring, it is said that the most powerful province hubei people who eat quinoa, they are super love quinoa, a year will eat a lot of quinoa artemisia.