One, it is not recommended to eat. Overnight food nitrite content exceeds the standard, harmful to the body, in order to health do not eat overnight lotus root.

Two, overnight lotus root cooked if placed too long, under the decomposition of bacteria, nitrate will be reduced to nitrite, carcinogenic, heating can not be removed.

Lotus root how to store

1. mud coating lotus root storage. Selected yellow earth broken and remove gravel and other debris, add water to make a paste, and then put the whole root into this mud impregnation, to be evenly wrapped in mud on the root body, take out, loaded into the box or straw bale, bundled can be. If the mud dries and falls off, it can be impregnated once more according to the above method. Suitable for short-term storage and transportation sales.

2. Constant temperature water storage. The harvested lotus root with mud back into the water temperature of 5 ℃ ~ 8 ℃ in the pool, can be fresh for about 1 month. Can also be dug out of the field lotus root, slightly washed, loaded into bushels or woven bags, every 70 kilograms or so 1 package, placed in the water depth of 1 meter, lower temperature

the water, so that the bag under the mud is not sticking to the surface of the water, on the surface of the water is not exposed, above the cover a layer of thick 6 cm ~ 10 cm of water plants, can be sold at any time.

Lotus root soup common practice

Lotus root ribs soup

Raw materials: 350 grams of pork ribs, 350 grams of lotus root, 2 scallions, ginger 1 piece.

Seasoning: 1 tbsp cooking wine, 1 tsp pepper, 2 tsp salt, 1 tsp monosodium glutamate (MSG).

Practice:

(1) Wash the ribs, drain and chop them into small pieces. The lotus root is washed and peeled, and then cut into cubes. Ginger flattened, scallions washed and knotted.

(2) first in the pot pour the right amount of water, put half of the ginger, scallions, cooking wine, large fire boil and then into the spare ribs, cook out of the spare ribs of the blood foam and other dirty things, draining water to be used.

(3) the original pot clean, and then add the amount of water, put the ribs and the other half of the ginger, scallions, high-fire boil after removing the residual foam, and then turn to low-fire, stew for about 20 minutes.

(4) After 20 minutes, all the things in the pot together into the casserole, high heat boil and then turn to low heat and slowly simmer for about half an hour.

(5) Then pick out the soup ginger shallots, throw away without. Put salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate seasoning can be out of the pot.

tips: if you add soybeans, peanuts, corn, etc., you can make the common soybean lotus root rib soup, peanut lotus root rib soup, corn lotus root rib soup.