Dried vegetable is dried radish. Dried radish is one of the traditional dishes of the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, belonging to the Cantonese cuisine. The dried vegetable is dried radish, is the traditional Chaoshan food, especially in Jieyang City, Jiedong County, the town of Xin Heng produced by the most famous dried vegetable, so the "Chaoshan specialties song" has a new Heng famous old dried vegetable chanting. The preserved vegetables of Xinheng Town are made of high quality radish and pickled with fine workmanship.

Method of making preserved vegetables

Cut the washed white radish in half, put it on the clean straw to dry, and then put it into a pit before sunset, sprinkle it with coarse sea salt, step on it with your feet, press it with a big stone, and then put it out to dry at sunrise on the next day.

If the drying period is continuous sunny days, after 10 days of repeated drying, white radish began to turn yellow and shriveled, no longer sun out of the water, at this time they should be put away in the urn, sealed tightly with mud, every year and a half you can open the urn to take food, which is the preserved vegetables. If the pickled preserved vegetables treasured more than 15 years, it will make it become dark and shiny, the flavor is more unique, known as the old preserved vegetables.