In Zhao County, Hebei Province, we are called hemp lettuce, hemp lettuce is much more famous than its scientific name. Hemp lettuce is the local people's favorite wild vegetables, it leaves green, stalk red, flower yellow, root white, son of the black allegory five colors in one. People also called it five lines of grass. Folk also hemp lettuce is a long life vegetable, sun does not die of the saying, refers to this wild vegetable is very drought-resistant, strong vitality.

There are many ways to eat amaranth. In difficult times, most people ate cornmeal-based coarse grains, and only on New Year's holidays could they afford to use white bread for dumplings. Three meals a day even eat cornmeal should be mixed with some wild vegetables, wild vegetables how to eat with it, the most common is to wrap the vegetable dumplings. People in the day of three volts, picked hemp lettuce washed, blanched in a pot of boiling water until the break, and then on the room to dry, that is, the main filling into the cabbage dumplings.

How do you eat sun-dried amaranth? One is to wrap vegetable dumplings. Soak sun-dried lettuce, dried radish shreds, and dried cranberry tassels, then chop them up and add them to diced pickled tofu, dregs of oil, and vermicelli, and mix them well. The cornmeal is scalded with boiling water to make a half-cooked crust, then the scalded cornmeal is pulled into a dosage, kneaded in the hand, wrapped in the filling, and rolled into a vegetable dumpling, which is then steamed in a pot. In this way, with lettuce and hemp as fillings, coarse grains can be eaten with flavor.

Secondly, buns and dumplings. Dried amaranth is soaked in warm water and washed, then chopped with cabbage. With oil residue, meat filling various seasonings stirred into a filling, steamed buns, dumplings are good.

The third is to slip the bitterness and fatigue. Dry amaranth soak or just pick back with hemp lettuce, wash and cut, then mix with cornmeal or mixed grain noodles, add water to stir half-wet, steamed on a cage drawer, mixed with vinegar and garlic to eat, the local people tube this way of eating is called distillation of bitterness, both full stomach and relieve cravings.

Today, some of our local restaurants specialize in pork buns with lettuce. Many diners like to order a portion of hemp lettuce buns with a bowl of millet porridge after drinking, they are not nostalgic, they really want to taste the long-lost countryside, a change of taste.

Although the horse tooth water pipe can be found everywhere in the countryside and even urban green space, the usual can't be more common, but I have to say that the horse tooth water pipe is really a good thing it!

The proper way to handle amaranth

In the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, the concoctions of Amaranthus are described in detail: harvested in summer and fall, the stubs and impurities are removed, washed, cut into sections and dried, which can be slightly steamed or scalded and then dried in the sun or kang-dried.

The control of water content of Chinese medicine is relatively strict, which is on the one hand for drying and not deteriorating, which is good for preservation, and on the other hand for easy transportation. Therefore, the general water content should not exceed 9.0%, that is to say, it should be fully sun-dried.

Note: It is the dried above ground part of the amaranth that is really useful, not the root, so cut off the root.

efficacy

The Chinese Pharmacopoeia describes the effects of Amaranthus as follows: cold in nature with a slightly acidic flavor, it is attributed to the liver and large intestine meridians. It can clear away heat and detoxify, cool the blood and stop bleeding, and stop dysentery. The main treatment of carbuncle boils, eczema, dengteng, snake and insect bites, blood in the stool, hemorrhoidal blood, leakage of blood and so on. In the countryside, the summer was bitten by the insect bag, a very common method is the fresh amaranth crushed in the affected area, swelling and pain, because the amaranth is the most good carbuncle detoxification heat.

The right way to eat

From the point of view of dietary nutritional balance, if you dry the horse-teeth water pipe and then eat it, the nutrients will be lost more, as a vegetable consumption, certainly not as good as fresh use. However, from the point of view of clearing heat and cooling the blood, the sun-dried horse-teeth water pipe is more effective.

