Generally, dried walnut flowers should be soaked in boiling water for 30 minutes, then washed with warm water, and then taken out and washed for later use. It can be cold or fried.
Walnut flowers are about ten or twenty centimeters long, with a little green on their white faces, which looks like a brush. Remove the stamens, only take the stems, soak them with cold water, and change the water every morning and evening for six days. Then the stems will turn white and black, and then they can be eaten out of the water, waiting for cutting and cooking. No trouble. Stir-fry with animal fat, collect water a little, and you can eat.
When walnut flowers came into the market, people in mountainous areas collected walnut flowers and dried them directly as dehydrated wild vegetables. When in use, it can be soaked in water and directly stir-fried. It is also a home-cooked dish for mountain people.
Walnut flower is rich in phospholipids, which is beneficial to enhance human cell vitality, promote human hematopoietic function, effectively reduce blood lipid and cholesterol, and prevent arteriosclerosis.
The nutritional components of walnut flower were analyzed and compared with dried bracken and dehydrated cabbage. The results showed that the content of protein in walnut flowers was as high as 265,438 0%. Of the total amino acids of 18.22%, the essential amino acids are 4 1.2%, glutamic acid is 23%, tryptophan is 8.7%, and the branched-chain amino acids are also high, but the sulfur-containing amino acids are low, which is the first restrictive amino acid, CBV 4 1.44. Crude fiber is less than half of dried bracken, but ash is more than twice that of dried bracken. The contents of potassium, iron, manganese and zinc are higher than those of bracken and dehydrated Chinese cabbage, and the K/Na is as high as 500. The contents of β-carotene, VB2, VC and VE are higher than those of Pteridium aquilinum, which is a good natural nutrition and health food resource. In addition, it is rich, concentrated and has traditional eating habits, so it is worth further development.