Old-school is cool
[Food is medicine]
Bone broth and Turnip
Region: Asia-Pacific
Season: winter
Besides daily basis diets, all cultures and societies have traditional food remedies and recipes for health recovery.
One of the most common ones from Western to Eastern is chicken (the most common kind but basically any kind of meat sauce from the region) bone broth. It is a very essential health remedy for many agricultural societies and no matter for healing from a cold or recovering from any illnesses.
Tsai-tu (菜頭, Taiwanese, or Daikon in Japanese) is turnip or white radish and very popular winter vegetables with medicinal benefits for healing gently. There is an old saying in the Pacific Asian culture that goes, “Have Tsai-tu in winter and ginger in summer, no more doctor’s prescription.” In the meanwhile, spices are the advances of the remedy from one recipe to the others. Local and easy to grow or find are the way to go if available. Today’s recipe, I add makauy(馬告), mountains pepper from aboriginal Taiwanese (Litsea cubeba), star anise and dried chili pepper as my basic ingredients for making bone broth. Although cilantro or Taiwanese celery is divided choice to pair Tasi-tu bone broth in Taiwan. For cilantro, it is so clearly white-n-black, love it or hate it.
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