Bamboo Joint Grass, a Chinese medicine. It is the whole plant of the plant Bamboo Joint Grass of the family Asteraceae. It is distributed in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet and other places. It has high medicinal and ornamental value. So, what are the ways to eat Bamboo Joint Grass? Let me answer that for you comprehensively.
【Morphology of Bamboo Joint Grass】
Bamboo Joint Grass is an annual herb. The stems are creeping. Roots grow on the nodes (very rarely non-creeping), and can grow up to more than 1 meter long. They are mostly branched, and some have branches on each node. They are hairless or have a row of short stiff hairs, or covered with short stiff hairs.
The leaves are lanceolate or elliptic in the lower part of the branches, 3-12 cm long, 0.8-3 cm wide, usually gradually pointed at the apex, rarely acute, hairless or covered with stiff hairs;
There are often red spots on the leaf sheaths, and there are only stiff hairs on the mouth and one side, or covered with stiff hairs. The cymose inflorescence is usually solitary in the axil of the upper leaves of the branches, sometimes pseudo-terminal, generally with only one inflorescence on each branch;
The involucral bracts have a stalk about 2-4 cm long, folded, and when spread out, they are ovoid-lanceolate, gradually pointed or short-pointed at the apex, heart-shaped or round at the base, hairless or covered with short stiff hairs on the outside;
The inflorescence forks from the base; one branch has a peduncle about 1.5-2 cm long, perpendicular to the involucre, and forms a straight line with the stalk of the involucre. It has 1-4 flowers, which extend far beyond the involucral bracts, but they are all sterile;
The other branch has a much shorter peduncle, perpendicular to it, and in the same direction as the involucre. It has 3-5 fertile flowers inside the involucral bracts; the bracts are very small, almost invisible;
【Ways to Eat Bamboo Joint Grass】
There are many ways to eat Bamboo Joint Grass. It can be stir-fried, cold mixed, made into porridge, or sun-dried and cooked with pork belly.
1. Cooked into porridge
Cooking Bamboo Joint Grass into porridge is a common way to eat it. White rice porridge with Bamboo Joint Grass, one green and one white, is a natural combination.
2. Stir-fried
When stir-frying Bamboo Joint Grass, it is better to put more oil than usual stir-frying because Bamboo Joint Grass absorbs more oil. But don't stir-fry it for too long, just stir-fry it once, and the aroma will come out, 30 seconds is enough.
Bamboo Joint Grass can be stir-fried directly, or it can be stir-fried with meat. The most common is to stir-fry it with salted pork belly. First, cut the salted pork belly into small cubes and put it in the wok to fry. When the cubes turn golden brown, pour in the pre-prepared Bamboo Joint Grass, without adding water, add a little salt, stir-fry over high heat and it's ready.
3. Cold mixed
Cold mixing is the simplest way to eat Bamboo Joint Grass, and the most delicious one is Fragrant Tofu Bamboo Joint Grass. Let the fragrant tofu absorb the fragrance of Bamboo Joint Grass, then add sesame oil and chili powder. The taste is unique, and you can feel refreshed even without eating it.
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