Xiangxi products | cold mix folded ear roots

I was resting at home on the weekend, suddenly the mobile phone rang, I picked it up and looked at it, it turned out to be a set of pictures sent by my friend "Bandit Sister", I looked at the eyes and couldn't help but make a sound: fold the ear root!

The bandit sister said: I dug, pure wild. I casually wrote down the joke: Divide me a little. Unexpectedly, she sent it to me in the evening.

The rhizomes of these folded ear roots sent by friends are the length of the tiger's mouth, and there are one or two young leaves on the roots, which look strong and fresh, which evokes my good memories of the folded ear roots.

Every spring when I was a child, my friends and I would make an appointment in pairs, take a small digging hoe, and go to the mountains to find the root of the broken ear. In the process of laughing and playing, we often harvest piles of folded ear roots. When we hand over the fresh origami ear roots we have dug up to the adults, there will be a long-awaited cold dish on the dinner table in the evening, which is both fun and delicious.

Houttuynia cordata is collectively known as folded ear root in western Hunan Province, most of which is used for cold dishes, and some are used for seasoning dishes, and I like its aroma very much. In the fields of my hometown, beside the road ditches, in the vegetable fields, etc., you can see the growth of folded ear roots everywhere. Their leaves are ovate, purple-red on the back, and their rhizomes are not tall and spread out on the ground. Every year in April and May, small flowers will bloom, either yellow or white. Whole herbs can be medicated, the rhizomes can be edible, cold mixed, can also be fried, soup or pickled, with a unique taste and rich nutrition.

The cold mixed vegetables made of folded ear roots have a kind of nose-flushing fragrance, and they have been popular in the food stalls in Xiangxi to this day. Its method is more special, washed and cut well, directly cold mixed. It must not be boiled with boiling water, because the taste of the burned ear root changes. When mixing cold, coriander should be added to make the taste more perfect.

It was easy to think of, not much like other coleslaws, so I decided to make my own plate. I first selected their old roots and knotted whisker roots, then rinsed the sediment with water, cut into small pieces and soaked in cold boiling water to remove the odor. After about an hour, I fished out the crucible ear roots, put them in a bowl, put the right amount of salt, marinated for ten minutes, and then continued to add oil peppers, vinegar, ginger, chicken essence, etc. I don't put the green onions, add the finely chopped coriander, stir well, a clear fragrance comes to the nose. I swallowed the saliva and put a little bit of chopsticks into my mouth, savoring it, and the aroma of my mouth made me a little intoxicated.

Eating market dishes and occasionally eating secondary game has a sense of returning to nature.

In order to better understand this plant, I found relevant information: Houttuynia cordata has a special fishy odor. When the flowers are in full bloom, the whole herb is picked into the medicine, and the taste is spicy and slightly cold. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, moisturizing, water draining, heat removal and other effects.