Nutritious pearl cabbage

Mondo Gastronomy Updated on 2024-01-31

Tree cauliflower: fungal wild plants, also known as pearl cauliflower, butterfly. It is a rare edible shrub and rare economic plant in China, a natural food without any chemicals, and enjoys the name of "vegetarian king", which is a pure natural green food with a crude protein content of 244%, rich in selenium. The taste is tender, boiled, fried, cold dressed, tea can be drunk, often eaten can lower blood lipids, coronary heart disease and women's postpartum blood stasis is not clean, the effect of dry cough, liver and kidney, cancer prevention and fitness and other effects.

Distribution area: Zhenba County, Shaanxi, Xiangning, Ji County, Pu County, Xi County and other places in Yunnan.

Every year from May to October, you can pick the tree cauliflower in any place where there are trees, and the local people eat this glory The history is also quite long, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" of Li Shizhen, the holy doctor of the Ming Dynasty, is also recorded.

Edible: After the tender flowers of pearl cabbage are picked, they are generally soaked in warm water for more than 20 minutes, filtered and then dried, and they become dried vegetables. When eating, soak in warm water, then rinse with water, stir-fry with meat, such as steaming with bacon, the taste is better. It has the characteristics of softness, fragrance and food resistance. It can also be directly made into braised pork or steamed pork with pearl cabbage.

Contraindications: Pearl cauliflower is cold, so it cannot be eaten with a cold stomach.

The production of pearl cauliflower has a history of more than 100 years, and it was during the Revolution that it became truly famous. After the Jute Uprising in November 1927 and the defeat of the Great Revolution, the Red Army retreated to the mountains, where there was not much food to eat, only a small number of sweet potatoes to satisfy hunger. Later the warriors found a small shrub plant, and it was huge in number, with a lot of young leaves on it. At first, they didn't know if they could eat it, so they ate branches and leaves in winter, and in spring they tried to pick the flowers on the trees to eat, and after eating for a while, they found that this flower was not only non-toxic, but also tasted good, and the Red Army soldiers were full of strength after eating it, and then they threw themselves into the battle of heroic killing, and since then this cauliflower has become famous here. Later, the Red Army called this flower pearl cabbage.

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