What is prune? Dried prunes may be strange to friends in the north. It is a special product of South China, with high nutritional value, rich in magnesium, carotene and other elements beneficial to human body, and has the functions of promoting digestion and appetizing. Tell me specifically what prunes are.

What is prune? 1 1. Introduction of prunes

Simply put, prunes are a kind of dried vegetables, which southerners prefer to eat. Dried plums have high nutritional value. Dried plums are rich in carotene and magnesium necessary for human body. Dried plums can stimulate appetite and promote digestion. Dried plums can be made from many vegetables.

Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua, Lishui and Fuzhou in Jiangxi are called "dried plum vegetables", Taizhou in Zhejiang is called "dried plum vegetables" and Meizhou in Guangdong is called "dried plum vegetables". There are dried mustard tuber, dried rape, dried cabbage, dried winter vegetables and dried wild vegetables, most of which are homemade at home. The method is to dry the leaves, pile them into yellow, then add salt to pickle them, and finally dry them and put them in a jar.

Dried vegetable oil is yellow and black, fragrant, relieving summer heat, clearing viscera, resolving food stagnation, treating cough, promoting fluid production and appetizing. Therefore, Shaoxing residents must cook soup with dried vegetables every summer, which benefits them immensely. As for "Sliced pork with dried plum", it is a distinctive dish in Shaoxing and has been included in the China menu.

Second, the practice of dried plum vegetables

1. Clean the harvested fresh vegetables, dry them in the sun for about 5 days, and store them in a cool and ventilated place for 4-5 days.

2. When the leaves turn yellow-green and soft, cut the dry leaves into silk.

3. Put the shredded dried vegetables into the basin, sprinkle with salt and rub with your hands. When some vegetable juices ooze, put them in the clay pot.

4. Seal the casserole with shredded vegetables and store it in a cool place.

5. After pickling for half a month, you can find the lid of the earthenware pot and take out the finished dried prunes to eat. At this time, the vegetables become golden, salty and sour.

Third, how to eat dried plums?

Ingredients: pork belly, dried plums, stew.

Accessories: ginger and onion, braised soy sauce, June bean paste, sweet noodle paste, sugar color.

Practice,

1. Soak the dried plums in warm water one hour in advance and wash them.

2. Wash the pork belly and cut it into squares or smaller rectangles.

3. Stir-fry the chopped pork belly in a pot until the pork is completely discolored, then add braised soy sauce, bean paste, sweet noodle sauce and a little sugar to stir-fry until the sauce is evenly wrapped around the meat.

4. After frying, put a lot of boiling water into the pot. Do not completely exceed the amount of pork. After the water is boiled, add the onion and ginger slices, add the stew pot, add the appropriate amount of salt, add the prepared prunes and simmer slowly.

Eating prunes often has many benefits to human health. With the improvement of people's health awareness, people realize that how much money you have is not as important as having health, and putting health first in everything you eat. Eating prunes regularly is not only healthy, but also has a very special taste, which people who have never eaten prunes can't imagine, and their hearts are not as good as their actions.

Four, plum varieties

1, Zhejiang prune

Dried plum is a famous specialty in Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing, with a long production history. People in Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing usually pickle their own vegetables, which are often used as gifts for relatives and friends. As early as "Yue Zhong Bianlan", it was recorded that "dried plums are different from dried mustard, rapeseed and Chinese cabbage.

Mustard is delicious, rape is flat and cabbage is tender. It is used to cook ducks and barbecue, and has a unique flavor. Residents of Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing made it themselves. "It can be seen that the production of Shaoxing prunes was extremely common at that time.

According to the memories of the old people who made tribute dishes in the Qing Dynasty, such refined tribute dishes were supervised by Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing Magistrate and Shanyin County, with an annual weight of only 1,000 kilograms. The food altar was sealed with a yellow seal and transported to Beijing by special personnel. It is said that Emperor Qianlong visited Jiangnan six times and came to Shaoxing to taste the dishes and food markets made of tributes.

Now, not only Shaoxing farmers are almost self-made, but every household has it, which continues all year round. Cixi area in Ningbo mainly produces commercial dried prunes. The annual output of commercial prunes is more than 250 tons, which are exported at home and abroad.

2. Hakka prunes

Dried plum is a well-known Hakka local dish at home and abroad. In late autumn and early winter, the mustard in the garden is covered with moss. It has a thick thumb and a bud at the top. Shaped like autumn grapes, crisp and tender.

At this time, the village woman picked the cabbage (about 5 inches long) and hung it for a few days. When the leaves become soft, put them in a pot, sprinkle with salt and rub them with your hands. When some juice oozes out, put it into a pottery jar, sprinkle salt layer by layer, and seal the jar mouth with mustard leaves or bamboo shoots.

After half a month and twenty days, it was taken out and dried in the sun, and it became a dried plum dish with golden color, salty taste and special fragrance.

What is prune? 2 What are plums made of?

The materials used to make prunes in different regions are different. Common mustard, rape and cabbage are the main raw materials for making dried plums. In some areas, people still use them, and the dried plums made of these materials are similar in taste, very tough and particularly delicious.

Method for pickle authentic dried plum vegetable

1. Prepare pickled dried prunes, prune the whole plant, remove roots, then remove old leaves and dead leaves, and directly put them in the sun, 1 to 2 days, and turn them over 1 to 3 times in the sun. Fresh vegetables will wither when dried, that is, they will turn yellow when piled together.

2. It takes about seven days for vegetables to pile yellow. In the process of Dunhuang, they should be turned once every morning. If the temperature is too high, it needs to be turned once a night. In the cold winter, it is necessary to cover the vegetables in Dunhuang with sacks and straw bags to make them turn yellow as soon as possible.

3. After the yellow stacking of vegetables is completed, it should be sorted once, and its rotten leaves should be removed. After washing with clear water, put it in a ventilated place to dry the water on the surface. All the processed vegetables should be cut into pieces with a kitchen knife and then put in a jar. Add a layer of edible salt to each layer of vegetables and stack a heavy object.

Marinate for about 20 days, take it out and expose it to the sun. When the dried vegetables are completely dried, the dried plums are ready. Take it out when you want to eat and do it according to your own needs.

Dried prunes are the most common dried vegetables in southern China. In the past, poor living conditions were that prunes were a necessary dish for local families and a common dish on people's tables in winter. Until now, many people have a soft spot for prunes. So how should they be made at home?

How do families make dried plums?

1. When cooking prunes at home, you need to prepare fresh children's vegetables. When this vegetable is ready, you should trim the whole plant, remove the roots, old leaves and dead leaves. After finishing, put it in the sun to dry, and turn it frequently during the drying process.

2. Stack the dried products together and control the ambient temperature between 20 and 25 degrees. They will turn yellow quickly when heated. This step is called folding yellow. After children's vegetables turn yellow, they need to be washed with clear water, and then the water on the surface should be dried.

3. Cut all the stems and leaves of children's vegetables into 2cm segments, then put them into a pottery pickle jar, add a proper amount of edible salt, stir them with clean chopsticks, firmly compact the children's vegetables in the jar, and then marinate them in a cool place. After four or five days, the children's dishes inside can be pickled.

Children's vegetables should be taken out and dried after pickling. After drying, put it in a large pot, steam it in water, take it out after steaming, and then dry it. Repeated steaming for three or four times can get bright red prunes. At this time, dried plums will have an attractive fragrance.

5. After the dried plums are done, they can be stored in a cool and ventilated place. However, in the process of preservation, it should be often taken out and dried to avoid deterioration after moisture absorption. Dried plums should be soaked in water before use, and then cooked according to their own needs.