How to cook water chestnut?
1. water chestnut
Water chestnut has many colors, including two corners, three corners, four corners, no corners and so on. There are many names, and the green water chestnut shell will turn black when cooked.
First of all, we need to prepare 500g water chestnut, 6g salt and two slices of ginger, soak the water chestnut for about half an hour, then wash the dirt on the surface of the water chestnut, put it in a pot, pour the water into it, and then boil it.
After the water is boiled, pour in the salt, add the ginger slices, cover the pot, and cook for about 15 minutes. After cooking, you can take it out and drain it. The effect is very good.
When eating, we can break it by hand or cut it with a knife. Water chestnut has high nutritional value and is a healthy beauty food. Water chestnut also has certain medicinal value, which can relieve waist and leg pain.
2. water chestnut cake
Cake made of water chestnut and ejiao jujube tastes sweet and greasy, and tastes better than pure glutinous rice, with rich jujube flavor. When making water chestnut cake, you need to use 200g of ejiao jujube, 400g of water chestnut, 0/00g of glutinous rice flour/kloc-0, and 3 pieces of zongzi leaves to prepare two jelly shells.
Soak the leaves of Zongzi in water first, then scrub them clean, cut them into sections for later use, then beat them into jujube paste with Ejiao, cook them with water, and knead them into balls with glutinous rice flour.
After flattening the dough, fill it into the jelly shell, fill it with jujube paste, seal it, flatten it, demould it and put it on the zongzi leaves. Finally, steam over high fire 15 minutes.
3. water chestnut rice
Prepare 20 raw water chestnuts and 4 dried mushrooms, then prepare 3 tablespoons ground meat, then prepare 1/4 onions, 1 tablespoon shrimp, and then prepare two cups of glutinous rice.
The ingredients need to prepare 2 tablespoons of sesame oil, 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, half a spoonful of sugar, and then water.
First, wash the glutinous rice, drain the water, soak it in clear water for four hours, soak the mushrooms until soft, drain and dice, wash the shrimps, and dice the onions for later use.
Wash water chestnut, cut each water chestnut into three sections, preheat the pot, add sesame oil, add chopped green onion, dried shrimps, mushrooms and minced meat in turn, stir-fry until half cooked, add other seasonings, and turn off the heat after stir-frying.
Finally, add glutinous rice to the prepared materials, stir it a little, cook it in a rice cooker, stew it for about 15 minutes, and then stir it gently to serve.
Autumn is the season when water chestnut is listed. People prefer to eat water chestnut, because it can strengthen the body, lose weight and is rich in nutrition, but we must pay attention to the dietary taboos of water chestnut, so as not to harm our health.