Beef lily is cleanest and fastest when cleaned with salt.

Before cleaning with salt, soak the beef lily leaves in cold water for about 20 minutes, the purpose of this step is to soften the leaves and make it easier to remove the dirt. Next, tear the white membrane from the beef lily leaves to remove the fatty oil. This step is the key to cleaning the beef lily leaves, as the white membrane is the main source of fat and dirt in the leaves.

Then, scrub with salt and oil several times. This step is to further remove dirt and odor. Place the beef lily leaves in a large bowl, add a pinch of salt and oil, rub with your hands several times, then pour off the water and dirt. Add the water again and repeat the rubbing and pouring off process until the water is clean. Finally, rinse off with water, this step is to clean off any remaining salt and oil.

Notice of cleaning beef lily

Because the texture of beef lily is relatively loose, you need to pay attention to rinse it thoroughly when cleaning to avoid residual impurities that affect the taste and health. You can rinse with water several times until there are no impurities and foam.

Bull's-eye leaves are easy to cook, and usually only need to be blanched. When cooking, you can scald the leaves in boiling water, not too long, so as not to harden the texture. If used for roasted vegetables, you can first blanch to remove the fishy flavor, and then cook with the burning method, the taste is better.

Beef leaves can also take ginger lemon soak way to clean, in order to clean without flavor. The method is to add ginger and lemon slices in warm water, and then placed in which the cow leaves soak for half an hour, not only to remove the fishy flavor on the cow leaves, but also soak out the dirty material, rinse with water and gently rub, can be cleaned.