Leek Flower Sauce

Name: Leek Flower Sauce
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Some Chive flower; Some ginger; Some Refined salt

by Dance of wolf

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

2

Leek flowers, also known as leek flowers, are white flower clusters that grow on the leek moss in autumn. They are mostly picked when they are about to bloom, grinded and pickled to make a sauce for consumption. Farmers often call them "leek flowers".

Leek flower sauce is a kind of sauce made by the people in the north. It is usually sealed in autumn and kept for winter consumption. When eating, use clean chopsticks to pry and place it in a small dish, and add some sesame oil. The fragrance is pungent and appealing to the appetite.

There are many ways to eat leek flower sauce: it is used as a dipping material when eating hot pot, it is used for noodles when eating noodles, and when eating mutton, the cooked mutton is dipped in leek flower sauce to eat... It is a kind of mellow The delicious road.

Now supermarkets have finished bags of leek flower sauce for sale, but what I love is the leek flower sauce made by my own garlic mortar: Wash the leeks and dry them with water, put a little salt, ginger, and garlic mortar. Smash it into a muddy shape, and finally put it in a bottle or jar, wait until the leek flower sauce is fermented before eating. "

Ingredients

Leek Flower Sauce

1. Wash the leek flowers to remove the old stems, spread out in a ventilated place to dry the water.

2. Put the dried leek flowers into a larger container, sprinkle with refined salt and pickle for 30 minutes. The leek flowers are soft and easy to operate.

3. Put an appropriate amount of marinated chives in the garlic mortar and a little chopped ginger.

4. The next step is physical work: smash it hard until the leek flowers are soft and mushy.

5. Put the smashed leek flower paste into a clean container until all the leeks are smashed, then stir the leek flower paste evenly.

6. Put the leek flower sauce into a clean glass bottle, don’t overfill it (the leek flower sauce will ferment).

7. Put it in a bottle or jar and wait until the leek flower sauce is fermented before eating.

8. Lazy friends can use a cooking machine to make leek flower sauce. Put the appropriate amount of leek flowers and chopped ginger into the cup of the food processor, put a little salt, and pour in a little cold water (for stirring and breaking the leek flowers).

9. Start the machine. Because the leek flowers are loose, stop the machine during the mixing process and use clean chopsticks to stir the leek flowers in the cup.

10. The leek flower sauce processed by the food processor is thicker and easier to eat. The next step is also: Put the leek flower sauce in a clean container, don't overfill it.

Tips:
1. Choose the one that has just bloomed or is about to bloom. This kind of leek is tender and spicy.

2. The utensils for processing leek flower sauce should be clean and oil-free, otherwise the leek flower sauce will not be easy to store and the taste will be extremely poor.

3. The fermented leek flower sauce tastes not jerky. Do not overfill the bottle of leek flower sauce, leave a little room for fermentation.

4. Leek flower is a spicy food, friends with a bad stomach should not eat too much.