Bamboo shoots is the tender buds of the perennial evergreen plant bamboo in the subfamily Poaceae. It comes from China. Nobody in China will unfamiliar it. And Bamboo shoots are the essence of Jiangnan cuisine. There are many different cuisine list for bamboo shoots. However, if you don’t know how to remove the bitterness in bamboo shoots taste, you can not cook well. But in China, it is common knowledge to deal with the little problem. Let’s talk about the cuisine process.
Braised bamboo shoots
Pick up the fresh part of the bamboo shoots, and cut it to pieces. Before you cooking it, you should put them into the hot water, that we call it as blanching. It can remove the bitterness and impurity part. 5g yellow wine, 10g thin soybean, 3-5g trick soybean. Heat the pot firstly, and put the cold oil in. When the oil is getting hot, you can put sugar into the oil. You can see the sugar is melting, and being brown, and please put the bamboo shoots in. Fry it with salt. You can taste it as you like. When the bamboo shoots absorb all sauces, the braised bamboo shoots is successful.
Bamboo shoots salad
The salad is not like the vegetable salad. You should shred the bamboo shoots, and put them into the boiling water to blanch as you known. When the bamboo shoots is well cooked, you can cold it and mix the garlic crumbles or scallion powder with 5g think soybean and 5g sesame oil. It is done.
Bamboo shoots with bok choy
Cut the bamboo shoots into pieces and blanch it. The next steps are easy. When the bamboo shoots is well cooked, put the bok choy in. Of course, you should cut bok choy in pieces too. Fry both of them, and put 10g yellow wine in to remove the bitterness of bokchoy and bamboo shoots. Then, put around 3g salt in. It is a quick cuisine menu.
The remarkable cuisine in North and South
If in the north of China, there are not so much bamboo shoots, so the bamboo shoots will be put in potatoes and peppers or egg plants. We call it fried three vegetables.
If in the south of China,bamboo shoots is common food. In Shanghai, we will put the bamboo shoots into soup with fresh pork and salty pork. Sometimes, a little tofu will be nice. We call it exact delicious meal.
In Guangxi, bamboo shoots can not be saved easily because the hot weather, so people will make sour bamboo shoots. It is not just a meal, but also a side dishes. You may taste it in Guilin rice noodles.
The bamboo shoots cuisine in other countries
Bamboo shoots is native in China, but it doesn’t mean the other countries can not use it.
In Uganda, bamboo shoots are called maleya or kamaleya, and they are side dishes for a long time.
In Nepal, there is a popular dish called tama. It contains fermented bamboo shoots.
In India, bamboo shoots usually is cooked with pork. We call it soibum or bastinga.
In Thailand, bamboo shoots is called no mai. It can be used in stir-fries, soups such as tom kha kai, curries such as kaeng tai pla, as well as Thai salads.
Above all, bamboo shoots has many ways to cook. Its cuisine methods are different in different places and countries. However, Chinese people and pandas are the key professors for treating bamboo shoots.
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