March 3 ~ Boiled eggs with shepherd’s purse

March 3 ~ Boiled eggs with shepherd’s purse

Overview

On March 3, shepherd's purse is boiled with eggs, which is a common saying in the Jiangnan area. Legend has it that the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of the Queen Mother. Early that morning, the kind-hearted Queen Mother ordered Guanyin to send down holy water in order to save people in the world from suffering from diseases. Therefore, the most spiritual vegetables serve as messengers of love. Dicai is a green plant with small and delicate leaves that grow close to the ground. Its scientific name is shepherd's purse. It is very inconspicuous when it is a seedling, and it is difficult to find it without looking carefully. Perhaps to make it easier for people to dig, ground vegetables generally grow on banks and vegetable fields. Local vegetables come with the spring breeze and rain. When the spring breeze passes, you will see tender vegetables emerging from the ground; after the spring rain moistens, you will find a large area of green vegetables standing tall, with leaves holding small pearl-like raindrops, making you feel full of vitality and refreshing. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, Chinese people have the custom of eating local vegetables and boiling eggs. Shepherd's purse, a local vegetable, can be seen everywhere on the roadside or in the fields. It is not only rich in nutrients, but can also cure many diseases. There is not only a proverb among the people that shepherd's purse is an elixir on the third day of March in spring, but there is also a saying that eating shepherd's purse in spring is the best elixir. It can be seen that shepherd's purse is not only a delicacy, but also a panacea. In traditional Chinese medicine, shepherd's purse has a wide range of medicinal values and is known as the licorice of vegetables. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's purse is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It returns to the liver, spleen, and kidney meridian, and has the functions of harmonizing the spleen, diuresis, hemostasis, and improving eyesight.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Wash the fresh eggs and duck eggs and put them in the pot to cook~

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  2. Pour the hard-boiled eggs with cold water and crack them into pieces~

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  3. Wash the flowering shepherd's purse picked from the fields and set aside for use~

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  4. Place a layer of shepherd's purse on the bottom of the pot~

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  5. Put cracked eggs on top~

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  6. Finally, put a layer of shepherd's purse on top and add an appropriate amount of salt and water~

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  7. Cook over high heat for about half an hour and then it’s ready to eat~

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  8. Have you eaten on March 3rd?

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  9. Nutritious and delicious~😍

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