Enjoy the healthy daylily salad during the daylily season

In the hot summer, the daylily season is about to begin! The Hualien County Government has actively promoted leisure agriculture in conjunction with local industries, developing sightseeing tourism with the sea of ​​golden needle flowers, which has become the most popular flower-viewing tour this summer. Teacher Chen Yueqing, who is good at healthy cooking, personally demonstrated the light meal "Golden Needle Flower Healthy Salad", which is not only low in calories and easy to learn, but also a good ingredient for health and wellness. (Video/Photographer Huang Zhiwen)

Hualien has always been famous for its beautiful mountains and rivers. Chihke Mountain and Liushishi Mountain, covering an area of ​​443 hectares, are the hometown of daylilies. Every August and September, the mountains are covered with swaying daylilies, and the beautiful golden sea of ​​flowers is unforgettable. During this year's daylily season, in addition to being able to enjoy the beautiful sea of ​​daylily flowers, you can also taste the healthiest, most natural, and most environmentally friendly sulfur-free daylily specialty meals.

Teacher Chen Yueqing, who is good at health-preserving cooking, personally demonstrated her own "Healthy Daylily Salad". Fresh daylilies are added to snow lotus seeds, cashew nuts and other ingredients, and then cooked in a food processor. It is a refreshing and non-greasy weight-loss product. Because day lily is rich in vitamins A, B1, B2, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients, it is very beneficial for both adults and children, and is also a good ingredient for cooking.

【Healthy Daylily Salad】:

Ingredients: 300g snow lotus seeds, 100g fresh golden needle flowers, 50g cashew nuts, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 50cc cold boiled water.

practice:

1. Soak the snow lotus seeds in good water for about 3 to 4 hours, steam them in an electric rice cooker and set aside.

2. Blanch the day lilies and set aside. If using dried day lily, soak 20g of dried day lily in hot water for 3-5 minutes, drain and use after fully rehydrating.

3. Place the cooled snow lotus seeds, golden needle flowers, cashews, salt and cold boiled water into the container in order, turn on the machine, and use a stirring stick to assist in the process. Beat until it is dense (about 30 seconds), and turn off the machine when finished.

Tips: You can add diced red pudding or corn kernels to this healthy salad to enhance the flavor; you can also spread it directly on bread as a healthy spread.

What to look for when purchasing

Teacher Chen Yueqing also reminded that one should be careful when choosing daylilies, as some unscrupulous businesses will add sulfur dioxide to make the flowers more colorful. If consumed in excess, it may cause symptoms such as difficulty breathing, vomiting, and diarrhea. Therefore, when shopping, you can grasp the "3 more" shopping principles of looking more, smelling more, and touching more, so that you can buy with peace of mind and eat with peace of mind.

1. Look more: observe the color of the tip of the dried golden needle. Usually, the tail end of the sulfur-free golden needle should be light brown or light black in color because of the residual natural melanin in the stamens.

2. Smell: The sulfur-free golden needles should smell lightly of flowers, without any sour or medicinal odor.

3. Touch more: The sulfur-free gold needle should feel dry. Golden needles that feel sticky may have absorbed moisture or have too many additives, so be careful.