How to make ant vegetable delicious? Precautions for eating ant vegetable

Ant grass is often called purslane by hardworking farmers. It is a natural outdoor delicacy, but when picking ant grass, you should be careful not to pick it on the roadside. It is best to pick fresh, shiny wild vegetables in the suburbs. In addition, the picked ant grass should be soaked in clean water for more than two hours to ensure safety and hygiene. Only in this way can you eat green, healthy and pollution-free pure vegetables. The following is how to make ant grass taste better.

Contents of this article

1. What is the scientific name of Antweed?

2. How to make delicious ant vegetables

3. Precautions for eating ant vegetables

What is the scientific name of ant grass?

The scientific name of ant vegetable is Portulaca oleracea.

Antweed is an annual herb, the whole plant is smooth and hairless, thick, juicy, about 30cm high. The stem is cylindrical, lying flat at the bottom, oblique or erect at the top, multi-branched, often purple.

Ant vegetable contains vitamins A, B1, B2, PP, C, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron salts, and rich vitamin C content of up to 30-35 mg/100g; it also contains saponins, tannins, resins, fats, urea and other nutrients. It also contains a variety of potassium salts, such as potassium oxalate, potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate, potassium chloride, etc.

How to make delicious ant vegetables

1. Cold-mixed ant vegetables: Wash and blanch the ant vegetables, rinse with cold water and drain. Mix vinegar, light soy sauce, sugar, salt, sesame oil, MSG, etc. evenly, pour it on the ant vegetables and mix well.

2. Stir-fried ant greens: Wash and blanch the ant greens, rinse with cold water and drain, sauté the scallions and garlic in a pan, add the ant greens and stir-fry until soft, add appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence, stir-fry evenly.

3. Ant vegetable porridge: Wash and blanch the ant vegetables, rinse with cold water, drain and chop, heat the oil in a pan, add the chopped ant vegetables, add appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence, stir-fry until cooked, and serve. Wash the rice and add it to the pot. Cook until the rice blooms, then add the ant vegetables and cook until it becomes porridge.

4. Steamed ant greens: Wash and cut the ant greens into sections, add an appropriate amount of salt and rub them. Add an appropriate amount of flour and stir until each piece of ant greens is covered with flour. Then add the ant greens to the steamer and steam them for about fifteen minutes. Use soy sauce, vinegar, chili oil, etc. to make a sauce and pour it on the ant greens.

Precautions for eating ant vegetables

1. Ants must be eaten in small amounts, and you can eat more after you get used to it. You can only add white sugar, not brown sugar, because brown sugar is warm in nature, which goes against the direction of treatment.

2. Ant vegetable is a cold food. People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea and pregnant women should avoid eating it.

3. People who have diarrhea caused by abdominal cold, or if it is simply general diarrhea caused by cold, do not eat it by mistake.

4. If you are taking Chinese medicine and there is turtle shell in the prescription, be aware that ant grass and turtle shell are incompatible and should not be taken together.

5. When picking ant greens, you should be careful not to pick them on the roadside, as they are easily contaminated by car exhaust and pesticides. It is best to pick fresh, shiny wild vegetables from the suburbs. In addition, the ant greens you pick should be soaked in clean water for more than two hours to ensure safety and hygiene.