What to eat today? Delicious dishes from autumn chives
What to eat today? Chives in season are both crunchy, sweet and fragrant. They are not only nutritious but also easy to prepare into irresistible dishes.
Chives are a familiar spice in Vietnamese kitchens. Not only famous for its characteristic spicy aroma, chives are also a "nutritional storehouse" that is good for health. Both chive leaves, chive flowers and chives contain many vitamins A, C, group B, along with minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus and fiber.
Oriental medicine records that chives have the effect of nourishing the liver, nourishing the blood, warming the body, enhancing immunity, supporting digestion and fighting bacteria. The sulfide component that creates the aroma of chives also helps to clear the liver, reduce cholesterol and protect the cardiovascular system. Eating chives regularly can help nourish the skin, brighten the eyes, moisten the lungs, limit colds and asthma, especially useful in the fall and winter.
The chive flowering season only lasts about 10 days, when the flower buds are plump, the young stems are crispy and the aroma is fresh. This is the ideal time to prepare delicious dishes that are both nutritious and go well with rice. Here are two suggested dishes:
1. Pickled cucumbers with chives
The combination of cool, crisp cucumbers and fragrant chives creates a wonderful dish to relieve boredom. After being cut into strips, cucumbers are mixed with salt, garlic, ginger and chives, a little wine is added to enhance the aroma, then lightly pickled in a glass jar. After 1-2 days, the dish has a crunchy, slightly salty taste, with a hint of chives, and is suitable to be eaten with white rice or porridge.
2. Fried eggs with chives
Eggs are beaten with a little cooking wine, fried until golden brown and then quickly stir-fried with young chives over high heat. The dish has the soft, fatty taste of eggs, combined with the strong aroma and fresh crispness of chives, making it extremely delicious with rice.
Not only delicious, chives are also a valuable medicine in cuisine. If you know how to take advantage of the short chive flowering season, you will enjoy delicious dishes and supplement nutrients to help your body stay healthy throughout the fall.
