How to cut garlic sprouts

Garlic sprouts are a kind of vegetable that grows after garlic is planted in the soil, so garlic sprouts also have the unique pungent taste of garlic. In particular, twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts is a specialty dish in Sichuan. When you come to Sichuan, you must try the twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts. The taste is unforgettable. Since garlic sprouts have a pungent taste, many people feel uncomfortable when cutting them. So what is the correct way to cut garlic sprouts?

How to cut garlic sprouts

1. Common cutting methods

Tear off the fibrous skin of the garlic sprouts and wash them carefully. The gaps between the main stem and leaves are easily mixed with sand and soil, so special attention should be paid to washing them clean.

Can be cut into various shapes.

Then cut into various shapes according to cooking needs.

Cut the garlic sprouts lengthwise.

If you need to chop, first cut the garlic sprouts lengthwise, but do not cut them into thin strips (as shown above), then cut them crosswise into chips.

After cutting longitudinally, cut crosswise into chips.

Cut the garlic sprouts in half.

If you need to cut into strips, first cut the garlic sprouts in half (but do not cut them completely), then flatten them and you can easily cut them into strips lengthwise.

Cut in half and lay flat.

Cut into strips lengthwise.

2. How to pick garlic sprouts

Pick the leaves with yellow and dry tips, then wash and cut them and stir-fry them. They are good with fried meat with garlic sprouts or fried eggs. Sichuan cuisine's twice-cooked pork and salt-fried meat are both fried with garlic sprouts. Garlic shoots can also be fried with meat, eggs, and shellfish. They are also delicious when braised with hairtail or meatballs.

3. Garlic sprouts cleaning steps:

(1) First, rinse the soil under the roots with water, and then cut off the roots neatly.

(2) Remove the short outermost leaves (which are usually withered).

(3) Start from the roots and clean from top to bottom. Wash the root neck first, then the leaves.

(4) After rinsing the leaves repeatedly, turn them upside down and rinse the leaf core. Wash it several times.

4. Nutritional value of garlic sprouts

1. Garlic sprouts contain a lot of vitamin C and rich protein. Regular consumption can supplement the body's daily nutrients. They also contain a lot of carotene, thiamine and riboflavin, which are very beneficial to the body.

2. In some respects, the nutritional value of garlic sprouts is higher than that of garlic. Its content of dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin A, carotene and other nutrients is higher than that of garlic. At the same time, garlic sprouts also contain allicin, so it has similar health functions as garlic.

3. Garlic sprouts contain capsaicin, which has a bactericidal ability of up to 1/10 of penicillin. It has a good killing effect on pathogens and parasites, and can prevent influenza, prevent wound infection, treat infectious diseases and repel insects. Its spicy taste mainly comes from the capsaicin it contains, which has the effect of eliminating food stagnation.

4. Garlic sprouts contain a large amount of copper. We know that copper is an essential trace element for the human body, and the blood, central nervous system and immune system in the body cannot do without copper. In addition, the development of hair, skin and bone tissue also requires the participation of copper. It plays an important role in the development of the brain, liver and internal organs.

How to cut garlic sprouts? Of course, cut them into different shapes according to the taste of different dishes to have different tastes. It can be cut lengthwise, into strips, or into chips. The texture of garlic sprouts combined with meat slices can bring out all the delicious flavor. However, different ingredients can also produce delicious chemical reactions when fried together with garlic sprouts.