How to eat sun-dried

Dried as a dish to eat, you need to soak and soften before use, the better way to eat, for example, just like dried mustard greens buckle meat, made of dried mustard greens buckle meat; soaked and directly stir-fried meat is also quite good. It is also very good when soaked and stir-fried. If it is made into bun stuffing with other ingredients, it also has a different flavor. People who like to eat horse chestnut like to eat it any way. Those who don't like it reluctantly eat it, and it's not much fun.

Fresh serving method

Nowadays, fresh amaranth is also sold in city food markets. As a vegetable, there are more ways to eat it, it can be fried or cold. Just need to be reminded that the content of oxalate is relatively high, you should blanch before eating, to remove most of the oxalate before eating.

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Amaranthus, also called melaleuca, sorrel, and horse tongue, was also called hemp rope and grasshopper greens by the old Beijingers.

It is a delicious and nutritious wild vegetable that is crisp and flavorful when cooled. However, the Health and Knowledge Bureau suggests that it is best not to just pick leafy vegetables in the wild to prevent picking and eating poisonous wild vegetables.

According to the 2015 edition of China's Chinese Pharmacopoeia, amaranth is slightly acidic in flavor and cold in nature. It can clear heat and detoxify, cool blood and stop dysentery. It can be used to alleviate the treatment of fever and blood dysentery, carbuncle and swollen sores, eczema, dengtoxin, snake and insect bites, blood in stools, hemorrhoidal blood, and bleeding from disintegration and leakage, and other diseases.

Amaranth boiled water can also be used externally, against eczema has quite good therapeutic effect. Modern pharmacological research has shown that amaranth is also anti-inflammatory and antibacterial, hypolipidemic, anti-aging and other medicinal values.

And the nutritional value of amaranth is also very high. According to research, the protein content of amaranth is 3.1%, which is relatively high compared to the protein content of fruits and vegetables that people often eat, and is five times higher than that in pumpkin, making it quite an ideal vegetable for protein supplementation.

In addition to the rich protein content in amaranth, amaranth is also rich in VC and VE, and the content is higher than the general vegetables. There is also carotene content is as high as 42mg/kg, which is 10 times higher than leek. Because of its nutritional richness, amaranth was also included in the Beijing Olympic Games menu in 2008.

Amaranth, like capers, is a common field vegetable, amaranth looks unassuming, but it is a "fig. there is no clear-cut distinction between food and medicine"The ingredients, taken internally and applied externally haveClearing heat and removing toxins, dispersing blood and reducing swellingThe effects of. Amaranth is rich in vitamins and many minerals, which are rich in metanephrines and potassium salts that have aRegulates blood sugar, blood pressure and protects the heartThe role of the

Sun-dried amaranth can be washed and soaked after theCooking, stuffing, pie makingEat. Condition similar to dried plums.

Amaranth is generally eaten in these ways in our area, so I hope this helps!

1. Amaranth Egg Cake

Ingredients: dried amaranth, eggs, flour, green onions, salt moderate amount

Production Steps:

(1) Wash the dried amaranth, soak it in advance, squeeze out the water and cut it into small pieces. (Remove some of the old stalks if there are any, so as not to affect the flavor)

(2) Chop the scallions into small pieces and set aside.

(3) Beat amaranth, scallions, and salt into 1 egg, slowly add flour, and mix to form a slightly thicker batter.

(4) Brush the pan with oil, scoop a spoonful of batter, rotate the pan to spread it out and fry until both sides are golden brown.

(5) The resulting amaranth egg pancakes are fragrant and delicious to look at!

2、Scrambled Eggs with Amaranth

Production Steps:

(1) Wash and soak the dried amaranth in advance, squeeze out the water and cut into small pieces.

(2) Scrambled eggs with amaranth are ready.

3. Steamed Pork with Amaranth

Production Steps:

(1) Wash and soak the dried amaranth in advance, squeeze out the water and cut into small pieces.

(2) Cook the pancetta whole, then cut into thin slices and transfer to a bowl.

(3) When the frying pan is hot, add garlic and sauté until raw, season with soy sauce and salt.

