Acacia flowers in our country has been thousands of years of edible history, let's first popularize the acacia flowers, also known as beans acacia, white acacia, fine-leafed acacia, gold medicine tree.

The flower buds of the acacia flower, also known as "acacia rice", can be eaten fresh, can also be dried for medicinal purposes. Sophora is rich in carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, niacin and phosphorus, calcium, iron and other trace elements. When I was a child, I stayed in my hometown for a while, and there was a big acacia tree at the entrance of my grandparents' yard. When it bloomed in the spring, it smelled especially good and tasted good. In times of food shortage, it was a good thing. The higher up the tree the bigger the flowers bloomed, the better. My second father took a long pole, tied a hook to it, and hooked up a bunch of acacia flowers, which I slowly jerked down, and from time to time I would put a handful of them in my mouth, which was incredibly sweet. The most delicious thing is of course the acacia flower cake.

The acacia flower has anti-inflammatory, anti-virus, anti-tumor, blood fat, clear the liver and reduce fire, cool the blood to stop bleeding and so on. Cooking acacia flowers into various cuisines is equally beneficial.

Sophora wine

Sophora flowers picked and cleaned and dried, with a clean gauze bag, put into a glass altar, pour 8 times the white wine, placed in a cool place, 60 days to drink.

Chrysanthemum tea

Take equal amounts of acacia, chrysanthemum, green tea, acacia, chrysanthemum clean and drain the water, with the tea into the tea cup, with boiling water to drink.

Sophora buns

Preparation: Sophora 1 catty, 1 catty of flour, half a catty of veggie meat, veggie broth, soy sauce, sesame oil, from flower light, glutinous rice flour, each in moderation.

Steps:

1, the acacia flowers cleaned and dried water chopped, and vegetarian meat stuffing together in a pot, adding soy sauce several times to mix, and then sprinkled into the glutinous rice flour.

2, add appropriate amount of vegetarian soup, sex powder, sesame oil and other ingredients into the filling. Flour hair, made into a crust wrapped into the filling, made into a bun, steamed over high heat.

Cool acacia leaves

Preparation: tender acacia leaves 4 two, garlic, vinegar, sesame oil, salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate each appropriate amount.

Steps: 1, the acacia tree leaves clean. Water pot on the fire, filled with water to boil, will be poured into the acacia leaves scalded, and then into the water soaked for 2 hours.

2, fishing out the acacia leaves more than 2 times to wash, remove the bitter taste. Cold boiled water rinse, squeeze the water into the basin, sprinkle garlic, vinegar, sesame oil, salt, soy sauce and monosodium glutamate, mix well.

In the countryside acacia flowers can be used as medicine, have the effect of removing poison. Sophora flowers can also be wrapped into Sophora rice, you can also wrap Sophora buns and so on.

1, acacia flowers from the tree picked and washed standby (acacia flowers are not adapted to the acacia can be light blanching).

2, flour, a little baking soda, acacia flowers, black pepper (or five-spice powder, etc.), salt, eggs mixed together (the old family to do the cake sometimes put shrimp skin), add the right amount of water (water do not add too much) into a batter.

3, electric cake pan put a little oil heating, will be appropriate amount of batter into the electric cake pan spread evenly, into a uniform thickness of the cake can be. Fry until both sides of the golden brown can be.

4, after the plate is still personal taste sprinkle some sesame seeds, dried fruit, fruit such as cherry tomatoes as a garnish, or mixed with vegetable salad with, eating is not easy to get tired of mouth.

Sophora is bitter, flat, non-toxic, with heat, cool blood, stop bleeding, lowering the efficacy of blood pressure. It can also expel worms and cure pharyngitis. Sophora has the effect of lowering blood fat and preventing hardening of blood vessels. Sophora is cold in nature and should not be consumed by people with cold spleen and stomach.