How to pick up gotu kola to get delicious food and smoothies to cool off in the hot summer? This is probably a question that many housewives really care about. To get nutritious dishes, delicious and cool smoothies, you definitely cannot skip the preliminary processing of ingredients. The more carefully the raw materials are processed, the more food and drink you will have to ensure food hygiene and safety. The following article shared by Dung Ha Dried Agricultural Products will give you the most detailed answer on how to pick up pennywort quickly and meticulously from A – Z simply at home.
1. What is gotu kola?
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2. How to pick up gotu kola fast and simple from A – Z at home?
2.1 How to choose fresh gotu kola
- Check the appearance of vegetables: Choose fresh gotu kola with bright green leaves, young leaves, succulent. Avoid choosing wilted, yellowed, stamped centella asiatica plants
- Check the freshness of vegetables: Check by holding gotu kola leaves and gently squeezing them. Fresh gotu kola will have good elasticity and will not be wrinkled
- Taste: Pick up gotu kola and bring it close to your nose and smell it. Fresh gotu kola will have a characteristic aroma, no unusual taste. Avoid buying gotu kola that has an unpleasant smell when you smell it
- Time to buy: Try to buy fresh gotu kola during the day to ensure freshness and nutrition
- Buy from reputable places: Gotu kola can be found in many places on the market. You can buy gotu kola at residential markets, commercial centers or large supermarkets such as: WinMart, Bach Hoa Xanh, Dung Ha Agricultural Products,… to be sure of the price and freshness.
2.2 Ingredients and tools to prepare to pick up gotu kola
- 1 bunch of gotu kola
- Fine salt (rice water)
- Vegetable basket
- Wash vegetables
2.3 Cut off the tops of young pennywort
- When you buy gotu kola, you use your hands to grab the edible young and old tops of gotu kola and put them in a basket
- See the tops of gotu kola rotten, wilted, stamped boots, pests, … immediately remove it
2.4 Wash centella asiatica
- Gotu kola after picking the tops of young vegetables and removing the tops of rotten gotu kola. The next thing you need to do is bring gotu kola to wash with clean water
- To keep gotu kola always fresh, remove dirt and chemicals during the growing process, soak gotu kola with diluted salt water for 5-7 minutes.
- After soaking got gotu kola, pick it up, wash it with clean water and let it dry, drain and then process it into your favorite dish.
Note: In the process of washing vegetables, you need to wash gotu kola very gently to avoid washing them too hard.
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3. Revealing some delicious dishes from gotu kola to cool down?
3.1 Gotu kola soup cooked with minced meat
- 100g fresh centella asiatica
- 150g minced pork shoulder
- Green onions, finely chopped
- 3 purple onions, minced
- Refined salt
- Fish sauce
- Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles, ground pepper
- Gotu kola buys, you use your hands to pick up the young tops of gotu kola to use
- Remove the rotten, wilted, shriveled centella asiatica leaves, etc
- Wash gotu kola under gentle running water to remove dirt
- Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put gotu kola in and soak for 5 minutes with salt water to remove chemicals
- Pick up gotu kola up, wash the gotu kola with clean water. Let the gotu kola dry and drain
- Put the ground pork shoulder in a bowl with: fish sauce + spices + seasoning seeds + main noodles + minced red onion + green onion
- Using chopsticks, mix the seasoning with the ground pork. Marinate for about 15 minutes
- Put 1 liter of pure water in a pot and bring to a boil
- Boiling water, add marinated minced pork and cook for 15 minutes
- Next, pour gotu kola into the pot, cook with minced pork for 20 minutes
- Season the soup to fit my mouth
- The soup is just right, turn off the stove and scoop the soup into a bowl and enjoy it when it’s hot
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3.2 Gotu kola soup cooked with dried shrimp
- 100g centella asiatica
- 75g dried shrimp
- Refined salt
- Fish sauce
- Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles, ground pepper
- Gotu kola buys, you use your hands to grab the tops of young centella asiatica to eat
- Remove the tops of rotten pennywort, yellow withered, stamped boots, … discarded
- Wash gotu kola under gentle running water to remove dirt
- Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put gotu kola in and soak for 5 minutes with dilute salt water to remove harmful chemicals
- Pick up gotu kola up, rinse with clean water. Let the gotu kola dry and drain
