If it is a little bit older asparagus, you can use hand tear peeling. If it is a little tender asparagus, it is recommended to use a scraper to peel. Note that if you use a knife to peel, the asparagus and the knife can not be held in the hand at the same time, otherwise a knife down, the asparagus will be easy to break, will be placed on the board or tabletop gently peeled

Asparagus need to peel

Asparagus can be peeled and eaten, you can also eat the skin with the cooking. As for when and if asparagus needs to be peeled, it depends on how fresh the asparagus is.

If asparagus is very fresh, then its skin can be removed without the need. Usually it can be used directly for cooking, and the texture is very crunchy and tender.

If the asparagus is left for too long, it is not particularly fresh. Then you need to remove the old skin of the asparagus before using it for cooking. Otherwise the asparagus will taste very old and easy to chew.

How to peel asparagus

1, hand torn

Hand torn method is suitable for the older asparagus. For this type of asparagus, the skin is already tough.

PeelingThe old skin can be torn off directly from the bottom of the asparagus with your hands, until you reach the tender skin that can't be torn off, and then you don't need to tear it anymore.

2, knife scraping

This method is more suitable for not too old asparagus, relatively tender asparagus.

Peeling operation in the scraping of the skin as long as the asparagus flat on the table, and then the left hand pressed the asparagus, the right hand holding the scraper from the bottom of the asparagus, directly little by little up to scrape the skin can be.

How to fry asparagus is delicious

The taste of asparagus is very fresh, and there are many ways to fry it. Commonly, there are stir-fried asparagus, asparagus fried shrimp, asparagus fried mushrooms and so on. It is recommended that you can choose according to your personal taste preferences.

Which asparagus fried shrimp is a very tasty match. Asparagus taste fresh, shrimp taste crisp, so with the fried together not only more nutritious. And do do out of the dish, the color is also very bright, make people appetite, so by the public favorite.

Fried asparagus to blanch

Asparagus contains a substance called oxalic acid. This substance, when it enters the body, combines with water-soluble proteins in the body and causes saliva to lose its lubricity. Thus, the epithelial tissue of the tongue is contracted, so it easily makes the human body appear numb mouth, astringent situation.

Therefore it is advisable to blanch asparagus before frying it. This can remove about 50%-80% of the oxalic acid, and after blanching the asparagus, can relatively reduce the next frying time. So that the asparagus can maintain the bright green color without discoloration, it will look a little better.