How to cook lotus seeds easily?
Lotus seeds benefit the heart and enter the spleen, kidney and heart meridian. Clearing away heart fire, invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, nourishing heart, tranquilizing mind, improving eyesight, invigorating middle warmer, invigorating stomach, stopping diarrhea, solidifying essence, tonifying kidney and solidifying essence. Lotus seeds are also rich in calcium, phosphorus and potassium, which can maintain muscle elasticity and heartbeat rhythm. Middle-aged and elderly people, especially mental workers, often eat lotus seeds, which helps to stabilize their minds and enhance their memory.
Lotus seeds are best used to cook porridge, so that nutrition can be fully volatilized. But I have a problem. Why are lotus seeds so hard to cook? This is because the epidermis of lotus seeds has a layer of keratin, which thickens with the extension of storage time and is not easy to absorb water and swell. Therefore, if lotus seeds are secondhand goods every other year, they are more likely to be cooked.
So how can lotus seeds be cooked easily? The following small series teaches you a few coups:
1, soaked in hot alkaline water
Soak in hot alkaline water, and the ratio of alkali to water is 10. After the alkali is dissolved, soak the lotus seeds for about an hour. Pinch the lotus seeds with your hands, and then soak them in hot water. The lotus seeds will swell and rot when cooked.
Put it in the refrigerator for a day.
Lotus seeds are put in the refrigerator for a day, and then boiled out, which is easy to rot. You don't need a pressure cooker to cook lotus seeds. Just cook for 5 minutes, then turn off the fire and put it on the stove. The pot is slightly cold, and the fire is boiled. Repeat for three times.
3. Don't put the sugar until it is boiled.
Lotus seeds can only be soaked for a short time (about ten minutes) or not. The reason why lotus seeds can't be cooked is that the soaking time is too long, or it may be related to putting sugar too early. Because the water inside has been analyzed, the lotus seeds will naturally dry up, which will lead to boiling, so it is better to put sugar after boiling.
Lotus seeds smoked with sulfur will not be boiled. How to buy them?
Never buy white lotus seeds. Really good lotus seeds are a little yellow and wrinkled. There are some natural wrinkles or residual red skin on the appearance of high-quality lotus seeds, and there is swelling at the knife mark of inferior lotus seeds; High-quality lotus seeds have smaller holes, while inferior lotus seeds have larger holes.
Sulfur-smoked lotus seeds smell pungent, lotus seeds are not rotten, and cooked lotus seeds have sour taste. Good lotus seeds must be very dry and not wet. Very dry lotus seeds will make a loud and crisp sound when rubbed in their hands, while dry lotus seeds will make a dull sound.
So what you should pay attention to is that the smoked lotus seeds are white and bright, and the whole lotus seeds are almost uniform in color and look beautiful. Those soaked in chemical water have no powder on the surface and smell strange, like disinfectant in the hospital.
Recommendation of several common lotus seed recipes
1, lotus porridge
Use 20 grams of lotus seeds, 0/5 grams of brown sugar/kloc, and 0/00 grams of glutinous rice/kloc. Soak lotus seeds in water for 30 minutes, then take out lotus plumule, put it in a pot with washed glutinous rice, and add water to cook porridge. When the porridge is almost cooked, add brown sugar and cook for a while. Warm clothes on an empty stomach every morning and evening are suitable for all seasons.
The porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, tonifying kidney, arresting spermatorrhea, nourishing heart and calming nerves, and can be used for treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, unstable kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, leukorrhagia in women, palpitation, fatigue, insomnia, etc.
2. Stewed black-bone chicken with lotus seeds
20g lotus seeds, ginkgo 15g, silky fowl 1 one (about 500g). Hair is removed from black-bone chicken, internal organs are washed, ginkgo and lotus seeds are ground into coarse powder, ginger, pepper, onion, refined salt and other seasonings are added, and appropriate amount of water is added to stew until cooked, once a day.
This prescription has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney and stopping leukorrhagia, and is suitable for men and women with qi deficiency, qi deficiency, leucorrhea with red and white discharge and sexual hypofunction.
3. Lotus seed medlar soup
Use 250 grams of lotus seeds, 30 grams of medlar and appropriate amount of sugar. Soak lotus seeds in boiling water, peel off the skin and plumule, wash medlar with cold water for later use, add water to the pot, add lotus seeds and medlar to cook until cooked, and then add appropriate amount of sugar to dissolve.
This prescription has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing heart blood, improving eyesight and calming nerves, and can be used for treating dizziness, anorexia, impotence, nocturnal emission, leukorrhagia, anemia and other diseases caused by deficiency of liver and spleen.
4. Lotus seed ginseng chicken soup
Lotus seed 15g, ginseng 10g, and rock sugar 30g. After removing the heart of lotus seeds, put them in a pot with ginseng, soak them in clear water for 30 minutes, add rock sugar and steam stew 1 hour, and then eat lotus meat and drink soup. Ginseng can be used continuously for 2 times, and can be eaten together with ginseng the second time.
This prescription has the effects of invigorating qi, strengthening spleen, nourishing heart and calming nerves, and is suitable for physical weakness, spleen deficiency, anorexia, mental fatigue, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, insomnia, dreaminess, vexation and chest distress after illness.