Speaking of Leshan specialties, it is necessary to mention one of our specialty signs: sprouts. It is fresh greens cut into shreds, dried until the remaining leaves gradually dried, and then marinated with ingredients, the main features are fresh, fragrant, crisp, sweet and tender, commonly used as sprouts buckle meat, burning noodles, Hongqiao pork dumplings, dried sautéed four seasons beans, meat slice soup and other important condiments of Niuhua specialties, is a special product with strong regional characteristics, but also because of its convenient consumption, low price and deeply loved by the people of Rongcheng.
Sprouts
Yesterday, we walked into Santa Village, Niuhua Town, and visited the whole process of making traditional handmade sprouts. Along the way, the harvested greens are dried in front of the houses or in the open space everywhere, full of green, and many villagers are busy harvesting their own vegetables in their fields, waiting for someone to collect them.
Shred the sprouts
Harvest sprouts
Sprouts harvesting
Sprouts to remove leaves
The harvested greens are first cut in half with a knife, and then the greens are made into strips by means of homemade scalloped steel mesh forks for easy drying. "Like these two days, the weather is good, so we all rush to collect the vegetables to get it right, and these days are like today's big sun, if you dry it for 3 or 4 days." An old villager surnamed Lei, who was working in the field, replied.
The sprouts are dried
Then go inside, far away to see rows of green vegetables hanging high, the "big households" here can reach the maximum output of 20,000-30,000 pounds of pickled sprouts, which if converted into green vegetables is millions of pounds! Next, we went to a villager's house to watch the sprouts pickling process. There are three 6 and 7 cubic meter cement tanks at the entrance of the villagers' house, which are used to specially pickle sprouts.
Ordinary villager sprouts are pickled
"100 pounds of green vegetables will use 15 pounds of salt, less salt is not easy to preserve, the dish will rot, salt is more salty, affecting the taste." The best pickled sprouts are sealed in a jar for more than a year without breaking. Every Year in March, is a good time to harvest greens, many families in our village are doing this, after the pickling will be special people to collect, last year is a pound of 1 yuan to buy. This year's production is higher than last year's, and the exact price is not clear, but we estimate that it will be slightly lower than last year, maybe 8 or 9 cents a pound. The villager surnamed Hu, who took us to visit his home, said.
Because the sprouts in the village are of high quality and pollution-free, they are widely loved by consumers.