Cook water chestnuts for about 10-20 minutes to cook.

Water chestnuts can be eaten either raw or cooked. It depends on what texture you like to consume, if you like a bit of crunch, then cook for 10 minutes or so.

It depends on how you eat it. If you use it for dessert, you need to cook it for about 10-20 minutes; if you use it for stir-fry, you can add water chestnuts and stir-fry them quickly when the other ingredients are cooked.

If you want to cook and eat, want to cook to fully cooked, to color deep black, fingernail pinch no crunchy sound like raw, generally about 10-20 minutes of high heat can be, with a pressure cooker about five minutes is enough. Steaming will take longer, at least half an hour.

How to remove the skin of water chestnut:

1, you can use the kind of more friction and will be permeable to the bag, put in the water rubbing vigorously, so that it is easier to clean, and then scrape the skin with a knife.

2, if you use a knife to peel the skin, you should cut off both sides of the skin first, and then peel the skin. When you buy, be sure to pick the bud shorter easy to peel, and then first cut the center and bottom, and finally cut the bud mouth on this, if you pick are the shortest buds, the top is only a little flat, with that paring knife at once peeled off.

3, the market now has a lot of horseshoe peeler, not only easy to operate and very fast. Just put the washed water chestnut into the peeler, the water chestnut will automatically peel from the other side out.