How to remove the skin of water chestnut Method I
You can use the kind of bag that is more friction and permeable to water, put it in the water and rub it vigorously, so that it is easier to wash, and then use a knife to scrape the skin.
Method 2
If you use a knife to peel the skin, you should cut off the skin on both sides first. When you buy, be sure to pick that bud shorter, the shorter the more tender and sweeter, and easy to peel, and then peel the center and bottom first, and finally peel this bud on the mouth, if you pick are the shortest buds, the top of the only flat a little bit, with the peeling knife at once peeled off.
Method three
The market is now a lot of horseshoe peeling machine, not only easy to operate and very fast. 1, wash the water chestnut into the peeling machine; 2, water chestnut automatically peeled from the other side.
How long does it take to cook water chestnuts
Water chestnuts can be eaten raw or cooked, if you want to cook and eat, about 10-20 minutes can be, with a pressure cooker about five minutes is enough. Steaming will take longer, at least half an hour or more. Here is a way to cook water chestnuts:
1, use a small brush to clean the skin of water chestnuts, put them into a cooking pot (avoid using an iron pot), and pour 4-5 times the amount of water on them.
2, put the cooking pot on the fire, large fire boil, turn small fire slowly cook water chestnuts in the pot.
3, until the water chestnuts are cooked through. When the last pot of water is almost dry, open the lid of the pot, hand Chao move the cooking pot, let the water chestnut slowly juice, so that the water chestnut is particularly sweet, especially delicious (note that this is to make the boiled water chestnut taste good a big secret).
4, after the water chestnuts cooled down, put into cool boiled water to wash off the outer skin of the sugar sticky things.
5, dry the outer skin after washing the cooked water chestnuts, eat when peeling can be.
6, cooked water chestnuts, placed in a ventilated place, after drying, only delicious, not sticky.
Tips for water chestnuts
1, water chestnuts should choose a large, dark purple skin, buds short thick, this water chestnut taste sweet and crisp.
2. Water chestnuts must be peeled and eaten because they grow in paddy fields and their skins are prone to gathering harmful and toxic biological excretions, parasites and chemicals. In addition to water chestnuts, the skin of potatoes, sweet potatoes and persimmons should not be eaten.
3, water chestnut is cold food, the spleen and stomach cold people avoid eating more.
4, after collecting juice, there are sugary substances adhering to the skin of water chestnut, must be washed with cool boiled water before it is suitable for hand grasping.
5, water chestnut can be used as both fruit and vegetable, small cold season is the sweetest period of water chestnut, spring water chestnut is considered late harvest, but good quality water chestnut is still sweet and crisp. The most common way to cook water chestnuts is to boil them in water. Boiled water chestnuts have always been the usual way for Jiangxi people to eat. The raw water chestnut is crisp and juicy, and the boiled water chestnut is sweet and warm, but the water chestnut is cold, so it is not suitable to eat more water chestnuts, no matter it is raw or cooked.