This is a specialty of our country and has a special flavor. It is often used to make cold dishes and stew dishes, and it is also the main raw material for processing spiced powder. [Edit this paragraph] In recent years, the phenomenon of using weeds as aniseed has been found in the market. Weeds contain weed toxins, which can easily lead to poisoning. Its symptoms appear 30 minutes after eating, ranging from nausea and vomiting to irritability, dilated pupils, foaming at the mouth, and finally blood pressure drops, breathing stops and death.
Illicium verum (Illicium verum) has a regular petal angle, generally 8, with thick petals, straight sharp corners and upward curved pedicels. It tastes sweet and has a strong and special fragrance.
Mangrove (Illicium verum) petals are irregular, mostly more than 8 petals. Petals are slender, with a pointed eagle mouth, extremely wrinkled appearance, flat and slightly bitter pedicels, and there is no unique fragrance of octagonal. It is best to take a little coarse powder and add 4 times of water, boil it for 30 minutes, filter it and heat it to concentrate, and the octagonal solution is brown; The solution of weeds is light yellow.
Excellent Illicium verum seeds are neat and complete, brownish red and shiny, with large and full flowers, big cracks on the pod edge, and bright seeds can be seen in the pod. Grasping star anise has a tingling feeling and a strong fragrance. If the flowers of Illicium verum are thin, with many broken grains, dark brown color and poor fragrance, it is inferior. Some lawless people in the market often confuse the fake with the real, and pass something called "Miscanthus" off as octagonal. Miscanthus seeds, also known as Illicium verum and Illicium verum, are poisonous plants and can't be eaten, but their appearance is similar to that of real Illicium verum. How to tell the true and false star anise? You count its horns first. Generally, there are 8 pods, but there are also 7 or 9 pods. But there are 1 1 ~ 12 pods. Look at the shape of fruit. The real material is fat, with straight corners and bright grains, while the fake material is slender and upturned, hooked, thin and dull. Real aniseed has its own special fragrance, while fake aniseed smells like toilet water or camphor, and tastes bitter and hemp.
In addition, there is the same plant fennel, 14 petals, which is very toxic.
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[Edit this paragraph] Illicium verum can be divided into autumn Illicium verum and spring Illicium verum due to different harvest seasons. The fruit of Illicium verum is full, bright red, rich in smell, with dull and flat pod ends and good quality. Spring barley is thin, bluish, slightly sharp, with a light aroma, and its quality is not as good as autumn barley. [Edit this paragraph] How to skillfully use aniseed to make meaty vegetarian dishes? If it is used to make soup, you can add fennel and aniseed to the cabbage and cook it together, and finally put some sesame oil.
For frying juice. For example, to make the sauce of braised fish, put the wok on the fire and pour in the oil. Add a little aniseed when the oil is boiled, add other seasonings when it is fragrant, and finally add fried fish.
Cook thick dishes. For example, when stewing meat, put it in the pot with the meat. Because the stew takes a long time, star anise can be fully hydrolyzed into the meat to make the meat more mellow.
Marinate for use. Such as pickled chicken and duck eggs, Chinese toon and coriander, adding aniseed has a unique flavor. Pharmacological bacteriostatic test of medicinal value: the ethanol extract of Illicium verum has strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, pneumococcus, diphtheria Bacillus, Bacillus subtilis, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella typhi, Bacillus paratyphi, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli and common pathogenic dermatophytes.
Sexual taste is pungent and warm.
Functions: warming middle warmer, regulating qi, invigorating stomach and stopping vomiting. Used for vomiting, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and hernia pain. [ 1]