From the magnolia in early spring to the purple magnolia in mid-spring, it has always been a beautiful figure in the courtyard. The magnolia flowering period itself is not long, but there are many varieties of magnolia trees, and there are magnolias, pink magnolias, purple magnolias and topazes in terms of color alone. Different varieties of magnolia trees do not have exactly the same flowering time, and even the same variety of magnolias will have slightly different flowering periods in different places, which also allows us to appreciate its beauty throughout the spring.
Magnolia flowers in addition to ornamental, can also be edible, magnolia flower tea in our local has quietly emerged, can be made into a "tea", can also be processed with traditional tea, floral fragrance overflowing. Every spring, if you go to the mountains for a walk, the mountains are full of blooming magnolias, and I can't help but want to use it to make something delicious.
Magnolia flowers into the food, there are records of this for a long time, the Qing Dynasty "Flower Mirror" said: "Its (flower) petals are washed and cleaned, and the noodles are fried in sesame oil, or honey can be soaked." In addition to frying and honeysuckle, it is used to cook soup and porridge, stir-fry with meat, make desserts, mix salad, etc. are very delicious. Today we will use it to make a delicious, crispy and fragrant that people want to eat, let's take a look.
Ingredients: magnolia flowers, corn starch, flour, eggs, salt, cooking oil, baking powder.
Procedure steps:
Prepare magnolia flowers, semi-blooming flowers are best, the petals are more tender, fried out more delicious.
Magnolia petals need to be treated twice before being wrapped in paste, one is to poke a few holes in the petals with a toothpick, and the other is to tear a few small openings in the edge of the petals, and the petals that have been treated in this way will not come off the paste and will not bulge when fried.
40 grams of corn starch, 10 grams of flour, one egg, appropriate amount of water, 10 grams of vegetable oil, 1 gram of salt, 1 gram of baking powder, mix into a puff pastry.
After mixing, filter the batter and filter out the small dough that is not evenly mixed. It is better to use ice water and refrigerated eggs.
Sit in a pot and boil water, turn the oil to a low heat when it is 50%, and put the magnolia petals into the batter and wrap the batter evenly.
Fry in a frying pan for about half a minute, during which the petals need to be turned over. After that, it is ready to go.
The fried petals are crispy in the skin, and the petals have a slight bitter taste, which is very delicious.
In addition to magnolia flowers, the same method can also fry lotus flowers, dandelions flowers, etc., the following is my fried dandelion flowers, especially fragrant and delicious.
Dandelion flowers bloom in March and April, its flowering period is particularly short, but each plant has a particularly large number of flowers, a few years ago there were some plants in the yard, young seedlings and flowers can be eaten, roots can make tea, you can also do ornamental plants, very good. However, dandelion flowers have more pollen, and friends who are allergic to pollen should not eat it like this.
The specific method is the same as the fried magnolia flower, because the flowers are small, directly put into the batter and mix well, and then one by one.
A few more words:
Magnolia petals can be used as a small snack after frying, very delicious, this method to make a crisp paste, in addition to fried petals, in fact, need to hang paste fried food can also be used.
Magnolia flower contains volatile oil, has certain medicinal value, is rich in vitamins, amino acids and a variety of trace elements, has the effect of dispelling wind and cold, ventilation and lung management.