(4) Pour the amaranth with the broth over the sliced pork and steam for half an hour until it tastes good.

(5) Sprinkle chopped green onion on top and serve.

Used as filling for buns and dumplings

Production Steps:

(1) Soften and rinse the dried amaranth, squeeze out the water and chop.

(2) Dice meat and saute, add onion, ginger and garlic until browned.

(3) Add the amaranth and wine, stir-fry and mix well, the filling is ready.

(4) Can be used for bun and dumpling filling.

Dried Amaranthine Tea

Take 15-20 grams of dried amaranth, brew or smother in boiling water and drink when the water is at the right temperature.

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All year round, spring, summer and fall are the seasons for harvesting and drying amaranth, and right now winter is the time to enjoy dried amaranth. Three main ways to eat it in general:

⒈ most is to do dishes. Traditional amaranth to do dishes, or belong to the "medical food" awareness of the scope of how to do dishes to eat is to take it to clear heat and detoxification of the medicinal properties, and there are no side effects, taste and flavor is also very popular. Do the most dishes are also the main three: ① stir-fry, like big oil, suitable for meat and eggs with vegetables; ② steamed vegetables, as used with the same plum dishes, steamed out of the flavor is more chic than the dried plum dishes; ③ buns.

Steps to cook with dried amaranth: The key step is to soak it beforehand, wash it and then squeeze out the water. For example, fried meat, five-flower meat thinly sliced, with green pepper, garlic cloves. First onion and ginger burst the pan, under the meat slices fried until rolled, to the green pepper continue to stir fry, give salt, soy sauce, amaranth, stir fry until the dry flavor out, to the garlic cloves section, turn a few times out of the pan.

Pieces of cake and then the soup. Chic is a fish soup. Small hairy fish cleaned, coated in batter and fried through to golden brown. To make the soup, boil water in a pot, give the fish onion, ginger and liqueur, boil and give the amaranth for five minutes on medium heat. Add salt to taste, give pepper, vinegar and cilantro to the soup pot.

3 bubble tea. Tea like brewing and drinking, the flavor is a gap compared to tea, but in the body's needs, brewing this to drink the effect of clearing heat and detoxification than the tea to come quickly.

Rural roadside or field will often grow a lot of inconspicuous amaranth, which in the eyes of the city people are some grass, but in the eyes of the rural people is a treasure, many people like to dry amaranth to save, and then stay in the winter to eat, today to see how to eat after the drying of amaranth water pipe and some of the efficacy of it!

How to eat sun-dried water chestnut?

1. steamed meat snack

Soak the sun-dried amaranth in water for a day or two, after which cut it into small pieces and set it aside, then chop the meat into large pieces and set it aside, then prepare some ingredients, such as chopped green onion and ginger, and finally put the amaranth into the meat when it is fried for seven or eight minutes and then it will be ready.

2. Make the bun filling

Sun-dried amaranth is also very good as a filling for buns or dumplings, but since amaranth prefers oil, it's best to combine it with meat. To do this, soak the dried amaranth in advance, mince it with the meat, and mix well.

3. Eat with stir-fried vegetables

The easiest way is to eat sun-dried amaranth directly fried, the same need to soak the amaranth first, wash, can add a small amount of meat, and then cook it can be, usually 5-6 minutes can be fried.

Secondly, what are the effects of horse chestnut?

In the countryside amaranth has another name: longevity vegetable, from this name you can know that amaranth's efficacy is very obvious, very helpful to the human body, generally can play the function of lowering blood pressure and anticancer, preventing heart disease, disinfecting and sterilizing, and beautifying and nourishing the face.
Amaranth is delicious and has many benefits, but some people who don't recognize amaranth often confuse it with other plants, so do you know amaranth? Have you ever eaten vegetables fried with amaranth?

According to Chinese medicine, amaranth is cold and sour in nature, with the function of clearing away heat and detoxification, inducing diuresis, dispersing blood and eliminating swelling, and killing insects and bacteria. It is rich in nutrients, is a kind of high protein, low carbohydrate wild vegetables, known as "longevity grass" reputation.

