Star anise, Zanthoxylum bungeanum and spicy fruits, which are often eaten, used to look like this on trees.

Introduction

Spices are essential flavor enhancements for our cooking, but do you know how they grow? Come and see it with me, it must surprise you!

Star anise

Star anise is a famous spice with a sweet taste. Star anise fruit can be directly used in daily seasoning, such as stewing, boiling, pickling, brine, bubble, etc., can also be directly processed into five-spice seasoning powder.

White buckle

As seasoning, it can remove the peculiar smell and increase the flavor. It is used for preparing all kinds of stewed soup and for stewed pork and roast chicken. It is also one of the raw materials of curry powder. It has the function of regulating qi, eliminating food and stopping vomiting.

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Grass and fruit

Grass fruit has a special strong spicy flavor, which can remove fishy smell and increase appetite. It is a good food seasoning and is known as one of the "five spices" in food seasoning. Grass fruit is used to cook dishes, but to remove fishy food and improve the taste of dishes. When cooking fish and meat, the taste of grass fruit is better. When stewing beef and mutton, put some grass and fruit, even if the mutton is delicious, but also can ward off the smell of mutton. Prepare refined brine and cook meat and dishes to increase flavor, such as stewed beef with grass and fruit; as well as Yunnan specialty chicken, grass and fruit are also used to increase flavor.

Sichuan Pepper

Prickly ash is an indispensable spice in hot pot, prickly ash pericarp is the raw material of essence and spice, seed is excellent woody oil, cruller can be used as fertilizer or feed, leaves can be used as seasoning, edible or make pepper tea; at the same time, Zanthoxylum bungeanum is also an important soil and water conservation tree species in arid and semi-arid mountain areas.

White pepper

Pepper has a fragrant smell and is one of people's favorite condiments. Most of the pepper grows in high temperature and long-term humid areas, and its taste is hot and pungent, so it has a strong effect on relieving pain and relieving cold. The more southerly the pepper grows, the warmer the sex is, because it fully absorbs the heat of the south.

Incense leaf

Incense leaves are the leaves of laurel, often used in sauce dishes or soup seasoning, in addition, boiled vegetables are also often used. Dried leaves can also be used as a flavor correction for canned food. It is one of the aromatic seasonings commonly used in western food. Suitable for cooking meat, or the preparation of meat sauce to add a little, but because of its strong taste, so can not add too much, otherwise it will cover the original taste of the food.