How to cut radish?

Carrot is a crispy and delicious vegetable with rich nutritional value. It is even called "little ginseng". Carrots are rich in sugar, fat, carotene, multiple vitamins, calcium, iron and other nutrients. Eating them regularly can improve immunity, whiten the skin, etc. There are many ways to eat carrots, and carrot radish is one of the most popular ways. So, how to cut radish?

Steps to cut carrot skin

1. Take a carrot of appropriate thickness, place it on the chopping board, place a chopstick horizontally on the top and bottom of the carrot, and use a kitchen knife to cut parallel marks at equal intervals on the entire surface of the carrot perpendicular to the direction of the chopsticks.

2. Rotate the carrot 90° horizontally between the chopsticks so that the cut marks are parallel to the chopsticks.

3. Then turn the carrot over, keeping the knife marks parallel to the chopsticks, with the uncut side facing up, and cut several marks using the same method.

4. The finer the intervals between the knife marks, the easier it is for the carrots to deform and the more flavorful they will be after being cut.

Dishes

The old Jinan store "Bei Houji" used to sell a kind of pickled radish named "蓑衣萝卜", which has disappeared for many years. Bei Houji was originally a private enterprise with a front shop and a back factory that produced soy sauce, vinegar, pickles and other side dishes. Its original location was on the south side of Jiangjiachi, opposite the current telecommunications building, but it was demolished due to road widening. Before the demolition, there was a stone sign above the door plaque of Beihouji, engraved with the words "Our store makes fine yellow rice sake and sun-dried soy sauce", and on the gable leading to Jiangjia Pond was engraved "Homeland food, everything you need, delivered on time". The soy sauce, rice wine, pickles, seasonings, etc. produced here are well-known far and wide.

Let’s talk about the pickling of shredded radish later. The radish selected must be the semi-green radish produced in Beiyuan, Jinan, that is, the upper part of the radish is green and the lower part is white. This is also the origin of a Jinan proverb, called "The radish in the north garden - half green", which describes a person who speaks and acts in a careless, unstable and immature manner. Use a knife to trim the radish, but do not completely remove the tail. Wash and dry it. Then use a knife to cut it dozens of times horizontally and vertically to make it into multiple small square strips of radish, but do not cut through it, and leave the tail, so that it still looks like a whole radish if you don't shake it open. After cutting, tie the cut radishes with a piece of clean thin straw and put them into the pickle jar for pickling. After pickling, take them out and sell them.

When the buyer eats it, he can untie the straw, hold the radish tail in one hand, and break off a radish with the other hand and put it into his mouth. Because one radish becomes multiple radish strips and becomes scattered and uneven when shaken, it is called蓑衣萝卜.