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Preparation
5 minutes
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Cooking
10 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Chives are commonly used as an ingredient to help treat some common illnesses, especially coughs. This November 20th, let’s cook together with TasteVN to create a simple and useful folk remedy with chives as the main ingredient to make a meaningful gift for your respected teachers!
Ingredients for Steamed Chives with Rock Sugar Serves 1 person
Chives 200 gr Rock sugar 200 gr
How to choose fresh and delicious ingredients
How to choose fresh chives
- Fresh chives are usually tender, bright in color, and crispy, so when you break them with your hands, they will easily snap.
- You should avoid buying chives that have turned yellow, are bruised, and are dark green. Because those are older chives, which are very tough and have lower nutritional content than young chives.
How to choose and where to buy quality rock sugar
- There are generally 2 types of rock sugar sold in the market, including white rock sugar and yellow rock sugar.
- Among them, yellow rock sugar is the first form after being extracted from sugarcane. White rock sugar is the refined form of yellow rock sugar, with lower nutritional content.
- If you want your dish to have a natural flavor, you can choose to buy yellow rock sugar. If you want your dish to have a more beautiful color, you can choose white rock sugar for preparation.
- When buying rock sugar, be careful not to buy rock sugar that has too many impurities.
- For white rock sugar, if you see that the sugar has a slight yellow tint, you should reconsider, as the sugar may no longer taste good.
- You can find rock sugar at sugar refining factories or reputable grocery stores near where you live. Additionally, you can also order through reputable e-commerce websites like bachhoaxanh.com to save time and transportation costs while still obtaining quality rock sugar with clear origin and source.
How to prepare Steamed Chives with Rock Sugar
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Prepare the ingredients
After buying chives, you remove the wilted stalks, then wash them with clean water and let them drain.
Rock sugar, after purchasing, you crush it finely and put it into a bowl (type of bowl for dipping sauces).
Then, you use scissors to cut the chives into equal lengths of about 1 finger length and add them to the bowl of rock sugar.
You sprinkle 1 teaspoon of clean water over the bowl and mix well.
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Steamed chives with rock sugar
You place the chive bowl into a pot of water with a water level of 1/3 – 1/2 of the bowl.
Then, you put the pot on the stove and proceed to steam it.
When the water in the pot has boiled, continue to steam the chives on low heat for another 2 – 3 minutes until the rock sugar is completely dissolved before turning off the heat.
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Final product
The steamed chives with rock sugar are soft, sweet, not too strong, and no longer have the pungent smell of chives, making it very easy to drink!
Remember this simple yet extremely useful remedy to quickly address cough symptoms when necessary!
How to use chives steamed with rock sugar
Chives steamed with rock sugar are often used as a remedy for coughs in infants and adults, proving to be very effective. After cooking, you strain the syrup and use it 2 – 3 times a day.
- For small children: Use 2 – 3 times/day, each time 2 – 3 teaspoons. Do not let the child eat the residue to make it easier for them to drink.
- For adults: Use 2 – 3 times/day, each time 1 tablespoon. It is recommended to eat the chive residue for more effective cough relief.
This dish is very easy to make and quick, so you should only prepare a sufficient amount for daily use.
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