Dishes with bamboo shoots — 8 delicious homemade recipes

People eat the tender bamboo shoots , cut from the sprouts of this plant. Fresh, crisp bamboo shoots are cut off as soon as they emerge from the ground. And bamboo has a record growth rate — in just a day it grows a full 90 centimeters!

Tender flesh hides within the many layers of bamboo. It is prepared the same way as the bamboo shoots themselves. Of course, we don't often cook this exotic dish at home, but in China bamboo shoots — dried, canned and, of course, fresh — are used very often.

To prepare this exotic plant properly, you need to peel the leaves off the bamboo sprouts. Inside there will be a tender, beige shoot that needs to be cut in half. Thin partitions run along the entire length of the bamboo shoot, giving the sprout an even more exotic look. Cook bamboo sprouts in a large pot, adding rice flour and a few small pods of hot red pepper to the broth .

In Japan boiled bamboo is used to make salads and added to soups . But most often it is eaten sliced into pieces and dipped in soy sauce. Bamboo shoots are also fried with meat and mushrooms and pickled. In the Land of the Rising Sun there is one kind of bamboo eaten raw. It is distinguished by thin, tender shoots no more than 1 cm in diameter. It's worth noting that a raw bamboo sprout will appeal to you only if you enjoy eating ordinary grass.

In China bamboo shoots are stuffed with snails. Bamboo twigs are used to decorate dishes. And in some countries bamboo is made into jam .