Broad Leaf Chives

Broad Leaf Chives Also known as: Ohio Chives , big leeks, wild leeks, mountain leeks, Hakka region called stone garlic.

It is a perennial herb of the genus Allium in the family Onionaceae, clustered, with slender and flat leaves and small white flowers, the leaves and flowers are edible when young.

Leeks have wide, fine-leafed points, wide-leafed leeks light green leaves, less fiber; fine-leafed leeks leaves are slender, dark green leaves, more fiber, strong flavor.

Broad-leaf leeks, for the lily family onion vegetables, its appearance and smell similar to leeks, the difference is that the leaves are much wider than leeks, to young leaves, growing leaves, flower shoots for consumption, Ohio vegetable taste is very good, taste fresh and sweet and crispy, less pungent flavor, can go to the meat, fish fishy, but also can be directly stir-fry or do stuffing. It is worth mentioning that Ohio vegetable scrambled eggs, homemade simple but full of color and flavor, in addition to cooking and eating, Ohio vegetable also has a good medicinal value, the root flavor of pungent, have scattered blood stasis and activate blood circulation, the role of qi conduction stagnation, the leaf flavor of sweet, pungent and salty, beneficial to the role of the liver and stomach.