How to cut green onions into shreds

Scallion is an important seasoning in Chinese cooking, and of course it is also a vegetable. Scallions are loved by many people for seasoning, as they can remove fishy smells and enhance flavors. Scallions play different roles in different dishes, and people handle them in different ways, such as shredding, cutting into segments, and tying into knots. Many people must have this trouble that they can’t cut the onion shreds properly. Here, the editor will first take you to understand the onion culture, and then teach you how to cut onion shreds.

Welsh onion is a biennial herb of the genus Allium in the family Amaryllis. There are more than 100 kinds of Allium vegetables in China, which are mainly distributed in the northwest, northeast and north China. Allium vegetables occupy an extremely important position in China's vegetable production, with their cultivated area accounting for 10% of the total vegetable sown area and their output accounting for 7% of the total output. China has a long history of growing green onions. As early as in the Book of Songs, there were records about growing green onions - there was "Cong Heng".

Roots: The roots are white and string-like, with few and short lateral roots. The number, length and thickness of roots continue to increase as the total number of leaves on the plant increases. During the peak growth period of green onions, the number of roots can reach more than 100.

Stem: The stem is extremely shortened and spherical or oblate, solitary or clustered, 1~2cm thick, with a white, membranous, and unbroken outer skin. The upper part has multiple layers of tubular leaf sheaths, and the lower part has dense fibrous roots. When the growth point at the end of the seedling differentiates into a flower bud, the flower stem will gradually develop. The flower stems of green onions are thick, hollow and unbranched, and are 30 to 50 cm long.

Leaf: The leaf consists of a leaf body and a leaf sheath. The leaf body is oblong-conical, hollow, green or dark green. The individual leaf sheaths are cylindrical. The multiple layers of nested leaf sheaths and the 4-6 young leaves that have not yet emerged from the sheaths wrapped inside them form a stick-shaped pseudostem.

When cutting green onion shreds, only keep the white part of the scallion. Be careful to cut off the end as well. For those who are not very good at cutting, first break the white part of the scallion in half, but be careful not to break it in half, then remove the heart of the white part of the scallion. Also remove the petals that look more tender and crisp, and the remaining are three to four older white parts of the scallion. Then fold it inside and flatten it. This is to make it shorter and easier to cut. Press the middle with your middle finger and the two ends with your other two fingers. Once it is fixed, cut it according to the fineness you want! For small green onion shreds, choose slightly larger green onion leaves, flatten them, and fold them in half about an inch from the beginning until you feel it is thinner.

Then press three fingers tightly and cut! However, if you are not good at cutting, you can only cut it piece by piece!