The most common way to eat water chestnut is to peel it after cooking. Water chestnut can also be cooked with salt water, can also be used for frying meat, and some people use water chestnut to cook porridge. If you choose raw food, you'd better buy water chestnut with crispy skin and tender meat, which tastes fresh, sweet and delicious. If you choose cooked food, you'd better buy old ling with white meat. Eating water chestnut raw needs to pay attention to its shell. Be sure to soak, wash and brush before eating raw.

The practice of water chestnut:

1, stewed chicken with horseshoe

Heat and melt lard in a pot, first add onion segments, ginger slices, dried Chili and star anise, then add chicken pieces, stir-fry water, then add soy sauce and cooking wine, stir-fry and color, add fresh soup, add water chestnut, add refined salt and white sugar, boil and simmer for about 20 minutes, then add monosodium glutamate.

2, scallion water chestnut

First, peel off the shell of water chestnut with a knife, remove the purple membrane skin, put water chestnut into a plate, add chopped green onion and salt, steam for about 10 minute, take it out, and drop sesame oil to serve.

3. Boiled water chestnut

Soak water chestnut in clean water for about 30 minutes, put the washed water chestnut into the pot, add onion, ginger slices, pepper, star anise and fragrant leaves according to your own taste, cover and boil, stew for about 15 minutes, and break the shell directly when eating.