Wild rice, one of China's specialty vegetables, used to be called "carving Hu" in ancient times, grows in shallow fields or next to the water channel, has a history of more than 3,000 years in China. In ancient times, most of them had small, light-colored flowers, and the seeds were black after they fell from the flowers, so they could be cooked and were fragrant and smooth, and they were one of the main foodstuffs consumed by the people at that time. Around the fifth and sixth centuries AD, people found that it is the base of the pole mutation expansion, inside the growth of fat white fleshy stems, pick and eat, crisp and fresh. From then on, it is gradually alienated from the grain plant to a vegetable plant, its name became wild rice.
Wild rice, with its parasitic black powder fungus and the formation of fat fleshy stems for food, fat and tender like bamboo shoots, softer than bamboo shoots, for the best home-cooked vegetables, but also a feast on the ingredients of the best. It is suitable for mixing, stir-frying, broiling, braising, and can also be used as soup for vegetarian dishes; it can also be used with meat, and can be cut into slices, dices and hobnail pieces to adapt to a variety of flavors. The motherland of Chinese medicine that its flavor is sweet, cold in nature, has the function of quenching heat and poison, eliminating thirst, and facilitating stools.
Why is there a black spot in the middle of wild rice? Agronomists have proved that by the alienation of food production for the production of vegetables is the cause of parasitic black powder fungus. In the lone pumping flower stem, flower stem if the parasitic black powder fungus, will secrete a kind of indole acetic acid, stimulate the flower stem, so that the flower stem can not be drawn out of the normal flowering, and in the lower stem in the formation of fat and tender fleshy stems --- wild rice.
Wild rice, to a large, thin skin, light color, tender white meat is good, with its production of dishes, crispy, crisp, fresh taste. Shrimp seeds stir-fry wild rice: 400g (grams) of wild rice peeled, cut into long 3cm (centimeters), 1cm wide slice, scalded with boiling water and fished out of the net water control, into a bowl; pot of pepper oil 10g, burned over medium heat to four ripe, into the shrimp seeds 10g stir-fried that is into a bowl, add salt, soy sauce, broth, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate seasoning, added to the wild rice, and then mix, cover the simmering for a few minutes, you can Plate to eat. This dish is white and tender, shrimp seeds red, flavor is very beautiful. Bad fried wild rice: 500g of wild rice peeled and cleaned, oblique knife cut into long 3cm, 0 8cm thick slices. Each slice are crossed on the Demoiselle knife, bowl into the lees 20g, add broth 50g mix, filter out the clear juice to be used; pot add 300g of onion oil, with medium heat to four mature, change to micro-fire, wild rice into the oil to fry through the oil, filtered oil, and then add lees juice, broth, salt, change to high fire burn about 3min (minutes) into the ginger juice, monosodium glutamate mixing can be eaten. This dish is white and bright, fresh and tender, bad flavor characteristics.
Introducing an article on wild rice shoots of black spots, see perhaps understand some.
Once, to the market to buy a handful of wild rice shoots, thought the summer heat, do cold water bamboo shoots, must be very appetizing. Who knows cut a branch of wild rice shoots, see inside full of black spots, I do not know how to do? I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this.
With a lot of doubts, a friend who lives in Puli called and I told her the situation. My friend kindly said, "This black spot is not edible, because if wild rice shoots are harvested too late, the soil is absorbed by the plant from the bottom and then appears as a dot of black spot. Since the black spots are formed by the soil, of course you can't eat them." When I heard that, I thought, "Her family grows wild rice shoots and grows up eating wild rice shoots, her knowledge about wild rice shoots is absolutely correct, since the planting expert said that it can't be eaten, then don't cook it for her family to eat."
This incident soon, met a doctor friend, I will be wild rice shoots black spot situation to tell him, but also take the opportunity to ask him to be careful to buy. Unexpectedly, he listened and said: "hear, see, if not to observe and seek evidence, jump to conclusions, as the ancient saying that the dog ate the moon. The water bamboo shoots grow black spots really can not eat? Don't be a fan of what people say, but seek proof, or else you will be spreading rumors." After being taught, I quickly went to a friend who has a master's degree and works in an agricultural laboratory to seek confirmation.
The result of the search for proof was that the truth came out -- it turned out that wild rice shoots are tall plants that grow in swamps and used to be called "mizuna". There was a lowly animal in the water called Komizo Black Spike Bacteria, which parasitized the stems of Komizo, stimulating the plant and fattening the stems, which are the wild rice shoots that we eat today. After the hot days, there is often black heart phenomenon, those black spots are residual Mizuno black spike fungus, and not the soil ah! Long black spots of wild rice shoots, of course, there is no reason not to eat.
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