Who can't eat fennel? How to make fennel dumplings

Fennel is a vegetable that is often used as a filling for dumplings. Since "fennel" and "returning home" have the same pronunciation, many places in the north like to make dumplings with fennel filling during the Spring Festival. It has a special aroma and is very popular in the north. Today we will share with you who should not eat fennel. Do you know?

Contents of this article

1. Who should not eat fennel?

2. How to make fennel dumplings

3. How to eat fennel

Who can't eat fennel?

People who cannot eat fennel include: People with allergic constitutions are not suitable for eating fennel. Because it can cause certain allergic reactions. It is also forbidden for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire. There are many records in ancient books: "Compendium of Materia Medica": "If the stomach and kidneys are too hot, vomiting, pain, and swelling when heated, and those with frequent erections, spermatorrhea, and nocturnal emission, it should be used with discretion." "Compendium of Materia Medica" also has a description: "If the small intestine, bladder, and stomach are suffering from heat, it will increase the disease." "Depei Materia Medica": "It is forbidden for those with heat in the lungs and stomach and strong heat toxicity." There are particularities in the consumption of fennel, and it should not be eaten too much: because eating too much fennel will have the side effect of damaging eyesight, it is not suitable for short-term and large-scale use, and the upper limit should be 10 grams per day. It is hot and dry in nature, and is more suitable for people with deficiency and cold constitutions, and the amount consumed each time should not be too much.

How to make fennel dumplings

Ingredients: 750g fennel seedlings, 800g flour, 600g pork filling, 30g oil, a large piece of ginger, 1 teaspoon of pepper, 20g soy sauce, and 1.5 teaspoons of fine salt.

1. Wash and dry the fennel seedlings. Knead the flour into a soft dough and set aside.

2. Boil the peppercorns and ginger in water, let them cool, then remove the peppercorns and ginger.

3. Pour the pepper and ginger water into the pork filling, stirring the meat while pouring.

4. Because fennel sprouts are used as the filling, the meat filling should be stirred into a thin paste. It is best if the meat filling can flow when you pick it up with chopsticks. Otherwise, the dumpling filling will be too dry and not juicy.

5. Chop the fennel sprouts and add them to the minced meat. Add cooked oil, salt and soy sauce and mix well to make it taste good.

6. Knead the dough again until it is soft and oily. Cut the dough into small pieces, roll them into dumpling wrappers, wrap the prepared dumpling fillings, and shape them into dumplings.

7. Put the wrapped dumplings into the boiling water.

8. Add cold water several times in the middle.

9. Cover the pot and cook the filling while the skin is boiling. When the dumplings are plump and swollen, you can take them out and enjoy them. Add some old vinegar and garlic paste to the dumplings. Oh, don't forget to have another bowl of dumpling soup...

How to eat fennel

Fennel is a vegetable that is mostly used as stuffing for steamed buns and dumplings. Like its seeds (fennel), it has a special aroma. It is very popular in the north but rare in the south.

Since "fennel" and "returning home" have the same pronunciation, many places in the north like to make dumplings stuffed with fennel meat during the Spring Festival. Usually, people like to use fennel and pork together to make stuffing for buns, dumplings, spring rolls, etc., and rarely make stir-fried dishes, but they can also be stir-fried with eggs and minced meat or even stir-fried, or they can be used with minced meat to make soup. However, fennel has a strong aroma when eaten as a vegetarian dish, so it is better to pair it with some meat or eggs and more fat. Northerners generally believe that fennel is more "greasy", so when making buns and dumplings, they usually add more fat to make them taste better. And because fennel itself can relieve greasiness, doing so is not harmful to health.