What are the cashew nut practices

Summary: the fruit is named for its nuts in the shape of kidneys, cashew nuts when the fruit is ripe fragrant, sweet as honey, crisp and tasty, for the world famous one of the four major dried fruits. Cashew is a nutritious, sweet flavor of dried fruit, can be eaten as a snack, but also can be made into a delicious dish. Experts have a very high opinion of cashew nuts. What kinds of cashew nuts practice? The efficacy and role of cashew cashew nuts cashew practice what

one, what is cashew nuts

Evergreen tree, trunk erect, up to 10 m. Single leaf leathery, alternate, elliptic or obovate. Panicles, flowering branches in a racemose order. The fruit consists of an expanded fleshy receptacle (fruit pear, i.e., pseudo-fruit) and a nut (seed, i.e., true fruit) borne on the receptacle.

Morphological features

Scientific name: Anacardium+occidentale+L

Alias: Chicken cashew, Kai Shou Guo, _Ru Shu

Family: Lacertidae (Anacardiaceae) cashew genus (Anacardium)

Characteristics and traits: Neutral or even slightly acidic. Soil are suitable, but the root growth of good soil like aeration, poorly drained lowlands, swamps, alkaline soil and soil containing too much salt are not suitable for planting, other types of tropical soil can be planted.

Geographic distribution

Native to northeastern Brazil, it was introduced to Asia and Africa in the 16th century and is now distributed in dozens of countries and regions within 20 degrees north-south latitude. Mozambique, Tanzania, India, Brazil and other countries planted the most, China Hainan and Yunnan are also planted.

Two, cashew effect and role

1, nutritional value

Kernel nut nutrient-rich, mostly used in the production of cashew chocolate, snacks and fried salted food. In addition, cashew kernel oil can be extracted, cashew kernel oil is the best cooking oil, oil cake is excellent feed. By-products are shell liquid, fruit pear and so on. Shell liquid is a kind of dry oil, can be made of high-grade paint, color film colored agent, synthetic rubber and so on. Fruit pear is soft and juicy, can be used as fruit to eat, but also brewing, making juice, jelly, jam, preserves, pickles and so on.

Cashew nut kernel is a valuable dried fruit and high-level dishes, containing protein up to 21% 25, oil content of 40% 25, a variety of vitamin content is also very high. In international trade, each ton of cashew nuts worth more than 5000 U.S. dollars, worthy of the world's "four nuts" (walnuts, walnuts and hazelnuts) one. Cashew nutshell oil content rate of 11% 25, cashew oil can be polymerized to produce synthetic rubber. With cashew nut oil paint furniture can be resistant to high temperatures, according to reports, the U.S. space shuttle, is to use scientifically processed cashew nut oil as the fuselage protective layer of paint.

Cashews are high in calories, and their calorie source is mainly fat, followed by carbohydrates and protein. The fatty acids in cashew nuts are mainly unsaturated fatty acids, with oleic acid accounting for 90% of the unsaturated fatty acids25 and linoleic acid accounting for only 10%25, making cashews less likely to be rancid than other nuts rich in linoleic acid. Cashews contain as much as twice as much protein as the average cereal crop and contain a complementary range of amino acids to those found in cereals.

2, therapeutic efficacy

1. Cashews are fleshy fruit formed by the receptacle, gyroscopic, flat rhombic and ovoid, bright red, orange and yellow-green mixed colors. Flesh crisp and juicy, sweet and sour flavor, is ideal for fresh fruit. In addition to raw food, can also be used to brew wine, etc., and has the effect of water, dehumidification, swelling, can prevent and control gastrointestinal diseases, chronic dysentery and so on.

2. The edible part is born in the top of the kidney-shaped part of the pseudo-fruit, about 25 millimeters long, from greenish gray to yellowish brown (if the selection of the color of white, may be bleached, do not buy), the shell is hard, wrapped in the seed kernel, which is often referred to as "cashews". It is very nutritious, with antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-tumor and anti-cardiovascular disease effects. The fat contained is mostly unsaturated fatty acids, which is a good therapeutic fruit for patients with high blood cholesterol and coronary heart disease. Whether deep-fried, salted, candied, all delicious, unique flavor.

3. Chinese medicine believes that cashews are sweet, flat, non-toxic. Can cure cough, upset, thirst. Materia Medica Gleanings" cloud: cashew nuts "main thirst, moisturize the lungs, to annoy, in addition to phlegm. Sea Drugs Materia Medica" also said: "the main irritability, heart boredom, phlegm, typhoid fever, clearing snot, coughing up air.

Three, what are the practices of cashews

1, Lotus barley cashew soup

Raw materials: cashews, lotus seeds, Poria, Job's tears, Gorgon fruit, lotus root powder 50 grams each, 100 grams of glutinous rice, sugar.

Making

1. cashews, lotus seeds cooked in water, fished out and drained.

2. Poria, Job's Tears, Gorgon fruit, glutinous rice with water to boil soft, put into the juicer into a paste.

3. Add cashew nuts, lotus seeds to the rice soup, add sugar and mix well.

4. Add the lotus root powder with warm water and mix well, add the rice soup and mix well.

Use: morning and evening consumption.

Effects: tonic moisturizing the five organs, tranquilize the spirit, suitable for neurasthenia and insomnia.

2, fried cashews

Steps: frying pan put a little more than the general frying oil, open a small fire, under the cashews, keep stirring, keep the fire small, keep stirring, be patient, until the color slowly become darker, according to your own preference for the state of the fire, sheng into the ceramic or enameled vessels (because to add salt, if you use stainless steel pots and pans, your pot is not good, oh), add the right amount of fine salt! Shake well, so that each one is coated with salt, this time you can taste the salinity, if appropriate, let it cool, waiting to become crispy!

3, salt _ cashews

Production:

1. ready to raw cashews, wipe with a dry rag, if there is time, you can first raw cashews into the salt water slightly boiled, soaked for half an hour or so, fished out to dry, so that cashews are cleaner, more flavorful and fried cashews after the surface of the surface will be a lot of crispy bubbles, more crunchy, but I didn't soak, I think it's very cumbersome, and it's also a very good way to make the cashews. Before I did not soak, I think it is also very crispy, not at all worse than those sold outside.

2. Cold oil in a hot pan, the oil must be a little Oh, more healthy, although this will not be sold as the surface of a lot of crispy bubbles, but the flavor and texture of almost no difference.

3. After the oil is hot, first turn the pan into a small fire, frying, and frying peanut beans as well as frying, I these amount of three minutes or so, like the fire lighter will be less fried, like the fire heavier more fried will be. Out of the pan, sprinkle salt, mix well, cool.

4, shrimp cashews

production:

1. fried cashews, sheng up spare.

2. Pop the shrimp and set aside.

3. hot pan add oil, pour corn, green beans and peppers, pocket a few times, point into the salt, pepper, a few drops of cooking wine, pocket, and then pour into the shrimp, stirring a few times, if you like gravy, and finally make a thin thickening of the can also be, paved with cashews, on the stage.