The whole herb of Amaranthus is used as medicine, which has the efficacy of clearing away heat - detoxification, benefiting the qi, moistening the intestines, dispersing the blood, eliminating swelling, and stopping dysentery. It can be used internally to treat various diseases such as enteritis and dysentery, and is one of the effective herbs for preventing dysentery and diarrhea, and externally it can be used to treat carbuncles, canker sores, hemorrhoids, eczema, dermatitis and so on. Modern medical research shows that amaranth has antibacterial effect, dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus, E. coli and staphylococcus aureus have a certain inhibitory effect, known as "natural antibiotics" of the name, non-toxic side general use.

Studies in the relevant literature suggest that Amaranthus may have the following effects:

I. Lowering blood sugar. Eating amaranth often has a therapeutic effect on diabetes. Because amaranth contains high concentration of norepinephrine, norepinephrine can promote insulin secretion, regulate the process of sugar metabolism in the human body, with the role of lowering the concentration of blood glucose and keeping blood glucose stable.

Second, lowering blood pressure, protecting blood vessels and heart. There are three reasons: First, amaranth contains a lot of potassium, the human body intake of potassium, through the body reaction into the blood, direct action on the blood vessel wall, reduce the Na in the myocardium to gather, increase the power to push the blood, expand the blood vessel wall, prevent the arterial wall from thickening, the blood vessels and its protective effect, you can prevent and reduce the risk of stroke caused by high blood pressure. Secondly, because amaranth contains omega-3 fatty acid, due to the omega-3 fatty acid has the effect of lowering blood fat and blood viscosity, preventing atherosclerosis, delaying the formation of blood clots, and can effectively prevent the occurrence of coronary heart disease and obesity. Thirdly, due to the amaranth contains a lot of vitamin E, vitamin C carotene and glutathione and other anti-aging effective ingredients, often eat can prevent platelet coagulation three, poly, coronary artery spasm and thrombosis, so as to effectively prevent coronary heart disease, protect the heart.

Fourth, auxiliary treatment of vitiligo. Amaranth is rich in copper, free copper in the body is an important component of tyrosinase, regular consumption of amaranth can increase the density of melanocytes in the epidermis and melanocytes tyrosinase activity, is vitiligo patients and due to the lack of copper caused by patients with early whitening of the beard and hair as a complementary dietary therapy.

Amaranth can be eaten both fresh and dried, frozen for storage, pickled, stir-fried, made into soups, stuffed, or cold.

I hope the above answer can help you.

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I. Understanding Amaranth

1. Amaranth belongs toAn annual herb of the family Amaranthaceae. Since in ChinaIt is widely distributed. So there are many names such as: horse amaranth, five lines of grass, long life vegetable, five square grass, melon vegetable, hemp rope vegetable, horse tooth vegetable, grasshopper vegetable and so on, of course, friends you there are other names? Please do not hesitate to give advice, thank you!

2, Morphology: Amaranthus belongs to the family of AmaranthaceaeHerbs annual. The whole plant shows creeping growth. Leaves: flattened, oval in shape, the leaves are plump and shiny, light green or slightly pale red in color. Flowers: relatively small, sepals bright green, petals yellow, flowering period May-August. Fruit:Capsule, ovoid in shape, seeds tiny, black and shiny.Fruiting period June-September。

3, distribution: should be one of the more widely distributed plants in China. Rural areas are mainly used to feed pigs wild vegetables. In fact, the farmers are the amaranth as a weed, there is no online said so high. Hahaha. SoIt can often be found in vegetable gardens, farmland, and along roadsides in the vast lands of China.

Second, share the method of sun-drying amaranth - especially good for

Normally, people store amaranth usually dry it directly in the sun, or blanch it in hot water and then hang it to dry. The result of this is that bare branches are left, and even if they are dried in the sun, they taste the same.

1, pick the amaranth, wash with water, drain and set aside.

