A preparing method of chopped and pickled yellow tribute hot pepper having a radish
flavor is disclosed. The method includes a step of mixing water and Chinese herbal
medicine raw materials including siebold buttercup
herb, wild
chrysanthemum flower,
melastoma dodecandrum Lour.,
glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch., and
penthorum chinense Pursh and decocting the mixture to obtain a
traditional Chinese medicine extract liquid; a step of mixing the extract liquid with
rice flour and granulating the mixture; a step of subjecting the mixture to natural
fermentation and
drying to obtain medicinal Jiuqu; a step of
steaming glutinous rice, then cooling the glutinous rice, fully mixing the glutinous rice with the medicinal Jiuqu, and sealing and fermenting the mixture; a step of performing liquor
distillation on the fermented material, and collecting a first
cut, a middle
cut and
distillation tails separately; a step of mixing and blending the first
cut and the middle cut into a liquor material the
alcohol content (by volume) of which is 26-30%; a step of washing fresh yellow tribute hot pepper with the
distillation tails, draining off, chopping the yellow tribute hot pepper into pieces, and fully mixing and
pickling the yellow tribute hot pepper with table salt; a step of adding the liquor material in a plurality of times into the pickled yellow tribute hot pepper, and sealing and fermenting the mixture to obtain chopped and pickled yellow tribute hot pepper; a step of
cutting radish into strips,
dewatering the strips, washing the strips with the distillation tails, and draining off to obtain radish strips; and a step of adding the radish strips into the prepared chopped and pickled yellow tribute hot pepper, and sealing and storing the product in a dark place. The prepared chopped and pickled yellow tribute hot pepper has good taste, and
browning and taste deterioration are prevented.