Sour bamboo shoots and boiled taro stalks

Overview

This kind of taro stalk only grows in moist places near water. The locals call it water taro. The cut taro stalks have no numbing smell and can be fried or eaten together with sour bamboo shoots. Boiling taro stalks with sour bamboo shoots is also a famous side dish in southwestern Yunnan. Of course, if you don’t have this kind of taro stalks around you, please don’t eat taro stalks at will. After all, the numbing taste of taro stalks is unpleasant!

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• preparing meals
• garlic
• lard
• msg
• millet spicy
• sour bamboo shoots
• taro stalk
• ginger
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Tear off the skin of the taro stems with your hands and cut them into small sections about 4 cm long.

   

2. 2 Wash the taro stalks in water

   

3. 3 The washed taro stalks are put into a pot of boiling water and cooked.

   

4. 4 At the same time, put two cloves of garlic, a small piece of ginger and 3 pepper millets into a garlic mortar and mash them.

   

5. 5 Prepare a small bowl of sour bamboo shoots.

   

6. 6 After the taro stalks are cooked until soft, add the pickled bamboo shoots.

   

7. 7 Add the pounded garlic, ginger, and chili and continue cooking for ten minutes until the taro stalks are cooked.

   

8. 8 Add appropriate amount of salt and a little MSG, stir well and turn off the heat before serving.