How to choose olives and what are the nutritional values ​​of olives

Olive sprouts have many nutritional values. In fact, olive sprouts are a vegetable mainly found in the south. They have only become popular among people in the north in recent years, so many people are not very clear about the nutritional value of olive sprouts. Olive sprouts contain many vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Eating olive sprouts regularly can lower cholesterol and triglycerides. People who are troubled by these two substances can eat some olive sprouts.

What are the nutritional values ​​of olives?

Olives are warm in nature and taste astringent and sweet. They contain many precious nutrients, such as calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium, etc., which are essential for the human body. Olives are a vegetable with very high nutritional value and contain a lot of vitamins. The olive oil that many people like to eat now is also made from olives. The vitamin E contained in olive oil can lower cholesterol and triglycerides. In addition, olives are also very effective in relieving constipation, fighting viruses, and lowering blood pressure.

How to choose olives?

First of all, you have to look at the color. When choosing olives, it is best to choose those that are emerald green, which is a sign of freshness. Then you also have to be able to identify whether the olives have been washed with water. If the olives have been washed with water, it is okay to eat them on the same day, but they should not be left for too long, otherwise the taste may be bad.

How to preserve olives

Fresh vegetables are generally not suitable for long-term storage. If you want to keep olives for a longer time, you can pickle them. Eating them as pickles can aid digestion and stimulate appetite. Chinese medicine warns not to add raw water to the jar when pickling vegetables, so that they are not easy to mold. The shelf life can generally be several months.

Olive vegetable preparation method

Dish name:

Olive Vegetables

Ingredients:

Mustard, olives, cooking oil (oil food)

Ingredients:

Soy sauce, salt

practice:

Rinse the raw materials, simmer them in a large pot for about 10 hours, then add the ingredients to make olive dish.

Features:

Fragrant, mellow and delicious nutritional value: Rich in chlorophyll and essential calcium (calcium food) for the human body, iodine, olive vegetable, dark color, rich oily aroma, and tempting taste, it has become a daily home dish for Chaoshan people.

Traditional production process of Chenghai olive vegetable

Wash the olives, soak and rinse them in clean water to filter out the sour moisture; then select salted pickles, chop them with a knife, put the olives and mustard leaves into an iron (iron food) pot, add peanut oil and appropriate amount of salt, and simmer until it is almost cooked. Add chopped red pepper, garlic, a little sesame seeds, peanut kernels and other auxiliary ingredients, mix well, and cook for another five minutes.

Olive salad is a local delicacy unique to the Chaoshan region. It is made by frying the sweet flavor of olives and the plump leaves of mustard greens. Its exquisite production process can be traced back to the Song and Ming dynasties. After processing, it has the characteristics of being "clear, fresh, refreshing, tender and smooth". It can be said to be a wonder of the world-famous Chaoshan cuisine.

The preparation of olive paste is very particular and requires eight steps: first, select fresh green and plump olives, remove the bitterness, then stir-fry repeatedly with fragrant peanut oil and salt to extract the fragrant flavor and retain the precious olive oil component, add selected mustard leaves, and control the heat at different times, slowly stir, let the olive juice and sesame oil gradually seep into it, making it gradually black and shiny. After more than ten hours of slow fire frying and adding spices, the smooth and refreshing olive paste is made.

When you eat it, you will feel the fragrance on your tongue and intestines. When you chew it carefully, the fragrance will linger on your teeth and cheeks, which is a unique charm of "the fragrance of horse hooves returning from stepping on flowers". In addition, olive pickles are rich in precious nutrients of olive oil and multiple vitamins (vitamin food), which can promote the production of body fluids and spleen, and promote digestion. They are natural green and healthy (healthy food) foods among Chaoshan pickles.

Fried Beans with Olives

1. Dice sword beans and fry them in oil;

2. Chop the olives, mix with the minced meat, and stir-fry with oil;

3. Pour in the sword beans, season and stir well.

Essentials:

1. Deep-fry the sword beans until the skin is wrinkled. It consumes little oil and cooks quickly while keeping the color green.

2. Olives are salty and fresh, so pay attention to the amount of seasoning; it is best to choose olives produced in Shantou. Boil olives. Crush the olives, soak the astringent juice or cook them before soaking them in water for two days. After the astringent juice is drained, stir-fry them repeatedly with oil and salt in a pot, add pickled cabbage leaves (old pickled cabbage leaves are better), and simmer them over a slow fire for several hours to make black olives.

After cooling, put it in the jar. This dish needs a lot of oil, which is very helpful for digestion and appetizing. Just put some on the plate as a side dish. The water in the jar cannot be mixed with raw water to prevent it from getting moldy. If it is well preserved, you can use a few Olives. Olives are a well-known Chaoshan mixed salted side dish. Not only are Chaoshan people at home and abroad fond of them, but many outsiders also praise them after eating them. Not only that, black olives are also an important Chaoshan ingredient like preserved radish and pickles. Using them to make fried rice or steamed meat can produce an indescribable oily and delicious taste.

The nutritional value of olive paste is very high, and the preparation process is also very simple. You can make it at home. If you have time, you must make this unique Chaoshan specialty dish for yourself.