The "longevity" vegetable has 30 times more selenium than onions and is very beneficial for the elderly.

Winter has many fresh young vegetables such as cabbage, radish, kohlrabi, carrots... These vegetables are not only cheap, nutritious but also easy to preserve.

This vegetable has a crisp, fresh taste, thick leaves, succulent and mucilaginous, rich in calcium, selenium, vitamins, protein and other nutrients.

In addition to the above vegetables, do not ignore the green vegetable with many advantages commonly known as the soul of crab soup: Malabar spinach.

Malabar spinach has extremely high nutritional value, especially beneficial for the elderly.

This vegetable has a crisp, fresh taste, thick, succulent leaves and is mucilaginous, rich in calcium, selenium, vitamins, protein and other nutrients.

In particular, the selenium content in Malabar spinach is 30 times higher than that of onions, also known as the "longevity" vegetable.

Selenium is a trace mineral whose full name is Selenium. Although it only accounts for a small amount in the body, this is a very necessary mineral and has the ability to significantly improve health.

Malabar spinach has high selenium content which can improve immunity, nourish blood and stomach, prevent various diseases.

Selenium also helps strengthen the immune system to fight diseases very effectively.

If a person is deficient in Selenium, they are at risk of diseases such as diabetes, stroke, atherosclerosis, heart failure, cirrhosis... and even cancer.

Therefore, doctors recommend eating more foods containing selenium, including Malabar spinach. Elderly people should eat this vegetable to improve their health.

Vegetables with high selenium content can improve immunity, nourish blood and stomach, and prevent many diseases. In particular, Malabar spinach can be processed into a variety of dishes such as soup, boiled, stir-fried, mixed salad...

In Oriental medicine, Malabar spinach has a cold, sour taste, non-toxic, and goes into the five meridians of the heart, spleen, liver, large intestine, and duodenum. It helps with urination, heat dissipation, detoxification, beautifying the skin, and treating prickly heat and acne. Ancient books record that Malabar spinach has a sour, cold, active taste, non-toxic, and is used to dispel heat and benefit the large and small intestines.

As a king of vegetables with many uses, Vietnamese people rarely use Malabar spinach as medicine but instead use it to cook soup to cool down, easy to eat and easy to prepare.

In Indonesia, people use Malabar spinach to treat constipation in children and for women having difficult childbirth. People also use red Malabar spinach to dye jams red, as food coloring, or to make cheeks/lips rosy.

In India and Bangladesh, Malabar spinach is used to treat anemia because this vegetable contains a lot of iron, is anti-inflammatory, diuretic, and has intestinal properties.

Malabar spinach soup with clams

Malabar spinach cooked with clams is also a delicious dish.

Ingredients: Clams, Malabar spinach, ginger, salt

Perform

- Rinse the clams many times with clean water, then soak the vegetables in the water. Remember to stir occasionally to remove all the sand from the clams. Do this many times to ensure the clams are completely clean of sand.

- Pick off old leaves of Malabar spinach, then wash with water and let it drain. If the spinach is too big, you can use scissors to cut it in half.

- After cleaning the clams, put them in the pot and add a little boiled ginger to reduce the fishy smell. When all the clams open, turn off the stove. Then separate the shells to get the meat. Filter the clam broth and pour the filtered water into the pot.

- Put the pot of clam broth on the stove and bring to a boil again, then add the Malabar spinach, season to suit your family's taste.

- Continue adding the clam meat to the pot of soup, bring to a boil again then turn off the stove. Finally, scoop into a large bowl and enjoy with rice and other dishes in your family meal.

Malabar spinach stir-fried with garlic

Ingredient:

Malabar spinach, garlic, oyster sauce, salt, cooking oil, sugar

Making:

- Remove yellow, wilted, and wormy Malabar spinach, remove old roots, soak in diluted salt water for 10 minutes to disinfect and remove all impurities in the spinach. Then take out, wash again and drain.

Stir-fried Malabar spinach with garlic is a delicious dish on cold winter days.

- Take an appropriate amount of garlic, slice thinly, reserve half for frying, reserve the other half to add to the vegetables when ready to serve.

- Pour an appropriate amount of cooking oil into the pot, when the oil is hot, add garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add vegetables and stir-fry over high heat.

- Stir-fry vegetables until soft and dark green, add a little sugar and season to taste.

- Add garlic and stir over high heat for 10 seconds then remove from heat and enjoy.

Stir-fried Malabar spinach with garlic is very simple, has a dark green color, is shiny, not watery, has a delicious flavor, is soft, and is very nutritious.

Note, after putting the vegetables in the pot, stir-fry quickly over high heat, so the vegetables not only do not lose water but also stay especially green and delicious.

Malabar spinach salad

- Pick and wash the Malabar spinach. Put a pot of cold water on the stove, add a few drops of oil, bring to a boil over high heat, add the spinach and boil for 10 seconds, until the spinach is soft and green, then quickly take it out and squeeze out all the water.

- Prepare garlic and chili, use hot cooking oil to pour in minced garlic and chili until fragrant, add 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, a little vinegar, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, stir well to taste then pour over the blanched vegetables.

- Mix the vegetables and spices well so that each leaf is covered with the sauce, then pour onto a plate and enjoy.

Malabar spinach salad is ready, sour and spicy, refreshing, delicious, especially if you have eaten a lot of meat and fish, this vegetable dish will be extremely refreshing.

Colorful and delicious Malabar spinach salad.

If you have elderly people and children in your home, you should regularly prepare and add dishes from this vegetable to your family meals, it is very good for everyone.

(Recipe and photo from Sohu)

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