Cauliflower, also known as cauliflower, cauliflower or cauliflower, is a cruciferous vegetable and a variety of cabbage. The head of cauliflower is a white inflorescence, similar to the head of broccoli. Cauliflower is rich in vitamin B and vitamin C, which are water-soluble and easy to dissolve when heated, so boiled cauliflower is not suitable for high-temperature cooking or boiling. Originated in China's coastal areas, its organs are white, short and tender buds, flower branches and floral axis. It is a kind of vegetable with less crude fiber content, fresh and tender quality, rich nutrition and delicious taste, which people like to eat.

Cooking method

Flower ball selection

1, the maturity is better if the flower ball is not scattered around.

2, the whiteness of the flower ball, with the flower ball white and yellowish, no odor, no hairiness is better.

Matters needing attention

1, cauliflower is rich in nutrition, but it often has pesticide residues, which makes it easy to get cauliflower insects, so you can soak cauliflower in salt water for a few minutes before eating, and cauliflower insects will come out, which can also help remove residual pesticides.

2. Chew more times when eating, which is more conducive to the absorption of nutrients.

3, do not use soy sauce for cold dishes, if you prefer the taste of soy sauce, you can add less soy sauce.

4. After blanching cauliflower and broccoli, put them in cold boiled water for cooling, then take them out and drain them for later use.

5, cooking and salting time should not be too long, so as not to prevent the loss and destruction of cancer nutrients.

Homemade menu

Bacon dishes Hua

Ingredients: cauliflower half a hand, broken into small pieces; Two or two pieces of bacon, sliced; Three dried peppers, cut into sections; Salt and monosodium glutamate are appropriate.

Practice: put oil in the pot and heat it to 60%. Stir-fry the dried Chili until fragrant, and add bacon slices for about one minute. Push the bacon to the side of the pot, pour in the cooked cauliflower (if you like crispy cauliflower, don't blanch it), add salt and fry for two minutes. Add monosodium glutamate, shovel evenly, and take out the pot.

Sauté ed flowers with mushrooms

Ingredients: cauliflower 250g, Lentinus edodes 15g, chicken oil 10g, chicken soup 100ml, peanut oil, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, onion, ginger and starch.

Practice: Wash the cauliflower, cut it into small pieces, put it in a boiling water pot and take it out; Soak mushrooms in warm water and wash them. Heat a wok, add peanut oil, stir-fry onion and ginger, add chicken soup, refined salt and monosodium glutamate, take out onion and ginger after boiling, add mushrooms and cauliflower, simmer for a while, thicken water starch, pour chicken oil on it, and serve.

Efficacy: benefiting qi and nourishing stomach, tonifying deficiency and strengthening body.

Usage: Take with meals.

Usage: It is suitable for anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea fatigue, and can also prevent and treat rickets.

Duck dishes Hua

Ingredients: duck breast, cauliflower, chopped green onion, cooking oil, cooking wine, salt, chicken essence and rice noodles.

Practice: Wash the duck breast cauliflower slices, chop them into small flowers, sit in a boiling water pot, simmer in the pot, remove cold water, control the water, and put the cooking oil in an iron pot for later use. When the oil is hot, the chopped green onion smells fragrant, then put the roasted cauliflower and duck breast into stir-fry and put the cooking wine, salt and chicken essence into the pot.

Nutritional efficacy

The nutrition of cauliflower is richer than that of ordinary vegetables. It contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, vitamins A, B, C, E, P, U and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Cauliflower is tender, sweet and delicious, easy to digest and absorb after eating, and its tender stem fiber is fresh and delicious after cooking, which is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, children and people with weak spleen and stomach and weak digestive function. Especially in the summer heat, when the mouth is dry, the urine is golden yellow, and the stool is hard or unsmooth, use 30 grams of cauliflower to decoct soup and drink it often, which has the effects of clearing heat, quenching thirst, diuresis and relaxing bowels.