In February, as soon as the rain season passes, the south ushers in the first fresh of early spring - shepherd's cabbage.
Shepherd's cabbage is a very common wild vegetable that can be found everywhere in rural areas, hillsides, wastelands, and field edges. It looks like an inconspicuous weed, but it is actually a very valuable wild vegetable.
After a winter of incubation, the early spring shepherd's cabbage grows young leaves, the taste is fresh and tender, the taste is extremely delicious, and its nutritional value is so high, it is called "the first fresh in spring".
In fact, there are many wild vegetables in spring, but the earliest wild vegetable is the shepherd's cabbage, so the shepherd's cabbage is often called "primrose".
In fact, our older generation of people, the love for shepherd's cabbage is engraved in the DNA, as early as thousands of years ago, the ancients began to dig small wild vegetables to eat, "Book of Songs" is recorded:"Who's suffering? It's as sweet as a camelina. It means that whoever said bitter herbs are bitter, I think they are as sweet as shepherd's cabbage, which has a high opinion of shepherd's cabbage.
The nutritional value of shepherd's cabbage is very high, as the saying goes: "spring food shepherd's cabbage sailingdan", shepherd's cabbage is rich in protein, dietary fiber, vitamins, carotene, minerals, etc.
The value of shepherd's cabbage is more than that, according to traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, spring is the season of nourishing the liver, and there is a record in the "Famous Doctor's Directory": "Shepherd's cabbage is mainly beneficial to the liver qi, and in harmony".
However, there are too many weeds similar to shepherd's cabbage, and it is really difficult for those who don't understand it to tell when they go to the wild. But there are many rural aunts and uncles who will pick shepherd's cabbage and sell it in the market. So if you meet this "first freshness of spring", don't miss it, buy a ten catty, fresher than leeks, and store it in the refrigerator to retain the freshness of this spring.
Share the recipe for shepherd's cabbage: Shepherd's cabbage shrimp tofu soup
Prepare the shepherd's cabbage, handle the shepherd's cabbage, blanch it once, then squeeze out the water and chop it for later use. Cut the tofu into cubes, then remove the shells of the shrimp and clean it, add some salt, pepper and cooking wine to the shrimp and mix well, marinate and prepare.
Heat the oil, add the shrimp and fry until the shrimp change color.
Then pour in an appropriate amount of hot water, bring to a boil over high heat, add some cooking wine to remove the smell, then add tofu, bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes.
Put the chopped shepherd's cabbage into the pot and continue to cook for 2 minutes to bring out the umami flavor of the shepherd's cabbage.
Add a spoonful of salt and a little monosodium glutamate to taste, and finally pour in an appropriate amount of water starch to thicken and thicken, and you can get out of the pot.