Strange with fried shrimp hyacinth

There is a flower with purple color, the body is floating with the water filled with …. Those are the verses of author Vu Quyen describing the hyacinth. Not only beautiful and meaningful, but the hyacinth has also become a unique dish of the people who love the garden.
In the rainy season, the hyacinth blooms a section of the river, making it not easy for boats and boats to travel. But in the difficult, the people from my countryside are skillful to take advantage of. People pick and look at the water hyacinth to cook sour soup, dot fish sauce, warehouse fish…; And I took advantage of picking hyacinth flowers and stir-fry them with the newly caught shrimps in the ditch.

Hyacinth is also known as Western water hyacinth or Japanese duckweed, there are many in the river. In the past, water hyacinth was just an aquatic species drifting along the water, an unusable herb but a very dear, close image to Mekong Delta farmers. The hyacinth has a delicate purple heart color with no fragrance, and on its yellow-spotted petals looks like peacocks showing their tails. The average football stirred the song Water hyacinth is picked and washed, cut off the book to drain. Put the oil in a pan, fry the garlic for fragrant, pour the marinated shrimp into the pan. The aroma is soaked up, the hyacinth is added, and the lid is closed. Just a little, the hyacinth has fallen, seasoned it again to taste it and reminded it from the kitchen that there was a delicious, clean and rustic dish. Pick up a shrimp with hyacinth flower and dab it in a cup of soy sauce and bring it to your mouth to chew slowly, you will “keep listening to” the sweet, chewy taste of the shrimp; The taste is soft, sweet, and the typical aroma of hyacinth, once eaten, will forever remember the taste of the country. What is better than when enjoying a hot meal with the family with a plate of water hyacinth stir-fried with shrimp, both simple and delicious, while not worrying about vegetables being “dirty” by fertilizers, chemical drugs. Previously, the dishes from water hyacinth were only the dishes of the poor, now they have become attractive and classified as specialties, already present in many restaurants for visitors to enjoy. when I have the opportunity to come to the West.