If you dare to eat, you will be blessed - ants carry chicken legs
This dish uses sour ants, insects commonly eaten by Dai people, as a side dish. The sourness of formic acid relieves the greasiness of the meat. It not only satisfies the taste, removes rheumatism, but also makes people feel refreshed. The sour ants were bought by someone from the Dai family last year and marinated in earthen jars for a year. Because the taste is too sour, I only take them out during the rainy season to remove rheumatism, or mix them with some to relieve greasiness when eating greasy food. Sour ants are the most ecological high-protein health food. Local people steam them, add salt, pepper, chili pepper, garlic paste, and local wine and pickle them in earthen jars. They serve as a traditional national dish to entertain guests. It tastes like pickled vegetables and is very delicious with rice and wine. Sour ants, also known as golden ants, scientific name is yellow cunning ants. Mainly produced in Xishuangbanna, my country's animal treasure house, as a traditional health resource, yellow cunning ants have been widely eaten by the Dai people for more than 3,000 years. Medical clinical practice has proven that sour ants have strong functions of dispelling wind and activating blood circulation, strengthening the body and dispelling evil, anti-inflammatory and analgesic. Regular use by ordinary people can strengthen muscles and bones, nourish hair and skin, and resist aging. Yellow cunning ants contain more than 50% protein, including 20 kinds of amino acids such as threonine and lysine, including 8 amino acids that are necessary for the human body but cannot be synthesized by the body, and contain 28 kinds of trace elements such as calcium, iron, cadmium, magnesium, zinc, iodine, selenium, etc. The most special thing is that yellow cunning ants contain a large amount of formic acid, a variety of enzymes and coenzymes, Zi family compounds, formic aldehyde and a large amount of high-energy phosphide ATP. Ordinary people who insist on using it can strengthen muscles and bones, nourish hair and skin, resist aging, and have good preventive and therapeutic effects on rheumatic pain, numbness, rheumatoid arthritis; chronic gastritis, hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatomegaly, fatty liver; low immunity, hair loss, yellow hair and other diseases.
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