The selection and preservation of wild rice shoots. Selection: the water bamboo shoots on the market can be divided into shelled and unshelled, supermarkets have been shelled water bamboo shoots, it is recommended that you can select the meat of the white good, eating will be more delicate and tender, with the green said that the old, the fibrous texture of the coarser. If the market is not shelled, it is best to pick 7, 8 minutes cooked better, the simplest way to identify is to look at the shell, if there is cracking is overcooked, eat up the meat will be too old, should not be purchased.

The perennial aquatic herb. With rhizomes, aboveground stems can produce 23 tillers. Forming tiller clusters, the culms are erect, stout, with adventitious roots at the base, and after the main stem and tiller branches enter reproductive growth, the base fails to grow normally if it is parasitized by Zizania nigra, forming an ellipsoid or suborbicular fleshy stem. The leaf blade is flattened, long lanceolate, 30,100 centimeters long and about 3 centimeters wide, with an awn-like acuminate apex and a slightly narrowed or tapering base, generally rough above and at the margins, smooth below, and with the midvein raised on the abaxial surface. Leaf sheaths are long and plump, clasping each other to form "pseudostems". Flowers and fruits in fall and winter, panicles large, 3060 cm long, much branched, ascending or spreading. Caryopsis cylindrical. Often cultivated as a vegetable. Plants not parasitized by fungi on the culms are called wild wild rice, also known as male wild rice and wild rice. In the Shanghai area there are wild.

Wild rice is reproduced by dividing the plant, and the good or bad of the plant directly affects the rate of wild rice, yield and quality of wild rice. Due to the time of invasion of black powder fungus, the number and cultivation and management level of differences, often caused by degeneration of germplasm, resulting in the emergence of male wild rice, gray wild rice, so every year should be strictly selected seed plants.

Good mother plant selection requirements: the year plant shape neat, pregnant water bamboo early, knot water bamboo, water bamboo meat fat, water bamboo shape good-looking; knot water bamboo parts of low, and maturity consistent; no male water bamboo, gray water bamboo, no shell green, deformed wild rice water bamboo dun to stay in the seed.

The annual double-season wild rice seedlings should be strictly selected three times; the first selection in the year planted in the wild rice summer wild rice harvest, according to the selection criteria to choose a good single plant to do the seed and make a good mark; the second in the spring wild rice harvest on the first selection of the seed plants for re-election, remove the water bamboo plants that do not meet the standards; the third combined with the winter wild rice field management in a timely manner digging out the male plants, stray plants, gray plants, and shells, deformed wild rice wild rice dunnage. The third time with the winter wild rice field management in time to dig out male plants and gray plants and shell green, deformed and other wild rice dun. Generally planting 1 acre of field needs 250 seed pier or so.

Preservation: To preserve wild rice shoots for a long time, it is best to buy unpeeled bamboo shoots, put them in a plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator for about half a month. If you buy a lot at a time, it is recommended that you first cook it in a large pot for about 5 minutes, cool it down and then put it in a plastic box in the refrigerator, where it can be placed for 4 to 5 days; you can take it out at any time to make dishes, which is quite convenient. Zizania bamboo shoots have a lot of water, rich in fiber, similar to the texture of bamboo shoots, whether it is steamed, boiled, stir-fried or grilled are very suitable! The most common way to eat it is to make it into a cold salad, as well as adding it to shredded meat and stir-frying it.

Wild Rice Shoots TriviaWild Rice Shoots are not bamboo shoots! It's the product of a bacterial infection? Asparagus is not a bamboo shoot even though it has the word bamboo shoot in it, but did you know that wild rice shoots are not bamboo shoots either? Even though its taste and appearance are not very different from bamboo shoots, its biological classification is closer to that of rice. Zizania shoots are herbaceous plants in the grass family, and are the stems of the crop Mizuna, which is planted in paddy fields and swamps, and can reach a height of 1?2.5 meters, and like rice, wheat, and corn, it produces ears and grains.

We eat wild rice shoots although the stem, but it is actually the so-called sick stem. In the summer, when the heat is high, Mizuno is easily infected by a fungus called Mizuno Black Spike fungus, and the young stems are stimulated to proliferate cells, and then nutrients are gradually stored in this enlarged part, which then becomes the familiar white shoots of Zizania aquatica. On the other hand, the stems of normal-growing, uninfected wild rice shoots are as long and thin as rice, and will only flower and bud, but will not expand, and have no food value, and are regarded as useless male plants. Sometimes you may see black spots in the water bamboo shoots on the market, in fact, is the spores of the black spore fungus, a small number of does not affect the food, only the poor appearance; but if the number is too much, or the water bamboo shoots become dark brown, it represents the growth of too much mold, the flavor declined, is not recommended to eat.

Water bamboo shoots, also known as water bamboo shoots, must be grown in the water for about four months to harvest. There are two varieties of wild rice shoots, mainly green shells in summer and red shells in fall and winter, with little difference in appearance. In order for wild rice shoots to be tasty, in addition to technology, water quality and soil are all important. There are springs from the Hohhuan Mountain in Puli, and the topography of the basin with a lot of clouds and mist, as well as the temperature of 26 degrees Celsius on average, are all the best conditions for the growth of wild rice shoots, and therefore the quality is excellent, and many wild rice shoots are exported to Japan. Originally, wild rice shoots only produced two seasons a year, but Puli farmers have adopted night lighting to promote growth, and now there are fresh shoots to harvest all year round.

Water bamboo shoots also need to be protected from the sun to whiten, the floating weeds in the paddy fields is to isolate the sun, to keep the water temperature low secret weapon. Puli wild rice shoots and a little story, the original wild rice shoots are black spots in the heart of the shoots, by the customer dislike dare not buy, and then a farmer Chen Dengdang found that the shoots in the field is the only one white and flawless, will be improved after the study of this plant, and share with all the farmers, and thus create today's Puli wild rice shoots of the beauty of the name, this a green shell of the early growth of species of wild rice shoots are also named Dengdang species in order to thank Mr. Chen Dengdang.