Chive flower storage

Chive flowers have many uses. Not only do they look beautiful, but they are also very popular as a food ingredient. Chive flowers can be used to make dumplings or chive boxes. Chive flowers are also a good choice as a side dish. Chive flowers are delicate and can easily go bad if not properly stored, so they are best stored in the refrigerator or pickled so they can be stored for a longer time.

Homemade fresh chives

Winter comes and summer goes, autumn harvests and winter stores. Days go by, and life is not just about the quick dishes we prepare every day, but also about the side dishes we make in different seasons. Chive flowers are such an ingredient. It is the beginning of autumn, and the chive flowers are fresh and tender. If you make them yourself at this time, you can not only use them as seasoning, but you can also save them and store them in the refrigerator, and use them as seasoning for hot pot when the weather gets cold. It is definitely better than Liusheju, at least it does not have preservatives. The chive flowers I make myself are much lighter in color than those purchased from other places. Now I fully suspect that the one I bought was made of leeks, or there were very few leek flowers. The overall production process of chive flowers is very simple. As long as you have a blender at home, this thing becomes easy. In fact, a long time ago, when people didn’t have blenders, the method was also very simple. You could just chop it with a knife or crush it with a garlic mortar. I prefer mashing, as this processing method is more traditional, more primitive, and closer to the origin of human understanding of food. Therefore, the taste is relatively well preserved. Nowadays, for the sake of convenience, people use a blender. In 30 seconds, a pound of chives can become a paste. The power of technology is truly infinite. In addition to saving time, people also pursue the pleasure of human participation in food production. Handmade food tastes better because your labor is reflected in the food, so when you eat it, you will feel the love of people and the distance between you and the food is shortened.

Chive flower preservation:

1 If eaten within a week, you can store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

2 If you want to eat it slowly, divide the chives into small parts and store them in a fresh-keeping box and freeze them. This way you can eat it anytime, and the taste is almost the same as the fresh ones.

3 The advantage of freezing is that the chives do not need to be made very salty and they also avoid turning yellow.

Tips:

1 Chive flowers must be refrigerated, as they will easily turn yellow and deteriorate if left at room temperature.

2 When buying chive flowers, choose high-quality ones that are tender, half-opened, and have very tender peduncles. This one is easy to mash and tastes good.

3 If you want the chive flowers to be green or to reduce costs, you can add some chives and mash them together with the flowers.

4 If you like, you can blend it into a paste so that it is easier to eat when eating hot pot. If it is served with rice, it should not be broken into pieces.

5 When pickling pickled vegetables, use large-grain washed salt, as refined salt may sometimes taste bitter.

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