2. Add pure water into the bowl, the amount of water should completely cover the bird's nest. Soak the bird's nest for 2-6 hours, soaking time according to the bird's nest tenderness of their own control, the general bird's nest soaking 2-3 hours can be completely soaked open, the older some need to soak 4-6 hours, according to the quality of the bird's nest, do not soak the bird's nest for a whole night, so that soaking out of the bird's nest is not resistant to stewing, it may be stewed out of the 20 minutes on the melting of the water. You can change the water every 2 hours, change the water and tear the bird's nest into strips along the grain, use tweezers to clean up the young hairs and impurities, rinse with clean water a few times, generally the two ends of the bird's nest is thick gelatinous and difficult to soak, you can cut it open to soak separately, soak the bird's nest and put it in a colander to drain.
Soak the bird's nest in cold water as much as possible, don't use hot water, and don't use tap water, most of the disinfectant used in tap water is chlorine dioxide, and its disinfectant will affect the bird's nest to the taste. It is recommended to use pure water to soak and stew, the expansion rate of bird's nest stewed in mineral water is about 3-4 times, much lower than the 7-8 times of pure water, the bird's nest soaked in pure water is softer and smoother, which can minimize the loss of nutrients in bird's nest.
3. Put the bird's nest into the stewing pot (ceramic stewing pot) and add pure water over the level of the bird's nest 2-5cm, the water more than 5cm bird's nest is easy to melt water, cover the lid of the pot.
4, the stew pot into the pot (ordinary steamer can also be) stewing water, should not be used in the pot, cooking and other ways to prevent the loss of nutrients.
5, across the water on low heat (slow fire) stew 20 minutes after the food.
About the stewing time, 10-15 minutes, the stewed bird's nest taste Q-bouncing, the shorter the time, the more crispy. 20-25 minutes, the stewed taste dense. 25-35 minutes, the stewed taste smooth, the longer the time, the softer and even melt water.
6. When the bird's nest is cooled down, it can be put into the refrigerator for storage, and the stewed plain bird's nest can be kept in the refrigerator for a week.