Our country has been collecting wild shepherd's purse for food since ancient times, and there are records of shepherd's purse as early as 300 BC.

The reputation of shepherd's purse has spread far and wide, and it has benefited from the literati of good food in the past dynasties.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, several "Shepherd Fu" came out.

Su Dongpo and Lu Fangweng in the Song Dynasty, and Zhou Zuoren and Wang Zengqi in modern times, all took over and sang praises for shepherd's purse.

Mr. Zhou Zuoren wrote about the fun of digging wild shepherd's purse in "Wild Vegetables from My Hometown".

"A few days ago, my wife came back from shopping for vegetables at Xidan Market. When she talked about the shepherd's purse being sold there, I remembered what happened in eastern Zhejiang. Shepherd's purse is a wild vegetable that people in eastern Zhejiang often eat in spring. Not to mention the countryside, as long as there are shepherd's purse in the city,

Everyone in the back garden can pick up food at any time. Women and children each take a pair of scissors and a "seedling basket" and squat on the ground to search. "Nowadays, the number of wild vegetables is decreasing year by year, and those who dig wild vegetables are doing it.

Fun has become a rare nostalgia experience.

People like to use shepherd's purse to make dumplings. The dumplings made with pork and shepherd's purse are rich in fragrance and delicious, especially in broad bean fields.

Shepherd's purse mostly grows in the weeds beside the reservoir, in the grass on the roadside, especially in broad bean fields.

However, many people may not know that shepherd's purse can be divided into cultivated and wild.

Our country has been collecting wild shepherd's purse for food since ancient times, and records of shepherd's purse date back to 300 BC.

From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, cultivation history began in the suburbs of Shanghai for more than 90 years.

Artificial cultivation is mainly based on plate-leaf shepherd's purse and loose-leaf shepherd's purse, and can be used in spring, summer and autumn.

The shepherd's purse has thick leaf heads, and the leaves are fat and thick. The loose-leaf shepherd's purse has broken leaf heads, and the leaves are small and thin, with a strong aroma and a very delicious taste.

There are many ways to eat shepherd's purse. You can make dumplings, make pies, put it in a hot pot, cook it as a hot dish, or serve it cold. Every way it is made, it can be fragrant and refined, and it has a unique flavor because of its own fragrance.

Ingredients for mixing shepherd's purse: minced shepherd's purse, minced garlic, chili, salt, sugar, chicken essence, cooking oil Steps: Wash the shepherd's purse, mince the garlic and set aside. Put the washed shepherd's purse into a pot of boiling water and blanch it. Don't blanch it for too long. Boil it in water and then pick it up;

Squeeze out the water from the shepherd's purse and chop it into pieces. Prepare the sauce. Pour hot oil into a bowl with minced garlic, dried chili powder, salt, chicken essence and sugar. Stir evenly and it will become a crispy, fragrant and unique cold salad.

It’s shepherd’s purse.