How long does it take to cook lotus seeds?

Lotus seed is hard, boiled lotus seed, it is generally necessary to cook half an hour to cook the lotus seed, but after the lotus seed is cooked taste is not very good, but also need to cook more, will be cooked, will be cooked with the lotus seed with a long time, using ordinary iron pot to cook, it is generally about 1 ~ 2 hours. If you are using a pressure cooker to cook, 30 ~ 40 minutes can be.

If you want the lotus seeds to be easier to be cooked, then you can put the lotus seeds in water to soak for a period of time before cooking, so that its internal water absorption before cooking, so that the lotus seeds will be easier to be cooked. Or put the soaked lotus seeds in the refrigerator for a while, so that the water contained in the lotus seeds will form ice crystals and puncture the cell membrane, in the process of cooking will be easier to be cooked.

Lotus seed can be done cooking

1, lotus seed sugar water: the lotus seed is washed, boiled in boiling water, and then add an appropriate amount of rock sugar slowly cook, and finally add an appropriate amount of goji berries, can be eaten. This sugar water is sweet and delicious, perfect for a bowl in the summer.

2, lotus stew pigeon soup: pigeon slaughtered and cleaned, and lotus together into the stew pot, add the right amount of water and ginger, with a slow stewing way to simmer for about 2 hours, until the pigeon meat cooked rotten. This dish has an excellent flavor and is perfect for drinking in winter.

3, lotus seed brown rice porridge: lotus seed and brown rice porridge, you can first soften the lotus seed with hot water and then cook, brown rice directly into the pot and lotus seed with boiling, and then turn to a low fire slow cooking until the rice porridge can be cooked. The taste of this porridge is better than white porridge.