How to prepare fresh daylily before eating? How to eat daylily

Although daylily has high nutritional value, fresh daylily contains a large amount of colchicine, which can cause poisoning if consumed directly and affect life safety. Therefore, before cooking daylily, it is best to blanch it in water to reduce the toxin content. Today, let’s discuss how to process fresh daylily before eating.

Contents of this article

1. How to prepare fresh daylily before eating

2. How to eat daylily

3. How to cook daylily

How to prepare fresh daylily before eating

First, fresh daylily needs to be soaked in salt water for 2 hours.

Second, fresh daylily needs to be dried in the sun.

Third, the stamens of fresh daylily should be removed. Fourth, it is best to blanch the dried daylily before cooking. The stamens of daylily contain colchicine, which is poisonous and cannot be eaten.

Daylily, also known as golden needle vegetable, lemon daylily, and forget-me-not, is a perennial herb belonging to the Liliales, Liliaceae family. The flowers are light yellow, orange-red, and black-purple. The flowering and fruiting period is from May to September.

Daylily is cultivated in all parts of China, mostly distributed in areas south of the Qinling Mountains, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Jilin, Guangdong, and Inner Mongolia.

Qu County in Sichuan is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Daylilies". Shaodong County and Qidong County are named "Origin of Daylilies". Daylilies produced in Qingyang, Gansu are of high quality and are exported overseas.

How to eat daylily

Day lily can be eaten cold, cooked into porridge, made into soup, or stir-fried. Day lily contains vitamins and amino acids, which are beneficial to the human body. However, when eating day lily, you cannot eat donkey meat, quail or pigeon meat to avoid physical discomfort. Also, you need to be careful before eating day lily to blanch it before cooking to avoid excessive content of colchicum in the day lily.

1. How to eat

Daylily can be eaten cold, cooked in porridge, stewed in soup, or stir-fried. Daylily contains carotene, vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, fat, dietary fiber and other nutrients, which are good for the human body.

2. Food taboos

When eating day lily, it is not advisable to eat donkey meat, quail, or pigeon meat, so as to avoid getting angry and constipation. Day lily should not be eaten with dried tofu or shiitake mushrooms, otherwise it will reduce its nutritional value and cause vomiting symptoms in the human body.

3. Notes

Although daylily has high nutritional value, fresh daylily contains a large amount of colchicine, which can cause poisoning if consumed directly and affect life safety. Therefore, before cooking daylily, it is best to blanch it in water to reduce the toxin content.

How to make daylily

Heat oil in a pan and add shredded pork until it changes color, then add onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in a proper amount of bean paste and stir-fry evenly, pour in day lily and continue to stir-fry, then add a proper amount of salt. Finally, add a small amount of water and stir-fry until cooked and serve on a plate. The delicious stir-fried meat with dried day lily is ready.

Prepare ingredients: dried day lily, pork, salt, onion, ginger, bean paste, and seasoning oil.

1. Soak the dried day lily in water in advance and remove the roots. Cut the pork into shreds, cut the green onions into chopped green onions, and cut the ginger into shreds for later use.

2. Heat oil in a pan, add shredded pork and stir-fry until it changes color, then add onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant.

3. Pour a proper amount of bean paste into the pot and stir-fry evenly, then pour in the day lily and continue to stir-fry, then add a proper amount of salt.

4. Finally, add a small amount of water, stir-fry until cooked and serve. The delicious stir-fried meat with dried day lily is ready.