You pursue medium " leek root " the leek that eats with us is not same cultivate substance. This, we want to make clear. The root of this kind of leek that you pursue medium is to use those who do vegetable to eat, be in especially southwest. So, its biggest utility is: Make vegetable. As to other such as " Zhuang Yang " the action of and so on, we still want to be treated cautiously. The likelihood has Zhuang Yang effect really, deceive people possibly namely, who does eat to know.
The leek root of the wide leaf leek of the sale in Yunnan supermarket.
The leek that takes leek root is one kind is called " wide leaf leek " plant. It grows in southwest and other places, local helps advance somebody's career it will regard characteristic as vegetable. But its leaf tastes as grass, so its leaf cannot eat. The root that takes it only commonly and beautiful Ting (leek is spent) .
Of leek root have a way a lot of, the move that boil eats, frying eat, the move that stew eats etc, flavour also is chic. Want it to become soft only, tasting also is very appetizing. But, yunnan place still has another to plant more appetizing have a way: Bloating to eat. Mix the spice such as leek root and ginger, carrot, chili, Chinese prickly ash, salt together, bloat the leek root soft that come out is cool, particularly delicious.
As to the sort of most leek that we eat usually, what we basically eat is its leaf and beautiful Ting. Its root too too petty, and acrimony. We do not eat commonly. But the view that the root that also has this kind of leek is used as medicine.