Many guests from other provinces come to Guizhou for the first time, at the dinner table can often see two unique Guizhou characteristics of food and medicine in one of the food, one is the root of the ear, the other is the prickly pear (prickly pear wine, prickly pear juice, prickly pear preserved fruit, prickly pear drinks). Many people are not used to eat for the first time, often sometimes bring embarrassment to the meeting host. In fact, many guests from other provinces do not know that these two flavors are the favorite of Guizhou locals, but also a good food and medicine in one of the best food. Now we will talk about the peculiarities of these two food and medicine food.

Folded Ear Root (famous doctors): scientific name Houttuynia cordata (Latin name: Houttuynia cordata Thunb), alias Fishy Grass (Compendium of Materia Medica), dog sticking ear (Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province), folded ear root (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou), pig's snout arch (Sichuan) . Fishy herb with a foul odor.

1, the medicinal value of folded ear root

The whole plant is used in medicine, has a heat, detoxification, water effect, treatment of enteritis, dysentery, nephritis edema and mastitis, otitis media.

2, the edible value of the root

Tender rhizome edible, southwest China (especially in Guizhou and Sichuan) people often used as a vegetable or condiment. Cuisine made from the root is even more common.

(1) Cold Mixed Folium

Methods: Wash and cut off the Folium, plus seasoning. It's a good idea to keep it cold for a little while to make it more flavorful.

(2) Ear root fried meat

Practice: Ear root washed and cut into pieces spare, pork cut thin slices with a small powder spare, pot hot pour vegetable oil, add pork stir fry, to the meat discoloration, add Ear root, stir fry a moment to get out of the pot. If you like to eat a little softer, increase the stir-fry time a little bit.

(3) Cucumber with Earwig

Methods: Wash the earwig and cut it off, wash the cucumber and slice it, and then put on the condiments and seasonings according to your favorite taste, and then mix it together.

(4) folded ear root mixed with wild bitter melon

Practice: will folded ear root washed and cut off, the bitter melon washed and sliced, according to their favorite taste put on the garnish and seasoning, mixing together can be. If you think the bitter melon is too bitter to accept, you can boil it beforehand to get rid of the bitterness.

(5) Boiled Earwig

Methods: Wash the earwig and cut it off and spare it, put it in the earwig after the water boils and put some salt on it. This dish is benign and has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins.

(6) folding ear root stewed meat

Practice: cut the folding ear root into small segments, cut the pork into small slices, plus the seasoning, and the pork with a warm fire stewed can be.

(7) Folded Ear Root Roasted Fish

Directions: Roasted fish with some folded ear root and wood ginger seeds, the flavor is extremely delicious.

Prickly pear is the fruit of the Rosaceae plant reeling flowers, known as the king of vitamin C in the fruit, each hundred grams of prickly pear fresh fruit containing more than two thousand milligrams of vitamin C, tannin 500 to 1,000 milligrams of its roots, stems, leaves, seeds can be used in medicine, has a high medicinal value, has the effect of stomach and digestion, heat relief, can be used for the treatment of a variety of diseases.

Golden prickly pear Rosa sterilis var. leioclada, also known as light branch seedless prickly pear, seedless prickly pear, golden prickly pear, etc., is a kind of early yield, high yield, root system developed, exuberant growth of the fruit tree, and its fruits are rich in a variety of amino acids, vitamins and mineral nutrients.

Golden prickly pear fruit in addition to fresh food, but also can be processed into fruit juice, fruit wine, drinks, preserved fruit and jam, etc., has a high nutritional value and a variety of health care role, has a high value of development and utilization. Guizhou Anshun city forestry research for many years this new varieties of prickly pear, has now fully mastered the Anshun gold prickly pear tissue culture technology, cuttings seedling technology and cultivation technology.

1, soak and drink

Wild prickly pear can be used to soak and drink, but used to soak the prickly pear (or wild prickly pear), is people in the harvest of fresh wild prickly pear, after air-drying and dehydration treatment after the dry products, in the soaking water before you should be rinsed with water to clean the surface of the floating dust, and then put it into a cup, directly with boiling water! Brewing, you can also sun-dried after the wild prickly pear broken into pieces and then brewed with boiling water, which is conducive to the human body on the absorption of its nutrients.

2, soak wine to drink

Wild prickly pear in the sun after drying can also be used to soak wine to drink, in the use of it to soak wine need to prepare the wild prickly pear 5-7 times the height of the white wine, the wild prickly pear after processing clean, break into pieces directly on the clean glass bottle, and then poured into the prepared white wine, put the right amount of rock sugar to mix well, after 10 days or so in the inside of the soaking, soaking. Sealed soak, 10 days or so inside the fruit wine can soak well, take out can drink directly.

3, pickled preserved fruit

Fresh wild prickly pear can also be added to sugar, pickled into preserved fruit to eat later, when you need to prepare fresh wild prickly pear and clean ceramic jars, wash the wild prickly pear, put a layer of ceramic cans to put a layer of wild prickly pear, put a layer of sugar, and put them compacted, and then the ceramic jars. Sealed good 10 days or so inside the preserved fruit can be done, take out after you can eat directly can also be used to soak water to drink.

4, prickly pear products (drinks, health care products)