The correct way to eat gorgonians:
1, gorgonian berries wolfberry silver ear soup.
2, strengthened red bean barley porridge.
3, barley Gorgonzola yam porridge.
4, gorgonian lotus seed boiled pig heart.
5, lotus seed Gorgon fruit porridge.
Gorgonian fruit:
Gorgonian fruit, Chinese medicine. For the water lily plant gorgonian Euryale ferox?Salisb. dry mature seed kernel. Distributed from Heilongjiang to Yunnan and Guangdong.
Annual large aquatic herb. Submerged leaves arrow-shaped or elliptic-reniform, 4-10 cm long, unarmed on both surfaces; petiole unarmed; floating leaves leathery, elliptic-reniform to orbicular, 10-130 cm in diameter, peltate, with or without a curved emargination, entire, purplish, pubescent below, sharply spined on both surfaces at the vein-branches; petioles and pedicels stout, up to 25 cm long, all with stiff spines.
Flowers about 5 cm long; sepals lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm long, purple inside, outside densely slightly curved stiff spines; petals rectangular-orbicular lanceolate or lanceolate, 1.5-2 cm long, purplish-red, arranged in several whorls, tapering inward into stamens.
No style, stigma red, into a concave stigma disk. Berry globose, 3-5 cm in diam., purplish red, outside densely covered with hard spines; seeds globose, more than 10 mm in diam. Flowers in July-August, fruit in August-September.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Gorgon fruit