Introduction: It is mountain pepper, with its own pepper flavor, do not miss it when encountered in the mountains, 38 yuan 1 kg of stewed fish is particularly fragrant
In the mountains of the countryside, there are many wild fruits. In the past they were a snack for rural babies.
Now that the standard of living has improved, the snacks that can be eaten are already very rich, and the children do not go to the mountains to play much, so there are many wild fruits in the mountains, which are directly fed to birds, feed insects, or fall on the ground and rot.
In fact, many of these wild fruits are still very valuable. In some mountainous areas, no one wants them, and no one pays attention to them, but they are very sought-after in the city, and they are often sold for a pound more expensive than meat.
For example, the protagonist "Mountain Pepper" that Xiao Mao wants to introduce to you today is like this, this wild fruit is named because of its own pepper aroma.
It is found in many rural mountains, but no one picks it, and it is often rotted on the trees. But in the city, it is a very sought-after spice, and it will sell for more than 38 yuan a pound.
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Unlike other wild fruits in the mountains, mountain pepper grows very small and is not suitable for consumption as a fruit. And this wild fruit also has a peculiar fragrance.
For those who love it and know its value, mountain pepper is a treasure. What is not understood is the ordinary wild fruit, even the fruit of the tree is not picked.
Mountain pepper is a fruit of the lauraceae family, a small deciduous tree of the camphor family, which is also called wild pepper and mountain ginger in the folk, and the scientific name is wood ginger.
This is a very small wild fruit, a grape that looks very similar and has not yet grown. However, it grows small, but the skill is not small, this wild fruit generally blooms after the Qingming Festival, and then bears small fruits.
These small fruits begin to be green, and when they are ripe, they will become blue-black. It gives off a pepper-like fragrance, but it smells a bit like peppercorns. And if you put it in your mouth and chew it, you will also taste the spicy taste of ginger.
Because mountain pepper is a mixture of pepper, pepper and ginger flavors, it has been a popular spice since ancient times.
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The distribution of mountain pepper in China is mainly concentrated in the southern region, of which Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces are distributed.
And this plant has a strong vitality, can tolerate both barren and drought, basically not very picky about the environment in which it grows. However, it tends to grow in some mountain streams and mixed woods on the slopes of mountainous slopes.
Don't look at the mountain pepper is a small tree, but it can grow to five or six meters high. And its fruit yield is very high, and the fruit tree is densely packed with fruit. So if you go to pick, a tree can pick dozens of pounds of fresh fruit.
But in many places, it has not been taken very seriously. In June and July, when the pepper fruit is ripe, it is also hung on the tree and few people go to pick it. Only a very small number of people who know the goods will pick it and then eat it as a spice, which can directly replace spices such as pepper and pepper.
Especially when cooking meat and fish, put some mountain pepper to remove the fishy and flavorful, and can also make people's appetite greatly increased.
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In the city, you can sometimes see some people selling mountain pepper. As we all know, the price of general condiments is not cheap, and the same is true of these dried peppers, which generally sell for more than 38 yuan a pound, and are still very sought-after. When you meet people who know the goods, they often buy a lot at a time.
This is because first of all, although mountain pepper is wild, it has a mixed taste of pepper, pepper and ginger, and it does not taste as spicy as pepper, but the taste is more intense, which can stimulate people's taste buds more, thereby enhancing people's appetite.
Second, mountain pepper is currently pure wild. Although this wild fruit is a commonly used folk spice, it has always been wild and rarely cultivated. And wild spices, there is no spraying of pesticides, no fertilization, is a real natural green food, such spices are more rare.
Finally, it's simpler to eat. The way to eat mountain pepper is very simple, it can be eaten fresh or dried. Fresh mountain pepper can be put directly in when cooking vegetables, or when the strip is underneath, it is convenient to put a few grains.
If you can't finish eating, you can pick it back and dry it. Or boil it into mountain pepper oil, such a "sesame oil" taste is very strong, in the cooking, put a few drops under the strip, you can overflow with aroma, appetite.
It is worth mentioning that mountain pepper can not only be eaten as a spice, because it is rich in aromatic oil, but also as a food flavor, or as a cosmetic fragrance.
At present, it has been widely used in the raw materials of high-grade fragrances, ionone and vitamin A. And its seeds are also rich in fatty oils, which can be used for soap making and industrial use.
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In many mountainous areas, mountain pepper is an underappreciated wild fruit, and few people pick them. Only farmers in parts of Guizhou, Hunan, Xiangxi, Sichuan and other parts of the country will pick them in small quantities and eat them as spices. But they are only eaten by themselves, and they have not yet been promoted as commodities.
If you still have this wild fruit in your hometown, you should pay attention to it when you meet it in the mountains, and pick it back. And it doesn't hurt to pick more, after all, rotting on the tree is also rotting. And you can't finish eating them can be dried, or boiled mountain pepper oil, under the strip, when boiling fish put some, eat very fragrant.