Chive flowers can be eaten after pickling for seven to ten days.

Chives flowers, chives white in the fall on the white clusters of white flowers, more than in the want to open not yet open when picked, grated and pickled into a sauce to eat, farmers more called "leek flowers".

Chives flowers, referred to as leek flowers, also known as leek moss. I know there are several ways to eat leeks. One is the spring leeks, that is, Du Fu "gift Wei eight Division Shi" poem said "night rain cut spring leeks, new cooking between the yellow sorghum" in the "spring leeks". Leeks for the spring first crop of the most delicious, and until the summer a variety of vegetables on the market, leeks naturally become the next thing, so the countryside has a "June smelly leeks," said. The second for leeks, winter cultivation of leeks, light yellow color, tender and tasty. Song people love to eat this kind of food, Huang Tingjian poem has "leeks in the spring plate, Mushroom white charming autumn vegetables" sentence, Wang Qianqiu "point Jiangliao - spring" words also said: "leeks are still short, the jade finger he cold cut." The cold winter cut leek pain in the poet's pen into a beautiful picture. Leek in today's winter is still a common dish, but the northern people are not more detailed, often confused with garlic. The third is leek white, also known as leek moss, that is, the stem of leeks, when young can be fried to eat. The fourth is leek flowers.

Farmer leek sauce ingredients are washed will be open unopened leek flowers, fresh chili peppers, ginger, salt, in the stone mill crushed into a fine not, into the altar sealed a few days can be eaten, but the long-lasting.

Trace the history of Chinese people eat leeks, when the beginning of the Spring and Autumn period. "Poetry - July" said: "four of the day its flea, offering lamb sacrifice leek." At the beginning of spring and April with a lamb and leek sacrificed to the god of cold, leeks in China can be seen in the long history of food and precious at that time. And leek consumption is in the Han dynasty, "qimin yaojutsu - leek" cited the Han dynasty Cui Tee "April order" said: "July leeks. The term "leeks" means leek flowers. From this, we can see that today's shabu-shabu is not without leek flowers, and it is possible that it is also related to the year's "offering of lambs to leeks".

The benefits of leeks: leeks can be eaten to stimulate the appetite, enhance appetite and promote digestion. Leek flower is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, riboflavin, ascorbic acid and other health ingredients.

Gourmet contraindication: indigestion or weak gastrointestinal function of the people who eat will be heartburn uncomfortable, do not eat more. Should not be eaten with spinach, easy to cause diarrhea with food.

Chive flower practice:

Ingredients: leek flower (one catty), red bell pepper (three), ginger (moderate), pumpkin (one)

Practice steps:

1, carefully selected top leek flower one catty (unbloomed, unseeded, flowers intact). Wash with clean water, soak in lightly salted water for 2-3 minutes, then rinse with clean water again. Drain and air-dry until no moisture is better.

2, prepare auxiliary ingredients: a cucumber, ginger half, 3 chili peppers, wash.

3. Chop all ingredients and put them into a vessel. As shown in the picture, in order to put the chopped chopped leek flowers, ginger minced chili pepper minced, cucumber crushed. Add appropriate amount of salt and mix well.

4, prepare a clean bottle without oil and water. The previous step of the material into the bottle, pour white wine to seal the lid can be.

5, seven to ten days later can be used. Unique flavor, rich in uses, mixing noodles, dip buns, hot pot seasoning and so on and so forth. The most important thing is clean and assured that there is no pollution, the seasonal choice of the most tamping.