2, start the pot pour water, put grate, wait for the water to open, put the washed amaranth, put into the steamer, remember to steam the time to grasp 3 - 5 minutes can be, start the pot, time is long, the leaves fall off. The branches are sticky.

3, the steamed amaranth, take out, drying in, balcony or outdoor under the sun, 3 --- 5 days, because drying is rainy season, do not rain, rain is easy to produce mold.

4, after drying, with a plastic bag to keep or glass bottle to keep, eat when in take out, divided and eat.

III. Dry eating

1, cold: hot water soak, cut into small sections, prepare a number of garlic, and then hot pot of peanut oil or soybean oil, do not use sesame oil, friends can try, the flavor is far worse than these two oils. When the oil smoke, pour the oil into the cut amaranth above, and then into the garlic, a delicious feast of wild vegetables can be appetizing. Hahaha

2、It is also good to drink in water.

3, wrapping dumplings, wrapping large meat buns is also good, a delicious winter.

4. MedicinalIt reduces blood cholesterol concentration and improves the elasticity of blood vessel walls, which is beneficial in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The whole herb is used to treat dizziness and dizziness. Cure lung-heat cough. Treating diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhagic. The whole herb is mainly used in the treatment of enteritis, diarrhea, dysentery, nephritis, urinary tract infections, edema, ulcer disease, bleeding hemorrhoids, sore throat, toothache and so on bar.

A few times I have seen this kind of question and had the urge to answer it, but in the end I held back. This time, as I was reading the Analects of Confucius, I saw that Confucius said, "If it can be tolerated, it cannot be tolerated", so I am not going to tolerate it anymore!

How do you eat sun-dried amaranth?

First of all, you need to eat by mouth, injections and nasal feeding are not suitable.

Secondly, if you really do not know how to eat, grab a handful of dry chewing in the mouth, a few times later, you will be able to learn how to eat sun-dried amaranth, and thus do not need to ask such a profound question. This way of eating there is another advantage, that is, can exercise the human biting muscle, biting muscle a strong, not only can increase the human chewing power, promote digestion, but also can make people close their mouths tight, not easily open.

After such a period of exercise, you will slowly realize: sun-dried amaranth, just like any other green vegetables, you can eat how you want, can be stuffed, can be stewed ...... is nothing particularly worthy of nerves worth of precious things, do not need to offer up to make their own hands and feet.

After such an experience, you have not only learned how to eat amaranth, but also accomplished a spiritual elevation! Isn't it like hitting the rabbit with the grass and killing the rabbit in one fell swoop?

Once you learn how to eat amaranth, the next step in understanding what amaranth is good for is a snap.

You'll find that this stuff can feel like a full meal that's holding you up; if you eat it several times in a row, you may also get heartburn, which is a much worse feeling than a full meal.

When I was a child, I heard about the beautiful legend of the amaranth sun does not die, that is because the amaranth in critical situations, save the sun; I also heard the mouth of the Chinese medicine practitioner amaranth such and such a miraculous effect, but I do not believe them.

This is not a compulsion by Lu Xun, but entirely his own personal realization.

My old home, in the great plains of Huaibei, where, well, there was plenty of this stuff. Therefore, it has never enjoyed the respectable treatment in the city. My township party, the pronunciation is ancient, directly call it "horse shit vegetable", I do not know whether to say that it loves to grow in the horse dung heap, or to describe its lowly, like horse manure, not to be seen? Of course, it may also be a variation of the pronunciation of "马齿菜".

In that "evil old society", my poor father, can not eat less of this stuff, the result, died early. To me here it, the family is poor, and catch three years of natural disasters, also did not eat this stuff, the result, so that I mention it, the stomach also acid, from time to time to run to the hospital.

So, like the front of a few "people" and TV stop some "experts" said that it has such and such a magical effect, I can use two generations of personal experience to tell you: I do not feel at all!

If you had to look for its divine effect, it would have to be:Eating more of it can turn you into a heartburn haystack!

The "Analects" at hand is writing "...... says:If you are rich, how can you add to it? Say:Teach it!"

After all, they are saints!