Recipes tagged "Acacia flower"

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Steamed acacia flowers

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Acacia Pork Buns

This is the season for eating wild vegetables, how can we miss out on acacia flowers? Holding it in your hand, the fragrance is fragrant. Although it is cheap, it is very fresh. You can’t steam it every time. Instead, eat it in steamed buns with pork.

Staple food Home cooking
Sophora flower cake

Everyone always has some delicious food that they can't forget, hidden deep in their memory, and this locust flower cake is what my father has always talked about. In the seven years of marriage, I heard him talk about eating locust flower cake at home many times when he was a child, but he has never eaten it in these years. Firstly, acacia flowers are very seasonal, and you can only eat them in May when they are not in bloom. Secondly, near where we live now, there are very few acacia trees. Even if there are one or two in the park, you don’t dare to pick them because you don’t know if a municipal garden worker has sprayed them with pesticides. Unlike the rural areas where we lived when we were children, there were acacia trees everywhere in front of and behind our houses. Before the flowers even bloomed, many of them had already been picked by us naughty gluttons. My father went back to his hometown some time ago. Unexpectedly, my mother-in-law picked sophora flowers this year and froze them in the refrigerator. She brought them back when she came back. The man who rarely cooks actually started making his own food. The prepared Sophora japonica cake is charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It has a rich Sophora japonica flavor and a mouthful of floral aroma when you bite it. As a person who only loves steamed Sophora japonica flowers, I immediately fell in love with it! I made it myself once, it’s very convenient and easy to make!

Staple food Home cooking
Alpine acacia egg pancake

My alpine acacia flowers and free-range eggs are really good ingredients. They come from a cooperative bee farm, and the sauce made from them is salty, fragrant and nutritious. The acacia grows best in North China at an altitude of 400-1200m, but in the northwest it can grow at an altitude of 2100m. According to relevant reports, there are more than 4 billion black locust trees in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Shanxi alone. It is estimated that the area of black locust in my country is more than 10 million hm2, and it has evolved into an important native tree species in my country. This time the acacia comes from the high mountains of Changzhi, Shanxi. In a broad sense, acacia flowers refer to the flowers and buds of the leguminous plant Sophora japonica. However, the open flowers are generally called sophora flowers, also called sophora stamens, and the flower buds are called sophora rice. It is often planted beside houses and roadsides. It is widely cultivated in various parts of China, mostly in the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain. It usually blooms from April to May every year, and the flowering period is generally about 10-15 days. The acacia flowers have good ornamental value. When the flowering season comes, strings of white acacia flowers cover the branches, and the air is filled with a light and elegant fragrance, which is refreshing. There are many poems about Sophora japonica in ancient times, such as: There are many winds in autumn, Sophora japonica flowers are half-grown (Bai Juyi's "Autumn Day"), Sophora japonica flowers dance in the wind and fall into the ditch, Zhongnan mountain scenery enters the city in autumn (Zi Lan's "Early Autumn in Chang'an").

Staple food Home cooking
Sophora japonica cookies

Many areas in my country have the habit of eating Sophora japonica flowers. In fact, Sophora japonica flowers are not only edible, but also a good medicine. Sophora japonica is cool in nature and bitter in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and cooling blood, clearing liver and purging fire, and stopping bleeding. It contains rutin, quercetin, sophorodiol, vitamin A and other substances. Rutin can improve the function of capillaries, maintain the normal resistance of capillaries, and prevent bleeding, hypertension, and diabetes caused by excessive capillary fragility and high permeability. Taking it can prevent bleeding. Acacia honey tastes sweet but not greasy, has the floral fragrance of acacia flowers, is not easy to crystallize, and has a high fructose ratio. Fructose is easily absorbed and utilized by the body, and its ability to convert into fat is less than glucose. It is suitable for teenagers and middle-aged and elderly people to take, and it is high-quality honey. It is mild and cool in nature, so it is most suitable for people who suffer from internal heat. At the same time, acacia honey has a good beauty effect and can be taken with honey water or used to make honey masks.

Staple food Home cooking