(Baonghean.vn) – The cool, slightly bitter taste, combined with the spicy taste of chili, the rich taste of roasted peanuts and herbs blend together to make the weasel salad irresistibly delicious.
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| Quao is a woody plant, up to 15 - 25m high, equivalent to a quao fruit about 50cm long. Each tree produces a maximum of about 20 fruits. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| To pick the fruit, people have to connect two bamboo trees together to get there. First, they have to choose quao fruits that are not too old or too young. Because if they are too old, the dish will be fibrous, if they are too young, it will not be delicious. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| After being picked, the quao is grilled over a fire until the shell is burnt. When the quao is soft and has a characteristic aroma, it means the quao is ripe. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| When the quail is cooked, scrape off the outer skin. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| Next, use a knife to cut the fruit horizontally. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| To make quao salad, the ingredients needed include: MSG, shrimp paste, roasted peanuts, lemon leaves, and coriander leaves, mixed together. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| With a cool, slightly bitter taste, combined with the spicy taste of chili, the rich taste of roasted peanuts and herbs blend together to create a dish with its own unique, irresistible flavor. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| In addition to the quao fruit, the quao flower is also used by people to boil or grill and dip with shrimp paste. For the people in the highlands, in addition to being used to make dishes, quao is also an effective medicine, very good for people with liver disease. According to the elders, in the past, to test whether one had liver disease or not, one only needed to take the quao tree bark, scrape off the outer impurities, put it in a copper basin and soak it in boiled water to cool, after 3 days take it out and drink 3 cups, if it tastes sweet, then the person has liver disease, but if it tastes bitter, then it does not. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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