The value of pickled pickles in Tet trays

The pickles not only increase the appetite for the meal, they also contribute to the digestive organs working well.

"The fat melon is the red sentence / The tree shows the green crackers." Pickles are traditional dishes that appear daily on Vietnamese dining tables. On Tet holiday, the dishes often contain lots of protein and fat, so it is easy to be bored and can cause bloating due to indigestion, especially, besides the banh chung, frozen meat or meat stock without the pickles. lost the meaning of the Tet holiday. Not only does it increase appetite for meals, it also contributes to the digestive organs working well.

Salted pickles in traditional cuisine are processed according to the rules: sour, spicy, salty, bitter, combining the sweet sweetness of soy sauce, rice soup or other fruits to increase saliva; Pickles often crunchy crisp, color and charming fragrance of eyes (can), tongue (mind), mouth (spleen), nose (scrap) and ears (kidneys) increase flavor and increase the quality of meals - the main source of energy for life. Pickle dishes are often less attentive in family meals, unfortunately if we understand its true value.

1. Pickled sauerkraut

Technique of pickled pickled salt

10kg mustard leaves, alum sour 50 - 100g, salt to eat 600 - 700g. Choose old mustard leaves and crackers (soon-to-be flowering plants - about to flower and have no fiber) to wash, dry, wilt, pour over with boiling water, put in the jar. Cover up the bamboo (bamboo) to prevent the vegetables from floating on the salt water. Dissolve salts and alum in hot water (about 3-5 liters), filter, cool, pour into pots (vermicelli, vermicelli) with vegetables. Salt water must be flooded on the blister. Keep the container closed. After a few days, the vegetables turn to the grass color, sour water is pickled. To limit the pickles too, you can pick up the melon into a plastic box or collect it, put it in the refrigerator to use it gradually.

In cabbage leaves (cabbage, green mustard) have protid, lipid, glucide, celulose, carotene, vitamin C, amino acid, elements of Ca, P, Fe. When salted, in an oxygen-deficient environment and a salt concentration of about ≥ 4% is a favorable condition for lactobacilli to grow. Most of the glucide in vegetables turns into lactic acid; vitamins B and C decreased by about 10%; protid, fat, mineral salts and microelements are less variable. For every 100g of broccoli, there are 85.6g of water, 1.7g of protid, 2.3g of lactic acid, 2.3g of fiber, 3.4g of ash; Heat capacity of 16 calories / 100g. In water pickles with lactic acid and lactic yeast have a positive effect on inhibiting harmful rotting in the intestinal tract, can use melon juice during meals; but must ensure proper hygiene and salt.

How to salt the melon, folk called salt xua . The common way of salt of the people in the North in the winter near the Lunar New Year: Vegetables are washed, withered, put a leaf, sprinkle with a sea of ​​salt . finally put a heavy weight (stone, Terracotta lumps), pour salt water over vegetables and cover. This way makes pickles more salty; But pickle melon served with frozen meat or fat meat is delicious, is a special dish in the Tet holiday.

2. Cabbage salt

How to do the same as above, but sauerkraut is often salted . Wash old leaves or crackers, slice and dry. Add salt water like sauerkraut. Cabbage pickled cabbage is often used in 3-5 days like kimchi, valuable as pickled cabbage pickle or kimchi.

3. Salted cucumbers

Choose a small bowel (melon) with small intestine, no seeds and a part of the flower still sticking under the fruit. Rinse, soak in boiling water for 3-5 minutes. Take out, soak in vinegar with 1% alum phase; or after soaking in boiling water, take out, soak in 5 - 7% salt water with sour alum phase until pickle, remove salt water and replace with clean water several times to reduce salt. Then soak again in 2% vinegar. It is edible for about 1 week. Cucumbers have the effect of warming, refreshing, diuretic and edema. Pickled pickled cucumbers also work with edema.

4. Salted coffee

Cauliflower with salted: 5kg, salt 250g, garlic 3 - 5 tubers. Ca cut off the knob (sepals and stalks), rinse; Garlic peeled hard, crushed. Pour the tomatoes, salt and garlic into a jar (saucepan, vermicelli), stir well, cover tightly, leave for 4-6 hours. Put the blister pack on top of it, pour clean water over the blister. Leave 3-5 days to eat.

Salted coffee : Use a bowl of coffee, cut the knob, rinse, dry the wilt, put it in the bowl; For every turn of salt, the amount of salt used is about 15-25%. Place the blister, pour clean water near the blisters and pour over the remaining salt, place on top of a heavy object. It can be used after 15 days -1 months. Salted coffee in this way is often salty, so it is necessary to soak it in the water for a long time before it becomes salty.

In folk and books there are conflicting indications: "One egg is equal to three cups of medicine". Someone explained that eating 1 cup of coffee lost 3 cups of medicine; Some people claim that: 1 fruit is worth 3 cups of medicine. Coffee has sweet taste, welding properties; have laxative, diuretic, diarrheal, except for fluid, active blood, indigestion; coffee is a stimulant to convert cholesterol in the liver. Coffee with solanine, a toxic alcaloid, there are many times the fruit is still young, so Thuong Thuong He advised not to eat a lot of raw coffee .

Picked coffee for salt is often old, so the amount of solanine decreases; moreover, when salts, the amount of lactic acid increases during fermentation combining alkali - solanine to salt reduces toxicity. Family rice tray usually has soup (boiled, fried), salty dishes (meat or fish), sauces and pickles; So the salted dish in the rice tray is just a dish that stimulates an increase in saliva, an increase in flavor during meals.

Solanine's metabolite itself is a factor that makes hormones with steroid nuclei, so perhaps " a berry fruit is equal to 3 cups of medicine" to people who are tired of eating and five organs. (Real raw manuscript). Tomato sauces are delicious dishes. Ketchup is the seasoning seasoning. In our country, similar to Ban Hung Yen, Nam Dan has a long tradition. Rich in nutrients, delicious and easy-to-digest taste, has been considered as the main food (especially for the elderly, monks), has the effect of detoxifying and making spice ingredients for cooking. should be combined with salted tomato to have a good effect, spleen and detoxification.