How to pickle sweet and sour buckwheat

The most indispensable food for Chinese people is pickles. Every morning they have a bowl of porridge and a bowl of pickles, which is delicious and good for the stomach. When you are sick, eating pickled vegetables with porridge can really whet your appetite. Buckwheat is a rare wild vegetable that is both nutritious and cheap. It is also a favorite food of many elderly people. Keeping a few jars of pickled sweet and sour buckwheat at home is considered a home life.

1. How to pickle sweet and sour radish

Ingredients: soybeans; auxiliary ingredients: vinegar, soy sauce, rock sugar, salt.

practice:

1. Wash the fresh buckwheat heads to remove the mud and sand, peel off the older outer layer, remove them from the shell and drain the water, cut off the two ends and put them in a large bowl.

2. Add 2 spoons of salt, mix well, cover and marinate for 1 hour. (It is best if the bowl has a lid. If it does not have a lid, seal the mouth of the bowl with plastic wrap. Hygiene is very important when pickling pickles).

3. Pour out the marinating water, then add rock sugar, vinegar, and soy sauce, stir well, cover with a lid, and leave for 30 minutes until the rock sugar melts. Use chopsticks to dip some of the pickled buckwheat juice, taste it, and adjust it to a sweet and sour flavor that suits your taste. This method is the most direct. Not necessarily exactly to scale.

4. When the flavor is right, put it into a clean, sealable glass container and marinate it at room temperature for a week until it is fully flavored.

2. Nutritional value

Nutritional value and uses: Scallion is rich in nutrients, containing 16 grams of protein, 6 grams of fat, 80 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of ash, 640 milligrams of calcium, 320 milligrams of phosphorus, 210 milligrams of iron, 140 milligrams of vitamin C, 0.2 milligrams of thiamine, 1.2 milligrams of riboflavin, and 8 milligrams of niacin per kilogram of edible part.

3. Edible effects

1. Digestion: It helps in the secretion of gastric acid and the digestion of food, and is suitable for the treatment of food stagnation syndrome. 2. Stop vomiting and relieve belching: reduce stomach qi and regulate the spleen and stomach. 3. Soothe the stomach: warm the stomach and treat stomach cold. 4. Strengthen the spleen: It is suitable for symptoms such as abdominal distension, loose stools, loss of appetite, limb fatigue, etc. caused by spleen deficiency and inability to transport and transform qi. 5. Soothe the mind and relieve restlessness: Relieve fatigue, irritability, dizziness, insomnia, night sweats, lack of concentration, forgetfulness, extreme thirst, depression, chemical disorders, and even hallucinations caused by insufficient glucose supply to the brain.