When is fennel eaten? Is fennel a cooling or warming food?

Fennel sprouts are a kind of spicy vegetable. Its tender stems and leaves are edible. Its seeds can be used as medicine or spices. Fennel sprouts have a special aroma and people often use them as stuffing. Fennel sprouts are one of the most nutritious vegetables. Tender fennel sprouts are delicious when added with meat or eggs to make dumplings or steamed buns. You can try it when you have nothing to do!

Contents of this article

1. When is the best season to eat fennel?

2. Is fennel a cool or hot vegetable?

3. How to cook fennel

When is fennel eaten?

Fennel sprouts are also known as fennel vegetables and fragrant silk vegetables.

Fennel sprouts are a kind of spicy vegetable. Its tender stems and leaves are edible. Its seeds can be used as medicine or spices. Fennel sprouts have a special aroma and are often used as stuffing. Fennel sprouts are one of the most nutritious vegetables. It has high content of carotene and calcium, and also high content of vitamins B1, B2, C, PP and iron.

Fennel sprouts are best eaten in June of the Gregorian calendar. The tender fennel sprouts are delicious when added to meat or eggs to make dumplings or steamed buns.

Fennel seedlings and leaves can be pounded to extract juice for drinking or external application to treat malignant carbuncle. The main ingredient is fennel oil, which can stimulate gastrointestinal nerves and blood vessels, promote the secretion of digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal motility, and eliminate accumulated gas, so it has the effect of strengthening the stomach and promoting qi; sometimes gastrointestinal motility will decrease after excitement, so it helps to relieve spasms and reduce pain.

Good quality fennel is earthy yellow or yellow-green in color, shaped like rice, large and long, full in texture, bright and shiny, with a strong licorice aroma, and fewer stalks and impurities. In addition, you must check the dryness and humidity of fennel. Usually, it is better to buy it in bulk. If it is bottled, you can turn the bottle upside down. If it flows smoothly, it is dry. If it feels sticky, it is a little damp. Bad fennel is green in color, uneven in size, and has a lot of impurities and dust when you pick it up. It smells bad and has no licorice aroma.

Is fennel cooling or heating?

Fennel is warm in nature.

Judging from these two properties alone, fennel belongs to neither of them. It is neither cold nor hot. It is relatively mild and can regulate the stomach and intestines very well.

How to cook fennel

Ingredients: 500 grams of fennel, 500 grams of pork filling, appropriate amounts of green onion, ginger, five-spice powder, salt, chicken essence, sesame oil, light soy sauce, dumpling wrappers, and salad oil.

practice:

1. Wash the fennel, drain the water, and chop it for later use.

2. Chop the green onion and ginger and add them to the meat filling and mix well.

3. Add appropriate amount of salt, chicken essence, light soy sauce, five-spice powder and salad oil and mix well.

4. Pour in fennel and stir evenly, making sure to stir in one direction.

5. Then wrap the prepared dumpling filling into dumplings.

6. Boil water in a pot, put the dumplings in after the water boils, and cook until the dumplings float completely.

Ingredients: 150 grams of fennel, 3 eggs, 100 grams of flour, and appropriate amounts of vegetable oil and salt.

practice:

1. Wash the fennel, drain the water, cut it into small pieces and put it in a bowl.

2. Crack the eggs into the pot and beat them in a clockwise direction.

3. Pour in flour and a little salt and continue to stir into batter until there are no particles.

4. Put a small amount of oil in a frying pan and heat it.

5. Pour the batter in and fry over low heat until both sides are golden brown.