Cauliflower, also known as cauliflower, cauliflower, or cauliflower, is a vegetable in the cruciferous family, a variant of kale. Cauliflower has a white inflorescence head, similar to that of broccoli. Cauliflower is rich in vitamins B-complex and C. These components are water-soluble and are easily dissolved and lost by heat, so boiled cauliflower should not be cooked at high temperatures and is not suitable for boiling. Native to the Mediterranean coast, its product organs for the white, short shrinkage, fat and tender 'buds, flower branches, flower shafts and other polymerization of the flower ball, is a kind of crude fiber content is small, tender quality, nutritious, delicious flavor, people like to eat vegetables.

Cooking Methods

Flower Bulb Selection

1, the maturity of the flower bulb, to the flower bulb around the periphery of the unspread is good.

2, the whiteness of the bulb, to the bulb white yellow, no odor, hairless flowers is good.

Note

1, cauliflower, although nutritious, but there are often residual pesticides, but also easy to give birth to cabbage worms, so before you eat, you can put the cauliflower in the salt water soak for a few minutes, cabbage worms run out, but also help to remove the residual pesticides.

2, eat when to chew a few times, so that more conducive to the absorption of nutrients.

3, making gazpacho without soy sauce, if you prefer the taste of soy sauce, you can add less soy sauce.

4, cauliflower, broccoli blanching, should be put into the cool water within the cool water, fished out and drained water and then used.

5, boiling and salt time should not be too long, so as not to lose and destroy the anti-cancer nutrients.

Home Cookbook

Bacon fried cauliflower

Raw materials: cauliflower half hand, break small pieces; bacon two two, sliced; dry chili three, cut section; salt, MSG moderate.

Practice: pot of oil burned to 60% hot, under the dry chili pepper segments fried flavor, into the bacon slices fried about a minute. Push the bacon to the side of the pot, pour in boiling water blanched cauliflower (if you like to eat crispy cauliflower does not need to blanch), put salt and stir fry for two minutes. Put monosodium glutamate (MSG), spatula evenly, and then start the pot is ready.

Stir-fried cauliflower with mushrooms

Ingredients: 250 grams of cauliflower, 15 grams of mushrooms, 10 grams of chicken oil, 100 milliliters of chicken broth, peanut oil, salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), green onions, ginger, starch, each appropriate amount.

Practice: cauliflower choose clean, cut into small pieces, into the boiling water pot blanch a little out; mushrooms with warm water soaking, remove the tip of the wash. Frying pan on the fire, put the peanut oil is hot, under the onion, ginger sautéed flavor, add chicken broth, salt, monosodium glutamate, after the boil out of the onion, ginger do not, into the mushrooms, cauliflower, a little simmering with a small fire flavor, thickening with water starch, drizzled with chicken oil, into the plate can be eaten.

Functions: benefit the stomach, tonic and strong body.

Usage: Serve with meals.

Application: for loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea and fatigue, etc., can also prevent and control rickets.

Duck meat fried cauliflower

Ingredients: duck breast, cauliflower, scallions, cooking oil, cooking wine, salt, chicken essence, powder gravy.

Practice: slice the duck breast cauliflower washed split into small flowers, sit in a pot of boiling water, blanch in the pot, fish out of the cool water, water standby sit in an iron pot to put cooking oil, oil is hot onion choking out the flavor, and then put the blanched cauliflower and duck breast into the stir-fry, put cooking wine, salt, chicken thicken the thickening of the pot with a quick stir-fry.

Nutritional Benefits

Cauliflower is more nutritious than the average vegetable. It contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins A, B, C, E, P, U and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. Cauliflower texture is tender, taste sweet and fresh, very easy to digest and absorb after eating, its tender stem fiber, cooking and frying tender and delicious, suitable for the middle-aged and elderly, children and weak spleen and stomach, digestion is not strong people to eat. Especially in the summer heat, dry mouth, thirst, urine was golden yellow, stool hard or not smooth, with 30 grams of cauliflower decoction, drink frequently, have a heat thirst, diuretic effect.