Can you scramble eggs without blanching Chinese toon? How to blanch Chinese toon

Chinese toon is also known as Chinese toon sprouts, fragrant pile heads, big red toon trees, and toon days. In Anhui, it is also called spring seedlings. Eating some Chinese toon properly can help enhance the body's immunity and beautify the skin. Chinese toon and egg grandma's dish is a very famous home-cooked dish that is very popular among most friends. Can Chinese toon be fried with eggs without blanching? Let's take a look and find out.

Contents of this article

1. Can you scramble eggs with Chinese toon without blanching it?

2. How to blanch Chinese toon

3. The taste of Chinese toon

Can I scramble eggs without blanching Chinese toon?

It is not recommended to fry eggs with Chinese toon without blanching. Chinese toon without blanching tastes bad and slightly bitter. The nitrite contained in it is very harmful to the human body. After consumption, it may cause damage to the human stomach and intestines, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea, loose stools and other uncomfortable symptoms.

Toona sinensis tastes bitter and is neutral in nature. It contains a certain amount of nitrite, which may increase the burden on the human gastrointestinal tract. Blanching toona sinensis can improve its food safety.

Unblanched toon can easily produce indigestible substances when reacting with stomach acid, which may cause indigestion in the eater.

In addition, the blanched toon not only tastes better but also better maintains the original green color of the toon.

How to blanch Chinese toon

Drain the washed Chinese toon, then add water to a pot and boil it, pour in the Chinese toon and blanch it for 2 minutes. Do not leave it for too long, otherwise it will easily destroy the vitamins. Chinese toon likes warmth and is suitable for cultivation in areas with an average temperature of 8-10℃. Its cold resistance increases with the age of the tree.

Toona sinensis is also known as Toona sinensis bud, Fragrant pile head, Big Red Toon Tree, Toona tian, etc. It is also called Chunmiao in Anhui Province. Its roots have two layers of bark, also known as Toona white bark, and are mostly produced in my country.

Toona sinensis is rich in nutrients such as vitamin C, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, etc. Eating some toona sinensis properly can help enhance the body's immunity and beautify the skin.

The taste of toon

Toona sinensis tastes slightly bitter and has a strong aromatic smell. Toona sinensis is a tree of the Meliaceae family and the genus Toona sinensis. Its leaves are long-stalked, even-pinnate compound leaves, and are ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong. Both sides of the leaves are hairless and spotless, and the back is often pink-green. The panicle inflorescence is the same length as the leaf or longer. Toona sinensis buds can be eaten as vegetables, and Toona sinensis is the preferred tree species for landscaping.

There are many varieties of Chinese toon, which can basically be divided into purple toon and green toon according to the color of the buds and cotyledons.

The purple toon species include black oil toon, red oil toon, Jiaozuo red toon, Ximu purple toon, etc. The green toon species include green oil toon, yellow umbrella, etc.

Purple toon generally has a wide crown, purple-brown spores, purple-red young shoots, glossy, strong fragrance, less fiber, and more oil. Green toon has an upright crown, a slightly lighter fragrance, and less oil.