How to pickle dried wampee
Go to the street and buy something fresh.
Wash dry: be careful when cleaning, don't break the yellow skin, or you will get water when steaming!
After cleaning, put it in a basket to dry.
Cooking: Put dried wampee into a dish and steam in the nest for about 6 to 7 minutes. Do not steam for too long. Not all yellow skins are steamed until there is no water.
Fruit removal: cool the steamed yellow peel and squeeze the fruit out by hand. Don't be afraid to force the meat out, you can have it!
Put in the bottle and salt: first take out the prepared bottle and put a layer of yellow skin, then put an appropriate amount of salt, that is, a layer of yellow skin and a layer of salt, and fill it all the way back.
Just seal it for 20 days After 20 days, you can take out the pickled yellow skin and flush it!
How to dry wampee
Although yellow skin is delicious, it is not suitable for storage, and only exists in summer and autumn. And if it is made into dried yellow skin, it can be eaten anytime and anywhere. Methods and steps of making dried wampee:
1 Cut off the fresh yellow skin with scissors and leave a little stalk to avoid breaking the skin and affecting the taste of dried yellow skin.
Wrap the cut yellow skin with a thin layer of salt, not too much. After that, leave it overnight, and turn it over and turn the bottom up.
Wash the yellow skin that has been separated overnight with clear water, then boil a pot of hot water, put the yellow skin in and wash it again. Because washing with hot water can not only sterilize but also soften the yellow skin.
4 nuclear removal. Make a small incision with a knife and take out the nucleus.
5 sun yellow skin, because there is a lot of water when cleaning. If it is not dried in the sun, water will come out from soaking licorice, so the taste will become weak.
6 Prepare a pot of yellow sugar licorice water, first boil the licorice for about 15 minutes, and then remove the residue. Don't boil too much water, only half the yellow skin.
7 add yellow sugar. If you like something sweeter, you can add more sugar, which varies from person to person.
After the water is boiled, let it cool and then add the yellow peel.
9. Absorb dried wampee with licorice syrup.
Huangpi will taste like licorice, a little sour, not as sweet as the one bought in the supermarket. Because it is made of yellow sugar at home and saccharin in supermarkets, even if a little more sugar is added, it will not be as sweet as that bought in supermarkets.
Efficacy of dried wampee
Dried wampee has good effects of resolving phlegm, smoothing qi, relieving cough, promoting digestion and relieving abdominal distension, and has good effects of regulating body fluid and relieving cough.
Dried wampee also has a good cholagogic effect and can promote digestion. At the same time, dried yellow peel can also eliminate fullness in chest and abdomen, which has a good effect of promoting fluid production.
At the same time, dried wampee can remove obstacles, make your breathing smooth and have a good cough relieving effect. If some people have hernia, they can eat the skin of wampee, which is very good. The effect will be better than frying soup.
When eating dried wampee, wash it before eating it, which can also reduce the fire. Although the dry skin and core of wampee are not delicious, thick and tasteless, and not suitable for eating, it will have a good effect of reducing fire.
Huangpi also has high medicinal value. Roots, leaves, fruits and seeds can all be used as medicine, which is helpful for digestion, strengthening stomach, regulating qi and strengthening spleen, promoting qi circulation and relieving pain. Peel can eliminate wind swelling and malnutrition; Seeds can cure hernia, centipede bite and children's head sore.