One of the rustic and idyllic dishes associated with the daily meals of Dat To countryside is Phu Tho sour cassava and vegetables – a famous specialty that everyone who travels far away also remembers.
Anyone who has ever set foot in the countryside of Phu Tho will surely enjoy the simple and authentic dishes that come into people’s hearts such as sour fish, braised fish, pomelo rien hero, and sour meat Thanh Son. In which, there must be mentioning Phu Tho sour cassava vegetables – not only rural specialties but also the symbol and pride of the people here.
Vegetable and cassava appear in daily meals
When is Phu Tho sour cassava and vegetable available?
When referring to the dish from cassava, many people only think of boiled cassava roots, baked cassava roots, and cassava cakes … but few people know that cassava leaves are also processed into a delicious dish that often appears in daily meals. of the people of Phu Tho.
And when talking about sour cassava vegetables, when did the people of Phu Tho not remember from when? Perhaps, this folk dish comes from the years of poverty, lack of enough sugar; Therefore, the villagers of Dat To have figured out how sour salt from cassava tops to create a rich menu for daily meals. Since then, sour cassava vegetables in Phu Tho have become familiar to the people here and have become one of the famous delicacies loved by many diners when having the opportunity to return to this countryside.
Steps to produce famous and delicious cassava vegetables
Whenever summer comes, the people of Phu Tho village invite each other to make sour cassava and vegetables to eat. Just a bowl of cassava vegetables served with tomato is delicious. Because of the sour, sweet, and chewy taste of cassava vegetables, when the salt is full, it will help you eat very rice and want to enjoy this characteristic flavor forever.
Stage 1: Select cassava leaves
To make delicious and sour pickled cassava vegetables, standard with moderate acidity, salted cassava leaves turn beautiful golden color, not crushed, the most important step is the selection of leaves, picking the leaves carefully and meticulously.
According to the people in the village word of mouth that, cassava leaves bring sour salt will only be picked at the young tops of the cassava tree. At the very least, I have to pick down 2 – 3 leaves. But the young cassava buds, when picked, must be carefully selected right from the cassava trees growing on the low-shore bushes around the house. And people prioritize sticky cassava vegetables (cassava) rather than randomly, massively grown cassava tops on hills to harvest tubers.
In addition, the people are very careful in selecting the best quality young cassava buds that still cover the top of the tree with chalk layer. This is the most valuable and delicious cassava leaf product. Thus, when starting salt, the sour cassava vegetables will yield the softness and reach the standard quality.
Choose vegetables
Phase 2: Salt for sour cassava vegetables
After selecting quality young cassava tops, people will now switch to preliminary processing and salting. If we are not local people who have experience in making vegetables and sour cassava in Phu Tho , we think the way of making cassava salt is like pickle salt.
But in fact, to put it simply, it is also true to talk about the sophistication, the meticulousness is not really after. For those who know how to do, the salt and cassava vegetables becomes easy. For those who are not good at hand, the salt and cassava vegetables will be more difficult. Not to mention the deliciousness of cassava vegetables when you want to have delicious crunch, sour taste or not?
Because cassava vegetables contain a lot of plastic, so when preliminary processing, people have to scrub carefully to filter out all the cassava resin. And it is important to have a good crumpling technique so that the vegetables will not be crushed, and have a sticky taste.
Crumple vegetables
After that, they brought the vegetables to wash through many times of water and then started to put in salt jars or jars.
Cassava vegetables in a jar of sour salt
Salted cassava vegetable broth must be boiled water to cool. Add a certain amount of salt and mix with the batch of vegetables just enough to not spoil. Or when eaten, vegetables that are not scum or are not salty is the standard.
Usually when you put pickled cassava vegetables in the jar, people pour water and compress it and dry them in the sun for 2-3 days, the vegetables will have enough moisture. About 5-7 days, you will enjoy the famous and delicious Phu Tho pickled cassava and vegetables .
Dishes processed with sour cassava and vegetables Phu Tho
Cassava cooked fish vegetables
Usually pickled and pickled cassava vegetables are used by the people of Phu Tho to cook fish. During hot summer days, enjoying a bowl of fish soup cooked with sour cassava and vegetables is extremely wonderful. With the overwhelming taste, the concentration of cassava leaves and the light sour taste when salt is the aroma to drown the fishy smell.
To make the most delicious fish broth, you add a little bit of sour cassava juice and cooked with water with the right ratio. Certainly, you will be able to collect a bowl of fish soup cooked with vegetables and cassava .
Sour cassava vegetables cooked with fish
Sour cassava vegetables stewed bones
In addition to the fish soup cooked with cassava and vegetables, stewed bones with cassava vegetables is also the ultimate dish that Phu Tho people often cook. You can buy tubular bones, or hoofs cooked with sour cassava vegetables are all delicious. Just for a sufficient amount of salted cassava vegetables; Adding a little salt and sour water is becoming more delicious than ever.
To make a bowl of soup with delicious cassava and vegetable bones, the pork bones and hooves when you buy them, you should wash them, pour them in boiling water, then take them out to drain and cook them lightly, add water and simmer thoroughly. When simmered until cooked, you add the vegetables and cassava and continue to cook, you will make a bowl of stewed soup with delicious and delicious cassava vegetables.
Sour cassava vegetables stewed hoof
Although looking at Phu Tho cassava and sour cassava is not as beautiful and eye-catching as other dishes, if you can enjoy this rustic and everyday dish, everyone will have a “drunk” taste of sweet and sour taste. bring. So there is no reason why you refuse the opportunity to enjoy a dish characterized by the origin of Dat To?
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