What to eat today? Delicious dishes made from autumn chives
What to eat today? Chives are in season, crunchy, sweet, and fragrant. Not only are they nutritious, they are 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 "nutrient storehouse" that is good for health. Both chive leaves, chive flowers and chives contain many vitamins A, C, group B, and 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 chives flower 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 crisp cucumber and fragrant chives creates a wonderful dish to relieve boredom. The shredded cucumber is 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 crispy, slightly salty taste, with a hint of chives, and is suitable to be eaten with white rice or porridge.
2. Fried eggs with chives
The eggs are beaten with a little cooking wine, fried until golden brown and then stir-fried quickly with young chives over high heat. The dish has the fatty, soft taste of the eggs, combined with the strong aroma and fresh crispness of the chives, making it a great dish to eat 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.
