Boil water chestnut in a pressure cooker

Water chestnut: 500g

Ginger: 3 slices

Zanthoxylum bungeanum: 1/2 teaspoons (3g)

Octagonal: 3.

Fragrant leaves: 3 pieces of salt: 2 teaspoons (10g)

Onion: 3 segments

Menu function:

Water chestnut was called "water chestnut" in ancient times, also known as horseshoe. Water chestnut is sweet and cool, non-toxic, and has the effects of disinfection, antipyretic, diuretic, breast enhancement, thirst quenching and hangover relieving. Water chestnut can be used as food and fruit, and it is also an auxiliary food for modern women to lose weight. Boiled water chestnut tastes sweet and is a common snack in autumn in Jiangnan area.

1. Soak the water chestnut in clean water for 30 minutes, and then wash off the mud on the surface and cracks of the water chestnut with a waste toothbrush.

2. Cut the onion and slice the ginger. Putting the washed water chestnut into a pressure cooker, then pouring clear water into the water chestnut, and adding onion, ginger, pepper, star anise and fragrant leaves;

3. Cover and cook 15 minutes.

4. Open the shell directly when eating.

Jiao Ling yiren porridge

Summer: "Twenty-four solar terms" says: "Go ahead, go ahead, and stop here." The hot summer is coming to an end. "Last night, I couldn't stop singing. . . People are quiet, and the moon is bright outside the curtain. " When autumn sprouts, cook a bowl of sweet porridge

Raw materials:

250g of fresh water chestnut, 50g of coix seed, 50g of glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Exercise:

1. Wash the fresh water chestnut, cut it from the middle, shell it, peel off the water chestnut meat for later use, and soak the coix seed in advance 1-2 hours;

2. Add water to all materials (except crystal sugar) and boil for about 50 minutes on low heat (if you use an electric pressure cooker, the time can be saved by half);

3. Finally, add some rock sugar to taste.

Supplement:

1. When cooking porridge, the ratio of water to rice is 12: 1, which is relatively moderate.

2. Every year, fresh water chestnut always appears for a short time, so you must take it home and have a good taste.