Mustard greens are called olive greens because olive greens are dishes made from mustard greens, olives and other spices.

Olive vegetables are flavored side dishes in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong and belong to Chaozhou cuisine in the Cantonese cuisine. Olive vegetables are made from the mellow flavor of olives, fried mustard leaves, and salted, fermented, and boiled using traditional techniques. Olive vegetables are also a special variety of pickles in Chaoshan area, and are an important part of Chaoshan food culture. Chaoshan olive vegetable production techniques have a long history and are widely spread in Longhu District, Chenghai District and surrounding villages and towns of Shantou City.

Pickling is a method of making food by making use of the preservation effect of salt to pickle fresh fruits or raw materials that have been processed by other methods with salt. Olive vegetables are made by boiling green olives with vegetable oil and salt through a special process, and then adding mustard leaves and spices.

Introduction to how to eat olive vegetables:

1. Stir-fried minced meat with vegetables

Olive vegetables can be fried with minced meat. When cooking, you need to wash the olives and chop them into minced meat, add light soy sauce in advance, and marinate with oyster sauce and cooking wine for half an hour. Add an appropriate amount of cooking oil to the wok, heat it, add an appropriate amount of pepper water, then quickly stir-fry the minced meat, add the prepared olives, stir-fry evenly, and then remove from the pan.

2. Stir-fried olives, vegetables and beans

It is especially delicious stir-fried with olives, vegetables and beans. When cooking, you need to wash the fresh long beans, cut them into small pieces, put some cooking oil in the wok, heat it, add red pepper, and then stir-fry the cut green beans in the pot for two minutes. Bring the olives to a boil again, add some soy sauce to taste, and stir-fry for another three minutes. At this time, stir-fry the olives and beans in the pot.

3. Olive and vegetable fried rice

Olive and vegetable fried rice is also one of the common ways to eat it. Usually leftover rice from steamed rice can be fried with olives. When cooking, you need to fry two eggs to make them into pieces, then wash and chop the olives and vegetables. After heating the oil in the pot, stir-fry the olives in the pot, add the prepared rice, stir-fry evenly, add the fried eggs, and season with salt.