Cu Neo – Western specialty of the river

Cu Neo, also known as Keo Neo, is a species of weed that grows strongly, easily adaptable in the West of the river. I do not know when industrious became a vegetable to eat, just know that it tastes delicious, sticky, and crispy.
It is necessary to differentiate industriousness from tai chi, because some books and newspapers often confuse these two types of vegetables. The leaves have a sharp heart shape, the soft body is greenish-purple. When young, the leaves have a hook at the head (should be called a tick). Leaf statue ears like elephant ears, body 3 grooves, light green, more sturdy. According to traditional medicine, indigo has a sweet taste, cool properties, low heat effect, diuretic, laxative, inflammatory target. The experience of people often uses rubbish to treat urinary tract infections, men cure genetics, dreams, and women treat cold sores.

In the water season, or when the flood overflows, even though the herbaceous plants have been drifted away, the industrious still cling, rising from the mud. In the past, gardening people pulled this tree to eat through hunger. Then so, the days passed gradually, industrious became the specialty vegetable dish of the people of the South, with high economic value. Currently, these vegetables bring to urban areas cost a few tens of thousands of dong to hundreds of thousands dong a kilogram and sometimes still “out of stock”.

Vegetable spinach.

Processing the industrious vegetables in the Mekong Delta style is very simple. Raw edible spinach is considered to be the best, retaining its nutrients when dotted with braised fish and braised fish juice. The crunchy, supple stalks combine with the richness of the dipping sauce to create a rustic but delicious dish! Or when there is no food at home, pick up a bunch of spinach, wash them, cut them into pieces, boil them with boiling water, pick them up with soybean sauce, soya sauce, and soy sauce all run out of the bottom of the pot of white rice. A little more picky can be salty. Salted and sour salted islet (for a few days), often served with main dishes such as braised meat, fried fish … Stir-fried island with shrimp, meat, heart is the favorite drink of gentlemen. .

Cu Neo also appears in hot pot dishes of the Southern people. Especially hot pot sauce, fish sauce warehouse, if there is a lack of industrious (or tai Tuong vegetables), even a multitude of other raw vegetables will feel lacking something. Not only hot pot sauce but also in the sour soup pot of Western people, industrious to help increase the taste, strange taste. Because in that fragile amaranth, there is a mild acrid taste, a light sweet taste and a salty taste of alluvial flavor.