Malantau can be cooked in hot pot.

Maran head cooking, can be with a variety of meat and vegetarian ingredients, but heating time should not be long, high fire quickly into the best. With roasted vegetables, can be used less fried stir-fry for the bottom or around the edge. Fresh red stalks Malan root or the whole grass in appropriate amount, washed and mashed juice, to warm water, or a large number of the whole grass boil juice to serve. There is also a green shell duck eggs and Malan head with boiled, cooked and broken shell and then boiled to the duck egg color, eat eggs and drink soup.

Introduction

Malantou, also known as Malan, red stalks, chicken intestine, field chrysanthemums, purple chrysanthemums, crape myrtle, etc., belongs to the daisy family, Malan perennial herbaceous plants. It is a perennial herb in the genus Maranta of the family Asteraceae. Maranta was originally a wild species, born on roadsides, fields and slopes, and is distributed in most parts of the country.

There are two kinds of Malan head, red stem and green stem, both edible, medicinal to red stem Malan head is better. Due to the relationship between Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival combined into one, some places still retain the custom of eating cold food on Qingming Festival. In Zhejiang eat Malan head and other seasonal vegetables, is to take its "green" word, in order to "Qingming" of the "green".