How to make delicious taro stems

Taro stems are actually a traditional Chinese medicinal material, and they can often be seen especially in southern and northern my country. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, taro stems can not only help the human body detoxify, but also have the effect of removing blood stasis. If you are accidentally stung by a bee, you can also use taro stems to treat it. So the question is, if taro stems are used for human consumption, how can they be cooked to be most delicious?

Recommended approach:

450g taro stems, half a pound of soybean paste, 30g shredded ginger, 1 shredded chili, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon MSG, 1 tablespoon sugar, half a teaspoon white vinegar, 1.5 cups of water

Tear off the skin of the taro stalks with your hands, cut into sections, and slice if there are small taro. Deep-fry in 120℃ oil for 3 minutes, then blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes and set aside.

Heat up a pan with oil, sauté shredded ginger, chili and soybean paste, then add taro stalks and slices, add seasoning, simmer for 5 to 8 minutes and serve.

Morphological characteristics

Wet-growing herb. The rhizome is ovate, often bearing many small bulbs, brown and ciliated. The leaves are basal, 2-3 or more, with fleshy petioles, 20-90cm long, green, and sheath-like at the base; the leaf blades are ovate-broadly elliptic, 20-50cm long, thick, peltate, with short and sharp tips, ear-shaped at the base, obtuse auricles, entire margins, and wavy. Inflorescence stalk is often solitary, shorter than petiole; spathe varies in length, generally about 20cm long; tube is green, about 4cm long, 2.2cm thick, and oblong; eave is lanceolate or elliptical, about 17cm long, unfolded into a boat shape, with involute edges, light yellow to greenish white; spadix is ​​about 10cm long, shorter than spathe; female inflorescence is located at the bottom, 3-3.5cm long, neutral inflorescence is located in the middle, 3-3.3cm long, male inflorescence is located at the top, 4-4.5cm long, with abruptly narrowed tip, and appendages are subulate, about 1cm long. Flowering period is from February to August.

Indications

Used for urticaria, allergic purpura, diarrhea, dysentery, night sweats in children, impetigo, swelling and toxicity, snake head boils, and bee stings.