Edible processing method of water chestnut skin
1. You can soak water chestnut in light salt water for an hour or two, and then take it out and peel it off. At this time, the skin is a little soft and easy to peel off. Before peeling, you'd better make a few small holes in the water chestnut shell with a knife.
2. Remove the skin of water chestnut directly with a knife. Before peeling, remove the skin from the sprouting part of water chestnut with a knife, and then peel it slowly with a knife, so it will be easy to remove the skin from water chestnut.
It is also a good choice to peel water chestnut with machine. In some hardware stores, there are special water chestnut peelers. You can come back and use one. Water chestnut is washed and put directly in the machine. The peeled water chestnut will be separated from another exit, which is very convenient.
How to eat water chestnut 1. Eat it as fruit.
Water chestnut can be eaten raw as fruit, but it is not suitable to eat too much raw, which is easy to bloat. Children and the elderly should not eat more people with spleen and stomach deficiency and poor digestive function. In addition, water chestnut grows in paddy fields and is easily infected with common parasites in water. If you don't wash it, you can easily get Jiang Ye's disease if you eat it raw. Therefore, raw food should be fully soaked and washed, scalded with boiling water, and peeled before eating.
Second, speculation.
Fried shrimps with water chestnut
Ingredients: 300g fresh shrimp, water chestnut 100g, egg white 1, a little cucumber, salad oil, chicken soup, onion, ginger slices, cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate and starch.
Exercise:
1. Wash the shrimps, cut a knife at the spine of each shrimp, and take out the mud sausage; Peel water chestnut, cucumber and carrot and cut them into dices.
2. Add salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, egg white and starch into the shrimp, stir well and marinate until it tastes delicious.
3. Put the onion, ginger slices, cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken soup and starch into a bowl and make juice.
4. Heat the oil in the pan, stir-fry the shrimp until it is 70% cooked, stir-fry the diced garlic, cucumber and carrot slightly, and pour in the prepared juice and stir well.
Diced horseshoe chicken
Raw materials: chicken 250g, horseshoe 75g, oil1500g, noodle sauce10g, cooking wine15g, soy sauce15g, sugar 40g, salt 2g, monosodium glutamate 5g, eggs 25g and water starch 50g.
Exercise:
1. Dice the chicken, put it in a bowl, add the eggs, starch and noodles, and catch well;
2. Scoop the oil, stir-fry the horseshoe, cut the diced chicken for a while and pour it out. Add oil, batter, sugar, oil, cooking wine, salt and monosodium glutamate to the original spoon, stir well, pour in diced chicken, nuts, cucumber slices and red pepper segments, and thicken with sesame oil.
Stir-fried peas with horseshoe
Ingredients: Dutch beans, water chestnut, salt, chicken essence and sausage.
Exercise:
1. Tear off the bean gluten by the way after breaking both ends of the pea. Boil the water in the pot and blanch the peas. Remember to put them in cold water and peel the water chestnut. Water chestnut cut into pieces, medium thickness.
2. Drain the oil after hot pot. Add sausage, stir-fry, add peas, stir-fry over high fire for a while, then add horseshoe, stir-fry for a while, add salt, and finally add chicken essence to serve.
The best time to eat water chestnut is to eat water chestnut in winter. Water chestnut is abundant in 1 1 month and1February every year. At this time, it is sweet and juicy, crisp and delicious.
Water chestnut can be eaten overnight and is suitable for eating after meals.
The purchase method of water chestnut 1 Look: the natural color of water chestnut should be red and black, which is old-fashioned, while the soaked water chestnut is fresh and tender. If the horseshoes you see are unusually bright red and evenly distributed, it is doubtful.
2. Smell: Normal horseshoes have no irritating smell. If they smell, you should pay attention.
3. Touch: When buying horseshoes, pay attention to observe whether there is deterioration, softness and corruption. At the same time, by squeezing the horns of horseshoes, the soaked horseshoes will stick yellow sweat on their hands.
The side effect of water chestnut is 1. Although water chestnut is good for the elderly, eating too much will lead to impatience.