Millet that grows on trees, edible raw or cooked, stir-fried with meat it is absolutely superb, few people in the north have ever eaten it

In the rural countryside, many flowers, fruit trees and trees grow naturally in the wild. Back then, we a few little friends always loved running along the rural mountain paths, and we would also climb up the trees to play. The memories childhood left me are very deep. Although our living conditions in the countryside when we were young were not very good, we were very happy. When hungry, we could go into the mountains and pick some wild fruits and wild foods to eat, and we could also go with our little friends to the streams to catch crabs, catch shrimp and so on.

I still remember when I was little, quite a few wild foods became delicious dishes after passing through my mother's hands. My mother's skillful hands were always finding ways to get ingredients for us and making unusual foods. Today I will tell you about a kind of "millet" that grows on trees, and that is palm bud rice (brown bud rice). Many people may have seen palm bud rice, but do not know that palm bud rice can be eaten.

Palm bud rice comes from the palm tree (Trachycarpus fortunei, windmill palm). In the rural areas of the past, almost every farming household had a palm tree growing or planted at the edge of its field. The palm tree is lush and green all year round, and palm bud rice is actually the seed of the palm tree.

When I was little, whenever the season when palm bud rice could be eaten came around, my mother would go pick some palm bud rice and bring it home. After washing it clean, she would stir-fry it with the preserved cured meat they had kept, and back then it tasted absolutely delicious. The flavor of palm bud rice is slightly sweet, and together with the aroma of the cured meat, it really was superb.

Actually, palm bud rice comes in bitter and sweet kinds. Probably the palm bud rice we ate as children was all the sweet kind that my mother picked for us after selecting it. Sweet palm bud rice looks plump and full, while bitter palm bud rice looks thinner and smaller, growing long and slender, as if it had not developed properly.

Only after growing up did I learn that palm bud rice not only has edible value, but also has a certain medicinal value. The nutritional value of palm bud rice is very rich, and after eating it, it has the effects of reducing inflammation and clearing internal heat. If someone in the family has relatively high blood pressure, they can keep eating palm bud rice, and it also has the effect of lowering blood pressure.

Besides being stir-fried, palm bud rice can also be eaten after being boiled. Eating some boiled palm bud rice in summer also has a cooling effect.

When I was little I did not know that this tiny palm bud rice actually had such great effects. Some people also just pick a handful of palm bud rice and put it straight into their mouths to eat raw, and that is fine too.

This palm bud rice really can be eaten any way at all, and it has so many effects. But now rural construction is getting better and better, yet palm bud rice is becoming rarer and rarer to see, and many people nowadays do not know that palm bud rice can be eaten, so some of the palm bud rice growing on the palm trees is simply wasted. Another thing is that this palm tree only exists in the south, so few friends in the north have ever eaten it.

Southern friends, did you eat this kind of wild food, palm bud rice, when you were little? If someone stir-fried a plate of palm bud rice for you, would you recognize it?