Minnan people call a vegetable head radish. Hearing the word sauerkraut, many people are already swallowing. Although it is called pickled cabbage head, it tastes crisp and delicious, sweet and sour, and it is definitely not an ordinary snack. Whether it is a native of Quanzhou or a foreign compatriot in Quanzhou, sauerkraut head is no stranger to them, and streets and alleys can be seen everywhere.

Caitousuan is a traditional food in southern Fujian, which is made of white radish, white vinegar, sugar and other ingredients. Sauerkraut heads are easy to make, but it is not easy to make delicious vegetable heads sour.

Then, what about crispy, sweet and sour vegetable heads?

If you want to make a tender, juicy and delicious sauerkraut head, you must work hard on choosing radish. Bite it with high water content, no fiber feeling and fresh taste, which is a better ingredient. In addition to some basic production techniques such as radish selection, slicing and soaking, the materials used are also very particular.

The specific method of vegetable head acid:

Ingredients: one white radish.

Accessories: salt, sugar, white vinegar and cold water.

1, select high-quality white radish, clean it, cut it into small squares and slice it evenly; Radish doesn't need to be peeled. The head with skin tastes crisper and tastes better. )

2. Pour a proper amount of cold boiled water into a special container, add radish, add seasoning (salt, sugar, vinegar), stir evenly with chopsticks, turn the vegetable heads over, let each vegetable head soak in the juice, and seal with plastic wrap;

3. Put the delicious vegetable head sour for about a week and it will be ready. If you cut it thinner, you can eat it for about four or five days.

Vegetable head acid

Then according to personal taste, a certain proportion of white sugar is added to the sour water of sauerkraut head, which becomes sour water of sauerkraut head with sweet and sour throat. If properly drunk, it can also relieve phlegm and cough. At present, some restaurants in the market also shred the vegetable heads as appetizers or side dishes before meals.

Tips:

1. evenly slice white radish;

2, the pickling time of white radish can not be too long or too short, too long white radish will be too sour, too short will become spicy and easy to deteriorate;

3, people with cold stomach eat less sauerkraut.

The sour and crisp vegetable head tastes good, and the sour sauerkraut head also has the effect of cooling and reducing fire. Modern medicine believes that eating radish can reduce blood fat, soften blood vessels and prevent arteriosclerosis and other diseases. In addition, eating white radish also has the function of beauty and weight loss. White radish is also called "little ginseng".