Dried plum dishes have dried mustard, dried oil lei, dried cabbage difference, mostly home-made, so that the leaves dry, pile yellow, and then add salt pickling, and finally dried in the sun loaded altar. Plum dried vegetables are used for stems, leaves with mustard or potherb mustard pickling fermentation, and then sun-dried finished products. In late fall and early winter, the mustard in the garden drew moss, thumb thick and thin, the top with flower buds, shaped like an autumn grape, crisp and tender taste sweet. At this time, pick the heart of the vegetable and hang it to dry for a few days. When the leaves become soft, put into a pot, sprinkle salt, rubbed by hand, and so seeped out some of the vegetable juice, it will be loaded into a ceramic urn, yards of a layer of salt, filled with mustard leaves or bamboo shoots shells to the urn mouth sealed tightly. After ten days and a half months, take out the sun dry, will become a job color golden, salty and sour taste sweet dried plum dishes.

Shaoxing dried mustard greens

Dried mustard greens

1. After harvesting the fresh vegetables after finishing cleaning and drying for about 5 days, placed in the shade of the ventilated place stacked for 4 to 5 days.

2. When the leaves become yellowish-green and the leaves soften, shred the dried leaves.

3. Put the dried vegetables into a pot, sprinkle salt, rub with your hands, and when some vegetable juice seeps out, it will be loaded into a clay pot.

4. Seal the pot tightly after filling it with shredded vegetables and store it in a cool place.

5. Pickling half over the month, you can find open the lid of the pot, take out the finished dried plum to eat, at this time the vegetable line will become a job color golden, salty and sour taste sweet dried plum.

Hakka Dried Plum Cabbage

Dried Plum Cabbage is a kind of Hakka local dish which is famous both at home and abroad. At the end of fall and the beginning of winter, mustard greens in the vegetable garden draw moss, which is thick and thin, with flower buds at the top, shaped like autumn grapes, crispy, tender and sweet. At this time, village women pick the heart of the vegetable (about 5 inches long), hanging for a few days. When the leaves become soft, put into a pot, sprinkle salt, rubbed by hand, to be seeped out some juice, it will be loaded into a ceramic urn, yards of a layer of salt, filled with mustard leaves or bamboo shoots shells to the urn mouth sealed tightly. After half a month and twenty days, take out the sun dry, will become a golden color, salty and sour taste sweet, with a special flavor of dried plum.

Zhejiang Dried Plum Cabbage

Dried Plum Cabbage is a famous specialty of Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing, with a long history of production. People in Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing generally pickle and make their own as a regular vegetable, and it is also commonly used as a gift for friends and relatives. As early as in the "Yuezhong Bianan", there is an account: "(Dried Plum Dried Vegetables have the difference between dried mustard, dried rape, dried cabbage. Mustard fresh flavor, oilseed rape flat, cabbage tender, used to cook duck, roast meat flavor, Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing residents nineteen homemade." Visible at that time the production of Shaoxing Meijanlei has been extremely common. Qing Dynasty, Mei Ganlei had as Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing's "eight tributes," one of the production is extremely elaborate, the selection of materials to be fine, before the Qingming Festival, the mustard, potherb mustard heart drying, with a small bunch of gold and silver wire tied up in a small bundle, installed in a small altar in the salt, to be brine back down, take out after maturity, drying, steaming, vegetables were reddish black after The dish is reddish black, in the sun in the sun, so repeatedly steamed many times, until the color red, bright, fragrant, and finally loaded into the outside of the dish decorated with figures in the landscape altar in the seal.

According to the old man who had made tribute dishes in the Qing Dynasty recalls, such refined tribute dishes by Cixi, Yuyao, Shaoxing governor and Shanyin County supervisor, every year, but only a thousand pounds of vegetable altar covered with yellow seal, special people transported to the capital. It is rumored that Emperor Qianlong six to Jiangnan, come to Shaoxing to taste the dishes and vegetable farms made with tribute vegetables. Nowadays, not only Shaoxing farmers make their own vegetables in almost every house, every household is always prepared, through the year, Cixi in Ningbo area is mainly making commercial dried plum vegetables. The annual output of commercial dried plums is more than 250 tons, which is exported both at home and abroad.

How to Wash Dried Plum Cabbage to Preserve Nutrition

Soak it in water for half an hour. Then, under the faucet, scrub the roots and leaves as you pick them. This way it can be washed clean. And keep the nutrients.