Food waste vegetable peels, radish heads and tails, mushroom stems, corn cobs, etc. can be temporarily frozen in a sealed bag in the refrigerator. When the sealed bag is full, you can take it out and cook it into a pot of vegetables. It’s soup.
The purple skin of passion fruit is removed, soaked with passion fruit jam, and then baked to make dried fruit!
When stewing pork and bacon soup, throw away half an orange peel to remove the fishiness and enhance the flavor; dice the orange peel and pickle it with salt to squeeze out the bitter water, then add garlic, chili, soy sauce, vinegar, white pepper, etc. for cold dressing, and bring to a boil in a spoonful The oil pours out the soul, and served cold with chopped wild onions, it’s a perfect meal! Peel the cabbage leaf stems (the thick main stem) to the last remaining bitter core and use it to pickle the pickles;
Peel off the peels of various oranges such as sugar oranges, then cut into shreds or slices, and slightly Let it dry, then stir-fry with green garlic sprouts or make radish soup~
Not only are the roots delicious, but the leaves are also delicious. If you go to the wet market to buy vegetables, you can ask the stall owner to give you the lettuce leaves that others don’t want. , add salt and squeeze out the bitter water, then mix it with sesame oil, sugar and chicken essence, add some chopped dried spices, and it can be sold directly.
Clean out the remaining melon seeds from the pumpkin, microwave them on high for 8 minutes, and the pumpkin seeds my grandma gave me when I was a kid are ready! Slice the kohlrabi root and kill it with water, salt it a little, then mix it with light soy sauce + sesame oil and make it into a side dish. Eat it with porridge in the morning. It is very crispy and delicious.
Most of the time, the stems of broccoli are thrown away, which is a shame. Remove the skin, slice and cut into sections, pickle with salt and drain the water, then make cold salad or stir-fry some meat, it will be crispy and super delicious.
Every summer, our family prepares cold watermelon rind. The crispy watermelon rind is delicious. Wash it first and peel off the outer skin, as well as the area bordering the meat. Soak it in cold water, then add salt and let it sit. Mix it with some soy sauce and sesame oil. It’s delicious!
You can cut the grapefruit peel into thin slices and fry it! It’s super fragrant, but not the honey pomelo. Our Guangxi Shatian pomelo is super delicious when fried
Tips for preserving fresh fish! Remove the scales, remove the internal organs and dry the fresh fish. Stuff the stomach with kitchen paper. Keep the whole fish slightly moist and wrap it with kitchen paper. Then wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator to keep it fresh. You can eat it the next day or the third day. It loses its freshness and even has some aging effect!
It is too troublesome to peel and mince the garlic every time, so cut it once and freeze it into small cubes of minced garlic in a silicone ice cube. When you want to use it, just take out one or two cubes, or mix it in again. Grated ginger, dried chili shreds, millet chili, etc. are turned into compound spices and then frozen.
White sugar will harden easily after being stored for a long time. Just add a piece of pear skin to the jar and it will be soft again the next day!
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Before cooking the quick-frozen dumplings, cook them in the microwave on high heat for one minute. The speed is much faster and the dough is not easy to stiffen. . It saves gas and time compared to pouring three bowls of cold water.
The scallion rolls are steamed/rotated first, and then baked until the skin is brown and crispy, and you get a super low-cost scallion-flavored bread.
Press the tofu with a heavy object overnight to squeeze out the water, then add some oyster sauce, pepper and your favorite seasonings. Bake/fry it in the oven or air fryer and it will taste like fried chicken. It is not greasy at all!
Roast the bell peppers in the oven for half an hour or more to make the skin black, then remove the skin and turn the inside into a jelly-like texture. The sweetness is concentrated and the astringency is gone. When used as a seafood main It is also delicious as a side dish or pasta topping, or as a salad dressing!
Garlic must be added to stir-fry meat, ginger must be added to stewed ribs, blanch the ribs before stewing, stir-fry the tomatoes before making soup to make the soup thicker, and marinate the meat with starch + light soy sauce to make it more tender.
Put the tomatoes in the freezer first and take them out when you use them. Peeling them is super convenient and they will rot easily.
How to peel garlic! It is particularly convenient to break the garlic into cloves, soak them in water for 5 minutes, and then peel them.
It is more effective to soak pineapple directly in boiling water for five minutes than soaking it in salt water. It will become as sweet as canned pineapple.
To cook large vegetables such as lentils and wild rice, you don’t need to heat the oil in the pot like baby greens. Use a cast iron pot directly add a little oil and a little water to cool the pot. Cover the lid and turn on medium heat. Wait until you hear the pot. When it crackles, open it and do the seasoning and subsequent steps. This is also a way to stir-fry vegetables with more gas and less oil.
When frying vegetables, after putting the vegetables down, immediately add an appropriate amount of hot water and cover the pot for a few minutes. After opening, you will harvest a dish of green vegetables that are full of vitality (after closing the lid of the pot) Just don’t open it all the time, even if you open the seam! It will turn yellow easily).
Insert the toothpick into the stem of the cabbage vertically to keep it longer; spicy hotpot/turkey noodles cooked with milk are more delicious.
Turning carbohydrates into crispy rice, such as intentionally leaving a piece of cake on the bottom of the pot when frying rice or rice cakes. The glutinous rice cakes I packed back for dinner turned into crispy rice after being heated in the microwave for five minutes. They were as delicious as biscuits.
When frying fish, first put a few slices of ginger and a little salt into the pot so that the fish skin will not stick to the pot easily. After frying one side, turn off the heat and wait 10 minutes before turning the fish over so that the skin will not stick to the pan. This uses the principle of thermal expansion and contraction.
Sauteing shredded potatoes in butter will give you a wonderful sweetness that combines Chinese and Western flavors.