? The active ingredients of bamboo fungus can supplement the necessary nutrients for the human body and improve the body's immunity and disease resistance. So how to eat the dried bamboo fungus that you buy and what are the ways to make it? Let’s find out together.
1. How to eat dried bamboo fungus
To eat dried bamboo fungus, you must first soak it. Let’s take a look at how to soak dried bamboo fungus.
1. Rinse with cold water (sometimes it’s hard to find a good store. I recommend Bamboo Fungus to buy Yikande!)
Since the bamboo fungus is mesh-shaped, the seams are It is easy to get dirty, so you need to wash each one with your hands before cooking to remove internal and external impurities. Bamboo fungus is easy to cook when exposed to heat, so it is recommended to rinse it with cold water. Rinsing can help remove chemical residues.
2. Soak in warm water
After washing, soak in room temperature water for about 15 to 30 minutes. At the same time, cut off the cap head, which is the connection part between the bacterial body and the bacterial skirt. This is the bamboo fungus monster. main source. The recommended soaking time is 30 minutes. If soaked for too long, the taste will be too soft.
3. Blanch in boiling water
Finally, put the bamboo fungus into a pot of boiling water, drop in a little white vinegar, and blanch it for 2 to 3 minutes to remove the odor of the bamboo fungus. It tastes better. After taking it out of the pot, cut it into a size suitable for your mouth and you can cook it twice.
2. A complete list of ways to make bamboo fungus
There are many ways to make bamboo fungus. It can be fried, stewed, or cooked with other dishes. . A common way to eat it is to cook and eat bamboo fungus with various common ingredients in daily life. Here are a few ways to do it.
1. Bamboo fungus and radish soup
Ingredients: 80 grams of bamboo fungus, 4 mushrooms, 320 grams each of radish and carrot, 160 grams of lean meat, 2 slices of ginger, appropriate amount of salt .
Method:
(1) Wash all materials, soak bamboo fungus in water and cut into sections; soak mushrooms and remove stems; cut radish into pieces; blanch lean meat before Wash.
(2) Bring an appropriate amount of water to a boil and add all the ingredients. After boiling, lower the heat and simmer for 2 hours. Add salt to taste.
2. Bamboo fungus chicken soup?
Ingredients: half chicken, wolfberry, 10 bamboo fungus roots, salt, pepper, onion, ginger
Method :
(1) Wash and chop the chicken into pieces and set aside. Soak the dried bamboo fungus in light salt water for a few minutes. Cut off the white ring at the root, clean it and set aside. Soak the wolfberry in clean water.
(2) Put enough water in the pot, put the chicken pieces under cold water, bring to a boil over high heat and then turn off the heat for two minutes, take out the chicken pieces and clean them.
(3) Put the blanched chicken pieces, ginger slices, and green onions in a casserole. After boiling over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for about an hour until the chicken pieces are soft.
(4) Add the bamboo fungus and continue to cook for 10 minutes.
(5) Add the pre-soaked wolfberry, continue to simmer for 5 minutes, and season with salt and pepper. You can sprinkle chopped green onion or coriander when drinking.
Tips:
It is best to soak the bamboo fungus in light salt water to remove the strange smell of the bamboo fungus. Cut off the white ring at the root. If you don’t mind the smell, you don’t need to remove it.
3. Bamboo fungus, red dates and tremella soup
Ingredients: bamboo fungus, tremella, red dates, honey, water
Method:
( 1) Wash the red dates, wash and soak the bamboo fungus and tremella in hair. It is best to soak the bamboo fungus in light salt water to remove the strange smell. Cutting off the cap head of the bamboo fungus, which is the closed end, can also effectively remove part of the strange smell.
(2) Put an appropriate amount of water, bamboo fungus, red dates and white fungus into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook for 40 minutes. After it cools down, pour in an appropriate amount of honey.
4. Bamboo fungus refreshing drink (a friend recommended me Kant’s bamboo fungus, which has a good review in a certain store, haha!)
People sometimes get angry for no reason. I have been suffering from sores in my mouth and nose recently, and have been irritable and angry. This soup is an excellent soup for clearing away heat, reducing fire, nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs.
Ingredients: 20g lotus seeds, 10g lily, 2 bamboo fungus, 4g dried figs, 30g poria, 2 candied dates, 1500ml water, appropriate amount of rock sugar
Method:
< p> (1) Prepare all ingredients;(2) Soak poria, lotus seeds, lily, and bamboo fungus in water for 5 minutes;
(3) Rinse figs and candied dates and set aside Put it into the health pot, wash all the soaked materials and put them into the health pot, add water to the 1500ml position; select the health soup button, press start, and the health pot starts to work;
(4) Soon the soup will be ready The color has changed;
(5) When the time is up, pour it into a bowl and start drinking. You can add an appropriate amount of rock sugar.