Chicory is an edible perennial vegetable, belonging to the chicory genus of the Asteraceae family, and there are many people who call it bitter chicory, bitter vegetable, bright eyesight vegetable and coffee grass, etc. It is a kind of spring-summer vegetable, which will be listed in April to July, and its common main production areas are Nanjing, Taizhou and other places, and it is widely distributed in Yangtze River Basin.

What does chicory look like

Chicory will produce blue-purple flowers in the flowering season, the leaves are rounded green fusiform, the apex is relatively sharp, the edge of the leaf blade does not have the distribution of serrated structure, the height of the plant can be up to fifty centimeters or more.

Chicory practice

1, stir-fry

Chicory stir-fry does not need to match too many ingredients, you can cut into the right amount of parsley mixed stir-fry, if you can eat spicy, in the frying oil can be put into the little dry chili, stir-fry for a few minutes to add the right amount of salt on the good.

2, cold

Chicory cold is the most important way to eat, you can wash and cut the vegetables, pour soy sauce, vinegar MSG and other mixed seasoning, to eliminate the purpose of its own earthy flavor.

The efficacy and role of chicory

Chicory has a lot of pharmacological effects, very beneficial to the body, for indigestion, heart and chest boredom, gastric distension has a very good therapeutic effect, in the summer time can also be cleansing and detoxification, to relieve the summer heat.