HOW TO WASH YOUR LEAFY VEGETABLE

Winter in Delhi offer you fresh and beautiful vegetable. I always mad with the leafy, green vegetable and love to fix a bow of salads for our dinner, no matter what kind of food we are eating.

One doctor who is the friend of our family said that Indian people has stone in their kidney or gall bladder because they eat the dust and sand along with their vegetable. I thought it might be right because I saw the way people clean vegetable in Delhi (can not say about India, I have not travel much inside India), they would either hold the vegetable and keep it under running water wash it very quickly which is according to me is not clean at all. First of all, sand and dust are still stuck and second, you expose yourself to great chances of swallowing some parasites eggs and they are going to grow inside you and harmful chemicals..ehhhh, feel bad ? Then read below :-)

First cut the roots (if any) and clean out all yellow or rotten leaves then soak them in a lot of water so that  vegetable should be floating above the bottom of the bucket or bowl or tub, soak at least 30 minutes. You can mix with a little bit of salt or vinegar, this help to remove any worm or parasite eggs (do not mix to much otherwise you will ruin your vegetable). After 30 minute, open every leaf, rub it gently along the stem and leaf under running water and fill the bucket or tub with fresh water, then wash again twice or thrice then chop it the way you want and cook or make salad (I wash 4 - 5 times in case the vegetable to be eaten raw).

If the leaf is small, soak in water the same like described above, then use your finger to stir the vegetable inside water then open your fingers and scoop the vegetable out from the water, repeat the process twice or thrice. you will see there is quite much amount of mush and sand in the bottom of your bucket or bowl. Just imagine, if you swallow these.....This is not to mention the bacteria or worm which is not visible to your eyes.

It is advisable not to chop the vegetable and then wash, all the vitamin will be washed way and too much water will soak into vegetable, make it less tasty.

Have a good and healthy meals !