Pickled Pepper Snail Vegetable

Snail vegetable is a kind of pickled vegetable which is a specialty of Yangzhou. It is difficult for many people to taste this delicacy if they have never been to Yangzhou. Even many people who have left their hometown can only make the pickled pepper snail dish by themselves to taste the most authentic delicacy of their hometown. So, what is pickled pepper snail dish? Next, we will introduce to you this pickled dish with Yangzhou characteristics and see how it has come to the tables of ordinary people.

Screw vegetable, also known as lotus root (common name). It is the tuber of the grass silkworm of the Lamiaceae family, a perennial herb. The tuber is tender and crispy and can be made into candied fruits, sauces, and pickles, which are very delicious. When eating, mainly cold salad

It can also be processed into pickles, canned food, sweet fruits, etc. It is one of the world-famous "Eight Treasures Dishes" and "Assorted Dishes". Yangzhou canned snail vegetables are the best pickles.

Screw vegetable is a perennial herb. There are creeping branches underground, and when mature, the top swells into a spiral fleshy tuber. The stem is erect, 30 to 120 cm high, square, with opposite leaves, ovate to oblong-ovate, and covered with short stiff hairs on both sides. It blooms in summer, with lip-shaped, light purple flowers in cymes; the corolla is about 1.2 cm long, with a hairy ring inside the tube, the upper lip is upright, the lower lip is three-lobed, and the middle lobe is nearly round. The nutlets are oval and tuberculate. It likes to grow in warm and humid places or near water.

It can be found wild or cultivated throughout my country, but is rare in western Beijing, where it is mostly found in Hebei and other places bordering western Beijing.

Suitable for people

It is edible for general population.

1. It is especially suitable for patients with wind-heat cold, consumptive cough, infantile malnutrition and pneumonia. At the same time, patients with jaundice, asthma, lung deficiency, kidney deficiency, low back pain, lymph tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis and other diseases can also eat more.

Dietary effects

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The grass silkworm can be used as both food and medicine, and its nature and flavor are sweet and flat;

It can dispel wind and heat, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, detoxify and reduce swelling, moisten the lungs and benefit the kidneys, nourish yin and blood, and strengthen the body;

It can treat colds, fever, cough, jaundice, asthma, lung deficiency cough and asthma, kidney deficiency and low back pain, lymph tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis and other diseases.

The above-ground stems and leaves can also treat rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis, snake bites, and relieve blood stasis and pain.

Other related

The underground stems are nectar and can be pickled or made into sauce for consumption.

Ganlu is the signature ingredient of Jingxi kimchi. Without Ganlu, it would not be the ideal kimchi. People in western Beijing also have the habit of making nectar with sauce, which is mainly pickled with the sauce of western Beijing's old yellow sauce and its "soy sauce".

The pickled ganlu is white and yellow in color, tastes salty and fresh, and has a strong sauce flavor. It is said that when Empress Dowager Cixi traveled west, she tasted the soybean sauce made by common people. She praised it highly and ordered the imperial chef to prepare it at "Liubiju" outside Qianmen.

Therefore, the owner of the time-honored Chinese brand "Liubiju" immediately sent people to the west of Beijing to collect nectar and learn the method. After repeated pickling, they finally created the famous brand of "Gaojiang Ganlu". Later, they pickled the "Babaocai" with unique flavor containing nectar, which is famous both at home and abroad...

"Yinshan Zhengyao" states that "it benefits the five internal organs, relieves qi, and clears the mind."

"Luchuan Materia Medica" records that "it nourishes and strengthens the body, clears the lungs and replenishes the body's energy, and its effects are similar to those of Cordyceps. It can treat weight loss, consumptive cough, and malnutrition in children." Manna is also used for medicinal purposes. The whole herb can be boiled to treat pneumonia and other diseases.