Do you know about dented vegetables, wild vegetables that are popular with many people and become a specialty of the Southeast? If not, let's find out together.
Dirty vegetable is one of the wild growing vegetables in the Southeast, this is a popular vegetable for many people because of the taste it brings, let's learn more about the origin, characteristics, and price of dented vegetables to understand Learn more about this vegetable.
What is a rotten vegetable?
The dented vegetable plant has many names according to each region such as taro thorn, thorny taro, thorny thorn, thorny thorn, wild vu, thuch vu, hai vu, .... In addition, the dented vegetable plant also has an English name. is Unicorn plant.
The plant is mainly distributed in China, Northeast, Southeast India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, New Guinea, SriLanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Dimpled vegetables in Vietnam often grow in riverbanks, dense gardens, fish ponds, rice fields, etc., dented vegetables are considered a specialty of the Southeast region and the Mekong Delta.
The plant belongs to the Ray family, can be 1-2m high, rhizome. Has stem and roots like mondo, but more like tubers. Leaf blade is arrow-shaped or lanceolate, many deep grooves, many spines are located in the middle of the leaf stem, petiole is about 32-125cm long.
The flowers are long and covered, the base of the flower is open and the upper part is closed, the flowers are orange-red on the outside and dark red-yellow in the inside, the flowers mainly bloom in July and September.
Delicious dishes from dented vegetables
Pickled vegetables
The dented vegetables cut off the stalks, then remove the skin, remove the spines and wash and slice to taste, add salt and boiling water to dissolve and wait for it to cool. Continue to put the vegetables in the brine tank, let the vegetables submerged and close the lid tightly, after 3-4 days it can be used.
Put the dented vegetables on a plate, mix a little garlic, minced chili, a little sugar, or you can stir-fry with garlic and pepper and you have a delicious pickled vegetable dish.
