Hair vegetable

Nostoc flagelliforme is an expensive dish at banquets and has always been praised by people. Bai Juyi wrote: "You can't see people when you look up, and your hair hangs like a dragonfly." Li Li Weng said in his "Leisure Collection. Drinking Department": "The color of dishes is the strangest, and the hair dishes produced by the Western Qin Dynasty are what are contained in the books on herbal food." Ordos is the hometown of Nostoc flagelliforme. After a rain, the dry climate becomes moist, and the land is wet. Nostoc flagelliforme sucks water, slowly expands and becomes bigger, just like wisps of hair, spreading on the ground quickly, black as paint, thin as thread, soft as brocade, and the vast land immediately becomes blue-green and olive. When the weather is dry and the sun is dry, it is in a dormant state, and its filaments are not branched, and its filaments are weak and thin. Nostoc flagelliforme is known as "the treasure of desert", "the treasure of plateau" and "the treasure of Gobi" because of its high nutritional value. Every 100g of Nostoc flagelliforme contains 20.3g of protein, 56.4g of carbohydrate, 2560mg of calcium and 200mg of iron. It can be seen that its nutritional composition is higher than that of the same amount of meat and eggs. Nostoc flagelliforme is sweet and cool, and has certain medicinal value. Diuretic, antitussive, detoxicating, and nourishing effects, and has certain curative effects on treating hypertension, gynecological diseases, chronic tracheitis, and promoting wound healing. Nostoc flagelliforme is tender, soft and crisp, refreshing and moist, and has no peculiar smell. Add a small amount of Nostoc flagelliforme to chicken, duck and mutton fishy soup, or add Nostoc flagelliforme to squid and belly tip to make soup, which is delicious and palatable. Nostoc flagelliforme can be eaten in various ways. If Nostoc flagelliforme is washed and soaked, steamed in a cage, cut into pieces and mixed with shredded ginger, chopped green onion, soy sauce, vinegar and sugar, it is sweet and sour, fresh and crisp, and it is an excellent cold dish for wine.
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