Fried cassava leaves rustic

Coming to Dong Giang (Quang Nam), in addition to mountain scenery and the traditions of the village where there is a character that make this land that so few people know about, it's gastronomy . One very strange dish, that dish fried cassava leaves. Back then, people just eat cassava, but no one ever eat cassava leaves. But for other people, the Co Tu, fried cassava leaves are special to them. And particularly, as this dish is pure processing without cross stitch washed. That's why this dish is usually cooked after rainy days. When the rain comes, all the dust on the leaves will be washed, Co Tu merely picked to take home. And the leaves are fried, is the young leaves on top to ensure good and cleanliness. Because the young leaves will be ground away, little more dirt, and young leaves when fried up will not be long.
Later stages will be selected leaf crumpled stages. Cassava leaf is added to the hot, or tired, balled until limp into small fibers. After crushing, cassava will be fried up. The cooking is very simple, just for a little oil to the pan, and for a brief island spices are done. This dish is used when still hot; as soon as the calf from on the stove down, cassava remain in the pan has to eat right. Everyone crowded around the fire, people pick with chopsticks, while others are caught by hand, very rustic and rustic.

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Between the freezing air, sit by the fire and enjoy the communist Bui Bui, Date Date is very interesting. A handful of leaves of cassava but contains all of a seasonal sweet. A dish but contains both emotional outpouring that fellow Kotu for those pilgrims like me. Speaking of taste, this is good food, but above all fried cassava culture dish, dishes from the hunger that people Kotu unforgettable. "We cook not only to eat, but also to recall the days of hardship before. The time of war, devastating airstrikes constantly, could not grow cassava tubers were bulldozed bomb at all. While That is not enough to eat rice, people and sets his team hungry, so the Party leadership advocates cassava leaves as food against hunger. Back then, cassava is only roughly 2, 3 inches and then broke leaf . Thanks to this policy that can hold people together side by side in the battle the US, Ms. A Lang Phuoc, wife of Y Kong village, commune in Ba, Tong village Sedge said.

Now, life has improved, full of food, people are no longer hungry Kotu as before. However, the feast of the family, who often cook Kotu this dish, in remembrance of the heroic days of hardship but his father.