This aristocratic vegetable is called the king of vegetables by foreigners, yet you can eat 10 of them and still not feel full.

Today I want to tell you about a special plant, a plant that grows along the coast. At first glance you would think it is just an ornamental plant, and many people do not know that it is actually edible. In the eating habits of people abroad, this plant is especially popular, but at home few people know it. It is the artichoke.

Speaking of the artichoke, it looks like a flower, but it is actually an edible vegetable. Although the artichoke tastes with a sweet note like a pear, only the base of the artichoke leaves can be scraped with your teeth to get a little bit of flesh out; the other parts of the artichoke are too chewy and simply cannot be eaten. By a rough count, if you wanted to get full, you would need to eat at least ten or more artichokes. But even though there is so little flesh, foreign friends are still willing to spend ages just to eat that tiny bit of artichoke. This is probably the difference in food culture.

In fact, foreign friends also feel that the artichoke has very little flesh to eat, but they just love that sweet aftertaste of the artichoke, and thinking about it this way, they do not feel that eating artichokes is not worth it. Nowadays in our country, although people eat few artichokes, in order to meet market demand, some farmers have already started growing artichokes and then exporting these artichokes abroad, mainly to be made into canned goods. In Shandong, Zhejiang and other coastal provinces of our country, some farmers grow them.

Every year from June to July is the season when artichokes mature. Remove the outer skin that looks like petals, and then you can eat the heart inside raw; it tastes a little sweet, and it is also very fragrant when stir-fried with meat. Or take out the tender leaves inside the artichoke, cut them into slices, add olive oil and fry them in a flat-bottomed pan until both sides are golden brown, sprinkle on some fleur de sel, and finally, after taking them out of the pan, drizzle on a bit more olive oil, and it is done. It is both delicious and healthy.

In fact, this little artichoke also has great benefits: it has the effect of cleansing the liver and detoxifying. It is just too troublesome to prepare. It looks quite big, but what you can actually eat is only a tiny bit inside, and you must have lemon water prepared, otherwise once it is cut open, it turns black within a few minutes.

This is just such a vegetable that is very troublesome to eat, yet is called the "king of vegetables" by foreigners, an aristocratic vegetable. Have you ever eaten it?