Chapter 163 163 Grass Buds and Dandelions

Chapter 163 163. Mao Yaer and Dandelion

Zhang Yanping's memory of childhood has been blurred.

After all, he has lived in the city for a long time, and occasionally visiting his hometown is just for summer vacation.

At this moment, I saw Qiao Qiao squatting down and digging grass roots with Grandma Qi skillfully, and I couldn't help but be shocked:

"Is it really delicious?"

"Eat."

Qiao Qiao said confidently, and then pulled out a thick white grass root and raised it: "Brother, do you want to eat it? It's so sweet."

When he said this, Zhang Yanping was a little eager to try, but the grass roots just put water in the ditch...

So he also dug along with him in a strange way: "Let's dig it first, then go home and wash it before eating."

As he spoke, he spotted a patch of lush green grass and dug down with the shovel. Then he was stopped by Grandma Qi:

"This silly kid, there's Mao Ya'er on top, he doesn't know how to eat it!"

As he spoke, he pulled out a thin, plump green bud from the heart of the grass with a gentle pull.

Qiaoqiao couldn't wait to take it, and saw the blades of grass peeling off, revealing a soft white plush-like thing inside.

And he stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation, and then smiled at Grandma Qi: "It's so tender and soft."

Grandma Qi also laughed, her shriveled cheeks looking very lively: "Young, right? Early April is the right time to eat Mao Ya'er."

"On the contrary, the Imperata cogongrass roots are eaten too early. They have sprouted this season, are no longer nutritious, and are not so sweet. After the rice is ripe, its taste will gradually improve."

"Come on, don't dig up the roots. Qiao Qiao will pick out some more sprouts here. I see this one is growing really tender!"

Zhang Yanping has a lot of experience.

Look at how happily Qiao Qiao eats it, it must taste good!

So he picked around, picked the tallest and fattest one, with the white hair inside almost exposed, and pulled it out!

Then he peeled off the grass blades, looked at the thick and fat hair, and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

However, the more he chewed, the weirder his face became, and finally he spat out, "Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah!" "Why do I feel like what I'm eating is like fur!"

I saw Qiao Qiao laughing next to me: "Brother, you are so stupid. You are already old, so you have to choose something tender like this!"

He already had a small handful in his fist.

Grandma Qi also saw that Qiao Qiao had a filter. She didn’t care about anything at the moment. She praised her first and then said: "Yes, our Qiao Qiao is so smart and picks young ones. If I had come here last month, It’s probably more tender and tastier.”

Zhang Yanping:......

He was the only one injured in the world.

But all the white hairs went into his mouth. He was unwilling to eat the tender ones and taste the real taste, so he squatted down again and started pulling at the young grasses.

The seventh cousin at the other end was squatting in the deserted field and groaning angrily: A group of people are here to eat snacks, and they can't find any food for lunch?

Looking at his basket, there are already more than a dozen dandelions dug out of their newly grown leaves.

Seeing Zhang Yanping holding a few buds in his hand and eager to come over, he quickly shouted in advance: "Hurry up and dig up the dandelions, don't want the blooming ones, and don't want the ones with buds."

The seventh cousin does not wander around blindly every day. He can clearly see which fields grow more.

For example, in the wasteland next door, there are a lot of shepherd's purses growing, but you can tell at a glance that they are too old to make dumplings fresh and are not in season.

Looking at the dandelions here, there were more than a dozen small yellow flowers blooming sparsely, and many of them still had tender green leaves, so he picked the right one without hesitation.

When Qiao Qiao came over, he taught in the same old way:

"This is called dandelion, also known as yellow flower ground bark and mother-in-law bark. When we eat, we usually eat these young shoots."

"The functions are to clear away heat and detoxify, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, reduce inflammation and cool blood. If you have a sore throat, sore gums, gastritis or urinary tract infection, you can take it."

Qiaoqiao still only repeated what he could remember:

"You can take it if you have pain when urinating, toothache, stomachache or throat. It can clear away heat and detoxify, resolve phlegm and relieve cough."

The seventh cousin's face was obviously depressed.

"Not everyone with a stomachache can eat...forget it, don't forget this, just remember the rest."

"Come on," he shouted, "haven't you finished pulling out those few sprouts? Hurry up and dig up the dandelions."

Otherwise, it is said that the seventh cousin can eat it.

The group of people dug up a few small boxes of young dandelions. When they got home, he dug out a bag of mung beans, washed them and soaked them first.

Then a group of people started picking dandelions again, removing the old stems and roots, washing the leaves, and piled a basketful of green and juicy wild vegetables.

The seventh cousin looked at the basket of vegetables and felt proud, but at the same time he took a breath and covered his cheeks, and said depressedly: "Look at what you can eat each one. There are only a few of you. A meal of vegetables only costs this much." A basket!"

The disadvantage is that in rural areas, there are many vegetable fields. If it is an urban area, it will go bankrupt sooner or later.

Just as he was talking, Song Tan and Song Sancheng had returned from the mountain.

The mountainous land in that area has been plowed for a long time. To plant beans, you only need to scatter the beans on the columbine level. The amount of work is not large.

However, Song Sancheng obviously couldn't sit still. As soon as he got home, he put away the hoe and rake, turned around and went up the back mountain with the shovel:

"Dad, please take a rest!"

"I didn't work, why should I rest!" Song Sancheng smiled - he really didn't work. His daughter wielded the hoe better than a standard farmer, and he followed behind to spread beans, doing nothing.

"Isn't your uncle Zhang still preparing fertilizer recently? I see that the chickens, ducks and pigs on our mountain are very good at pulling. His legs and feet are not convenient, so I helped him shovel them out."

Here, the seventh cousin has started to teach Qiao Qiao to cook again.

First, he instructed Qiao Qiao to wash the soaked mung beans, and then asked him to add salt to it and marinate for five minutes.

Just adding salt to the mung beans made everyone stunned.

Then, boil water in a big pot, put the dandelions in and cook for fifteen minutes, and cook them into a mushy mess. Then use a colander to scoop out the dandelions, leaving only the juice, and then put in the mung beans.

The hairy mung beans are easy to cook and cooked in a short while. He added salt, MSG, chicken essence, and sesame oil for seasoning. It tasted salty, fragrant, and slightly bitter, and it also had the unique taste of eating beans.

It was strange, but it tasted good.

After it was cooked, he put it in a bowl and put it in the water pot in front of the stove to warm it.

Then, the seventh cousin arranged Qiao Qiao to run around.

First, he washed the pot, washed the rice, and cooked the rice. Here, he took the freshly cleaned dandelion seedlings out of the water and wrung out the water with gauze.

Crack a few eggs, add glutinous rice flour, dry bean flour, and seasonings, mix them well, and make egg rice bean flour.

Then heat the pan, add salt and stir-fry until slightly yellow, and finally add pepper powder and mix well.

A bowl of thick paste is ready!

Then heat the oil in the pan, wait until the oil is hot, then wrap the dandelion in the paste, fry it directly in the pan to shape it, and then take it out.

This is pepper and salt dandelion, crispy!

When it was fried again and served, the whole yard was filled with this unique spicy aroma.

The recipes are all from "New Special Dishes in the Mountains and Fields". If you can't make it delicious, it must be your cooking skills, you can't blame me, hahaha.