Ants vegetable, scientific name amaranth, annual herbs. Stem lower Portuguese, four scattered branches, the upper part of the slightly erect or oblique, fat and juicy, green or lilac, all smooth and glabrous. Leaves alternate or subopposite, stalk very short; leaf blade fleshy and fertile, oblong or spatulate, or obovate, apex rounded, slightly concave or truncated, base broadly cuneate, resembling a horse's tooth, so called "Amaranthus"; entire, dark above, light green or dull red below, except for the midvein, the rest of the veins are inconspicuous.

Legend:

In ancient times, ten suns were scorching the earth at the same time, and the people could not live. Hou Yi got the divine arrow and determined to get rid of the people's harm. The ten suns were in hiding, but nine of them were found one after another by Hou Yi and shot down. Without the sun in the sky, the earth was plunged into darkness and cold, and once again the people could not live in peace.

Hou Yi was still trying to find the last sun, and the people asked Hou Yi to leave this last sun behind, so that he could bring light and heat to the earth.

The last sun came back, and it turned out that he had converged his light and hid it in an ant tree, which had yellow round flowers that were very similar to the converged sun, so it was no wonder that Houyi couldn't find it for a long time.

But the sun is a fireball, although convergence of the light, but still the original tall ant tree scalded into a serious disability. The ant tree has been prostrate on the ground, never able to stand up into a tree.

From then on, the descendants of the ant tree can only grow short and small, prostrate on the ground, and then by the later generations of people called the ant dish.

The grateful sun made a vow to the badly wounded ant tree: never to harm its descendants. Today, no amount of hot sunlight can kill an ant dish unless you wilt it with boiling water or mix it with grass ash, like the villagers.

Sun-dried and preserved after passing through hot water, it can be wrapped and troweled for eating in the Spring Festival, and every rural household will pick some of it in the summer.

Cool ants vegetable practice:

1. will pick back to the ants vegetable to remove the old teeth, picked and washed

2. after boiling water pot blanch half a minute.

3. Add cold water and ice for a few minutes.

4. Add salt, monosodium glutamate, garlic, sugar, chili oil. Mix well.

5. An appetizer success.

Tips

Ant dishes blanched, with cold water ice for a while, you can remove the bitter taste of ant dishes.