This is an "artichoke",? It's a vegetable. It's originally called artichoke. My favorite vegetable? ^_^? Some people call it "artichoke".

It looks like a lotus flower not yet in bloom, but it's green, so it's also called "green?artichoke", and there's also a purple variety, which is, of course, "purple?artichoke". The funny thing is that the color varies from place to place. For example, in the United States, in Spain, and Chile and Turkey, it's green; in Italy and Egypt, it's purple. Even its shape varies; elsewhere it has flat leaf petals, whereas in Peru, the median line of the leaf petals bulges out to form a stiff spine.

Abundant on the Mediterranean coast, it is common in French and Italian cuisine, and it is said that according to studies, artichoke was one of the first foods of mankind. It is also eaten in strange ways, there are very easy ways to eat it and difficult ones.

The easy way to eat is to go to the French and Italian restaurants, order a copy, served up a large pot, a small pile in the middle, looks like a small piece of potato, dripping with sauce, with a fork fork up into the mouth is.

The trouble is eating this with your hands. Peel off the outermost petals at the bottom with your hands, pinch the tip of the petal with your thumb and forefinger, the back of the flower facing up, dip it in the sauce and bring it to your mouth. Then bite half of the petal with your bottom teeth, it is easy to bite into the center side of the flower as it is more tender than the back half. While sucking and gently pulling out with your hand, your lower teeth will be able to scrape down the edible part of the petal.

Don't you look down on such a soft flower, be careful of the thorns on the tip of the flower, each petal on the top of the purple below the white flower pieces, there is a very small hard thorns in the front, so you still can't put the whole piece of flower into the mouth to chew. Especially the center of the flower is a little purple inside,? You have to remove it. I'll post a picture of how to prepare this ingredient. I'll post a picture of how to prepare this ingredient for cooking. Can you see if it can help you? ^_^