Alias: Wujiezi, Yang peach, Yang peach, Sanlianzi
English name: Carambola
Scientific name: Averrhoa carambola L. belongs to the edelweiss family, Wujiezi genus
Maturity: Hainan Yang peach May to December can be fruit, around August for the peak production period. The peak production period is around August.
Source of name: the poplar peach was introduced to China in the Jin Dynasty, because of its hanging branches and called "peach", and so the fruit is across the ocean, help called "foreign peaches", and later due to a clerical error became "poplar peach" in the United States. "In the United States, the original name of the peach Carambola, but it is not easy to remember, so we will be its cross-section of the pattern known as StarFruit.
Yangtao, China is one of the origin, is one of the prestigious Lingnan good fruit. Because of the cross-section as a five-pointed star (a few for the 6-pointed star), so foreign countries also called "star pear" (Star fruit).
Yangtao is the fruit of the Oxalidaceae plant Averrhoa carambola Linn. Appearance: The poplar peach has a pentagonal appearance (a few are hexagonal).
The poplar peach is subdivided into two categories: sour poplar peach and sweet poplar pick. Sour peach fruit is large and sour, commonly known as "three ripening", less eaten raw, more for cooking ingredients or processing preserves. Sweet poplar peaches can be divided into "big flower", "middle flower", "white shell" three strains, including the Guangzhou suburb of flower real estate "flower red "The best taste, it is sweet, no dregs, the flavor is particularly delicious.
Yangtao is a small evergreen tree or shrub, berries alternate throughout the year, but the quality of the blossom in July, the autumn equinox fruit ripe for the best, the highest yield. Around mid-autumn is the peak production period of poplar peach.
Peach eating method:
1. directly eat
Clean, and then use a knife to cut off five (or six) rhombus, pay attention to only need to cut off the thinner rhombus can be, do not need to cut off the whole rhombus all, in that case the whole poplar peaches will not have much left, and then use a knife to cut into thin slices of the pentagram, you can eat.
2. Egg and milk stewed poppyseed:
Poppyseed is rich in sugar, fiber and acid, can solve the internal organs of the accumulated heat, clearing dryness and intestines. Use it to make dessert can skin care and skin care, suitable for people who stay up all night.
Materials include: 1 poppy seed to remove the hard edge of the core cut into small pieces, 2 eggs, 250ml milk, sugar at random.
The production method is simple, first of all, the poppy seeds block, milk, sugar in the pot with a small fire cook until the sugar dissolved off the fire, cool (poppy seeds with cooking is to make the milk soup have poppy seeds flavor). Then strain out the milk, add the milk to the beaten egg and mix well, sieve and filter out the foam and beaten egg white, and finally add the poppy seeds, cover the dish with high heat and steam until solidified.
3. Plucked popcorn:
Popcorn is formed into a five-pointed rhombus (a few for the hexagonal rhombus), cross-section like a star, also known as the star-shaped fruit. Now introduces a home-made dessert - plucked popcorn, delicious not to mention, the most pleasing to the eye is its lovely star-shaped, wrapped in plucked crispy syrup, in the sunshine to see extra crystalline transparent, so it gave it a good image of the name, called "glass star "
Materials
Ingredients: 2 poppies, 1 cup self-rising flour, 5 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp sugar gum (or maltose).
How to make: Wash and dry the poppy seeds, remove the hard edges and cut into thick pieces. Add 3/4 cup of water to the flour and mix to form a crunchy batter. Dip the peaches into the batter and deep-fry them in hot oil until golden brown and crispy, then drain the oil and set aside. Cook sugar, sugar gelatin and half cup of water in a little oil until thick and almost gelatinous, remove from heat and mix in the crispy peaches.
4. American-style peach buns:
Materials: 150g high gluten flour, 30g low gluten flour, 1 and 1/2 tsp dry yeast, 80ml warm water, 20g butter, 2 tbsp sugar, 1/3 tsp salt, 2 tbsp milk powder. 2 poppies, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp corn starch, 1 tbsp cream (can be omitted), 1 tsp egg white, 25g powdered sugar.
To make the cake, preheat the oven to 175 degrees Fahrenheit, place it in the middle of the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Pit and cut the peaches into small pieces, beat them with a blender, add the sugar, cornstarch and cream, bring to a boil, and let them cool.
After basic fermentation, divide the dough into 12 equal portions, flatten slightly and make a dent in the center. Let the dough rise for 30 minutes, then fill the holes with the filling and bake with the egg-sugar mixture. Mix the powdered sugar and egg white together, put it in a small plastic bag, and squeeze thin threads on the baked bread as decoration.
Nutrition:
Popcorn is a fruit with a lot of water, and the soluble solids of fresh fruit is 9%. Each 100 grams of edible portion containing 6.2 grams of carbon hydrate, vitamin C 7 mg, containing sucrose, fructose, glucose, malic acid 46.8 grams, oxalic acid 7.2 grams, citric acid and vitamins B1, B2, as well as calcium, potassium, magnesium, trace fats and proteins and other nutrients, it is a nutrient composition more comprehensive fruit.
Morphological features
Yangtao is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola Linn. in the Oxalidaceae family. Appearance and color: the appearance of poplar peach five diamond-shaped, green or light green when not ripe, ripe yellow-green to bright yellow, single fruit weight of about 80 grams. Thin skin such as film, less fiber, crisp juice, sweet and sour, aromatic sweet. Yang peach edible rate of more than 92%.
Yangtao is a small evergreen tree or shrub, berries alternate year-round, but the quality of the blossom in July, the autumn equinox fruit ripe for the best, the highest yield. Around mid-autumn is the peak production period of poplar peach.
Health effects
Peaches have digestive, nourishing, health functions for the human body, for malaria have antibiotic effect. Juice can promote appetite, help digestion, treatment of skin diseases effect.
Yang Peach fresh fruit, sex is slightly cold, more food is easy to make the spleen and stomach wet cold, loose stools and diarrhea, hindering appetite and digestion and absorption. If for therapeutic purposes, whether eating raw fruit or drinking juice, it is best not to cold and ice diet.