Most traditional Chinese medicine can be used as both medicine and food. Today, I will introduce the medicinal and culinary uses of prickly bamboo shoots. What is the method for cooking pork with prickly bamboo shoots?
Image of prickly bamboo shoots
【Name】
Pork with prickly bamboo shoots
【Ingredients】
Pork belly, prickly bamboo shoots
Green onion, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, rock sugar, dark soy sauce (a little bit), Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, dried chili peppers, salt
【Instructions】
1. Wash and cut the pork belly into pieces. Blanch in boiling water, then remove and drain.
2. Peel and cut the prickly bamboo shoots into pieces. Blanch in boiling water with a little salt, then remove and rinse.
3. Prepare green onion, ginger, garlic, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon, and dried chili peppers.
4. Heat the pork belly in a pan over medium heat until the oil is slowly rendered.
5. In the rendered oil from the pork belly (if there is too much oil, you can remove some), add the rock sugar and cook over low heat until it turns yellow and forms small bubbles.
6. Once the rock sugar has melted and small bubbles have formed, immediately add the pork belly and continue stirring over low heat to brown.
7. Add cooking wine, a little dark soy sauce (adjust according to desired color), and all the other seasonings except for salt. Then add the prickly bamboo shoots and stir-fry.
【Benefits and Effects of Prickly Bamboo Shoots】
Prickly bamboo shoots have powerful medicinal properties, including heat-clearing, phlegm-dissolving, qi-tonifying, and stomach-strengthening effects. They can also treat excessive thirst, promote diuresis, and have low fat, low sugar, and high fiber content.
Consuming prickly bamboo shoots can promote intestinal peristalsis, aid digestion, relieve food stagnation, prevent constipation, and even help prevent colorectal cancer.
1. For treating indigestion and dysentery, take 30-60g of prickly bamboo shoots and decoct in water, or drink 30-60g of prickly bamboo shoot water. (From "National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine")
2. For treating splinters stuck in the flesh, make a paste with prickly bamboo shoots, rice wine lees, Plantago seeds, and salt. Apply the paste to the affected area. (From "Lingnan Medicinal Plants Compilation")
