Suaeda grass, in the soil name of Panjin is "salt barren vegetables", "barren alkali vegetables" or "salt sucking vegetables". On the palate it has a slightly bitter taste. It grows on saline soil, takes root and sprouts every spring, grows lush in summer, and gradually turns from green to red in autumn. Panjin was dressed up with the famous wonder of the world - Red Beach.
Suaeda grass is a treasure all over the body, and it is a pollution-free plant containing amino acids, high protein, vitamins, high organic iron and other nutrients. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, diuretic and drenching, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, improving digestion, invigorating blood and removing blood stasis. It has the effects of relieving dysmenorrhea, anti-allergic, assisting in anti-tumor, dilating blood vessels, improving sleep, lowering blood sugar and blood pressure, preventing and treating heart disease and enhancing human immunity.
Suaeda grass can be eaten in a variety of ways. In the past, Panjin people often burned Suaeda salsa into ashes, extracted alkali, and used this to make noodles, and the noodles made were very glutenous. Suaeda seeds can not only be squeezed for oil, but also can be cooked in a pot, and the aroma is overflowing, which is comparable to the aroma of sesame seeds. Suaeda grass can also be cold, fried, and made into soup, with a soft taste, fragrant and refreshing, and the taste of seafood.
Suaeda vegetable dumplings are Panjin's special food snacks. The vegetable dumplings made of Suaeda salsa, a local specialty of Panjin, have a unique farmhouse flavor to eat. The main ingredients of Suaeda dumplings are minced meat, Suaeda foam, eggs, shrimp and other ingredients.
In the past, fishermen on the beach picked it home and mixed it with cornmeal steamed buns, which once filled the belly of that generation. Nowadays, with the development of the times and the improvement of people's quality of life, in order to prevent disease and fitness, Suaeda vegetable dumplings have naturally become people's favorite.