Banana flowers are the buds or flowers of the plantain plant of the plantain family. Spikes terminal, bracts spatulate, reddish brown or purple. This article describes how to eat plantain flowers and its efficacy.

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Eating methods of plantain flowers

1. Fried plantain: all the young petals as raw materials. When processing, wash the plantain flowers, cut into fine slices, add a little salt, stir, rub with your hands and squeeze out the juice. To make vegetarian dishes, add some green chili powder and edamame made from the dregs of folk beans and stir-fry in oil. To cook the minced meat and fry the plantain flowers, clean the meat, strain it and mince it. First fry it in a frying pan with ginger and garlic until it is 70-80% cooked. Then add the banana flowers squeezed out with salt pickle, salt, monosodium glutamate, fried until the banana flowers are cooked, that is, plate.

2. Steamed banana flowers: banana flowers, lean pork, eggs as raw materials for cooking. First of all, the tender banana flower into boiling water to cook, chopped, rubbed with a little salt, squeeze out the astringent water, put into a bowl. Then add egg juice, chopped pork onion, garlic, cilantro, a little green pepper powder, salt, monosodium glutamate, mix well, wrapped in fresh banana leaves into a square leaf packet, put into the steamer for 20-30 minutes and then eat.

3. Banana Flower Soup: Boiled with wild banana flowers, lean meat slices and stinking vegetables as the main ingredients. Strip the aged petals of banana flowers, wash and chop them, rub them well with a little salt, rinse them with water to remove astringency, boil them in broth until they are seven mature, add slices of pork and washed and chopped rotten vegetables, and then add an appropriate amount of salt and monosodium glutamate to be consumed.

Effects of plantain flowers

Medicinal parts: buds or flowers of plantain.

Taste: sweet and light, slightly pungent, cool in nature.

Attacks: It has the effect of resolving phlegm and softening hardness, calming the liver and regulating qi, resolving blood stasis and promoting menstruation, chest and diaphragm distension, epigastric distension and pain, acid swallowing and vomiting, phlegm and salivation, dizziness of the head and eyes, heartache and palpitation, and women's menstrual irregularities.