- Put 1 liter of pure water in a pot and bring to a boil
- Boil water, add gotu kola and cook for 20 minutes
- Put the dried shrimp in the soup pot and cook the dried shrimp with centella asiatica for 15 minutes
- Put in the soup pot including: spices + seasoning seeds + main noodles + fish sauce. Stir well with the soup until the seasoning dissolves
- Season the soup to fit my mouth
- The soup is just right, turn off the stove and scoop the soup into a bowl and enjoy it when it’s hot
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3.3 Gotu kola soup cooked with fresh straw mushrooms
- 100g fresh centella asiatica
- 100g fresh straw mushrooms
- Green onions, finely chopped
- Refined salt
- Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles, ground pepper
- Gotu kola buys, you use your hands to grab the tops of young centella asiatica to use
- Remove all the tops of rotten centella asiatica, stamping boots, wilting, … discard
- Wash gotu kola under gentle running water to remove dirt
- Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put gotu kola in and soak for 5 minutes with dilute salt water to remove harmful chemicals
- Pick up gotu kola up, wash the gotu kola with clean water. Let the gotu kola dry and drain
- Fresh straw mushrooms you wash under gentle running water to remove dirt
- Use your hands to gently squeeze the mushrooms to dry out
- Split the straw mushrooms in half
- Put 1 liter of pure water in a pot and bring to a boil
- Boiling water, put gotu kola in and cook for 20 minutes
- Next, put fresh mushrooms in the pot and cook with gotu kola for 10 minutes
- Put in the soup pot including: seasoning + seasoning + main noodles. Stir well until seasoning dissolves
- Season with pennywort soup to fit my mouth
- The soup is just mouth-watering, sprinkle scallions + ground pepper in it. Stir gently, turn off the stove and scoop the soup into a bowl and enjoy
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3.4 Stir-fried goat meat with gotu kola
- 150g fresh gotu kola
- 250g fresh goat meat
- 1 onion, minced
- Dried garlic, minced
- Fish sauce
- Cooking oil
- Seasoning: main noodles, ground pepper
- Gotu kola buys, you use your hands to grab the tops of young centella asiatica to eat
- Remove all damaged, wilted, shriveled, damaged leaves and pests
- Wash gotu kola under gentle running water to remove dirt
- Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put gotu kola in and soak for 5 minutes with dilute salt water to remove harmful chemicals
- Pick up gotu kola up, wash the gotu kola with clean water. Let the gotu kola dry and drain
- Put gotu kola together and proceed to cut them into pieces
- Goat meat bought, you cut the goat meat into thin slices
- Marinate goat meat with: fish sauce + ground pepper + main noodles + cooking oil. Wear plastic gloves, mix well and marinate the goat meat for 15 minutes
- Put cooking oil in a pan and heat it
- Hot oil, add minced garlic + minced shallot and fry until golden brown, fragrant
- Pour the goat meat into the frying pan with high heat for 5 minutes for the goat meat to hunt again
- Pour gotu kola into the pan with goat meat and stir-fry the gotu kola with goat meat for 15 minutes
- Put spices + seasoning seeds + main noodles in the pan of gotu kola. Stir well for the seasoning to dissolve
- Taste the food to suit your taste
- The dish is delicious, turn off the stove and scoop the stir-fried goat meat with centella on a plate and enjoy it as soon as it’s hot
3.5 Gotu kola juice with guava pineapple
- Gotu kola bought back, you use your hands to grab the tops of young gotu kola to use
- Remove the rotten, wilted centella asiatica leaves, stamp out the boots
- Wash gotu kola under clean running water to remove dirt
- Mix in a pot of dilute salt, put gotu kola in and soak for 5 minutes with dilute salt water to remove harmful chemicals
- Pick up gotu kola up, wash the gotu kola under clean running water. Let the gotu kola dry and drain
- Put the gotu kola together. Chop gotu kola into small pieces
- Buy pineapple, peel the pineapple skin and pineapple eyes
- Cut pineapple into 4 parts, peel off the hard veins on each piece of pineapple. Continue to chop the pineapple to make it easier to grind
- Buy guava, cut off the head and stem of the guava. Grate the entire guava peel. Cut guava into small pieces, filter out all guava seeds
- Put gotu kola + guava + pineapple + salt in a blender
- Press the button and proceed to puree all the ingredients together for 5 minutes
- Pour the juice mixture through a sieve, filter out the pulp, get the juice
- Pour the juice into a glass, add ice cubes, stir well and enjoy
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