Water chestnut is a common name of water chestnut, which is a perennial herb growing in paddy fields. We eat flat underground stems. According to the data, water chestnut has a long history of being used as medicine. Among them, "Fun Life Diet Spectrum" summarizes the health care function of water chestnut in only 26 words, namely: "Water chestnut is sweet in taste and cold in nature. Clearing away heat, promoting digestion, sobering up, treating diaphragm, killing malnutrition, melting copper, removing phlegm, relieving flatulence, treating dysentery, and regulating collapse.
Modern scientific research also found that horseshoe is rich in starch, protein, crude fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B 1, B2, C and so on. It also contains water chestnut, which is an effective component for anti-cancer and lowering blood pressure.
Chinese medicine often uses horseshoe to make "Tang Xue Decoction", which can clear away heat and reduce phlegm, lower blood pressure and treat dry stool. Chinese medicine believes that drinking fresh water chestnut with reed rhizome and fresh lotus root juice is an ideal drink for clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
Because of the cold horseshoe, the weak and children with enuresis should avoid eating it. In addition, you should pay attention to hygiene when eating raw horseshoes, wash them before eating, and it is best to scald them with boiling water. Horseshoe can also be used as medicine. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "Horseshoe can clear away heat and quench thirst, treat spleen heat, invigorate qi and eliminate dampness, stimulate appetite, clear heart and improve eyesight, relieve fever and sterilize, clear jaundice, lower blood pressure and treat various diseases. Horseshoe is a kind of raw vegetable with edible and medicinal value, which was once a tribute of Ming and Qing dynasties. Horseshoe is different. Its meat is white and smooth, high in water content, sweet and slag-free, crisp and delicious. It is more delicious to make a dish with chicken, duck, mushrooms and tremella.
Yangzhou shizitou
The best pork belly is chopped without adding water or stirring, thrown back and forth in containers like adobe in rural areas, or beaten with boards. When it is thick, add egg white and chopped water chestnut (that is, water chestnut), add seasoning and beat well, and finally make it into a blank, fry it in boiling oil until the surface is unified, and stew it in a pot for about an hour. Less water in soy sauce is stew, and more water without soy sauce is stew. Braised mushrooms or bamboo shoots and Chinese cabbage are also acceptable for cooking. Stewed dishes don't need the bottom of the pot. Put the cabbage heart after stewing in the casserole, which looks refreshing and tastes good.
Stir-fried pork liver with horseshoe
Raw materials: peeled horseshoe 150g, pork liver 180g, garlic sprout 120g, egg white 1, starch, cooking wine, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and broth, refined salt.
Method:
1. Cut horseshoe into 0.3cm thick pieces, wash pig liver, slice, wash garlic sprout and cut into 2cm long pieces.
2. Add egg white, starch, salt, cooking wine and soy sauce to the pork liver, mix well, fry in an 80% hot oil pan for about 3 minutes, and remove. Leave the bottom oil in the pot, stir fry the garlic seedlings, add a little broth, add salt, monosodium glutamate and wet starch, add pork liver and water chestnut, stir well, take out of the pot and plate.
Features: pork liver is fresh and tender, and water chestnut is waxy outside and crisp inside, which is a good accompaniment.
Xiangxing horseshoe salad
Ingredients: Main ingredients: almond granules and fresh horseshoe granules.
Ingredients: mixed seasoning with kraft sauce, wax gourd, leek and carrot sticks.
Production method:
1. Mix almonds and horseshoes with Kafumiao sauce, and cut wax gourd into square pieces to make the pattern of calla lily.
2. Mix almonds and horseshoes with Kraft's wonderful sauce, put them in the calla lily flower grave made of wax gourd, and then add carrot sticks mixed with essence to make a flower heart.
3. Put the prepared calla lilies into a dish decorated with leeks.
Features: delicious and fragrant.
Horseshoe with Chinese sauerkraut
Ingredients: horseshoe (canned)
Accessories: sauerkraut, green pepper
Seasoning: onion, ginger, pickled pepper, salt, chicken essence, cooking oil.
Exercise:
1. Slice horseshoe, wash pickled cabbage and cut into pieces with an oblique knife, wash onion, ginger and pickled pepper and cut into powder;
2. Wash the green pepper, cut it into strips, blanch it with boiling water, remove it and drain it for later use;
3. Put water chestnut, pickled cabbage and green pepper into a vessel, add salt and chicken essence and mix well;
4. Put the oil into the pot by ignition. When the oil is hot, add chopped pickled pepper, chopped green onion and Jiang Mo and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in the mixed horseshoe, pickled cabbage and green pepper, stir well and then take out the pan.
Features: Crispy, slightly sweet and sour.
Hawthorn horseshoe juice
【 Ingredients 】 Hawthorn 10 white sugar and fresh water chestnut 10.
[Method] 1. Wash the hawthorn, peel and wash the fresh water chestnut, squeeze it into juice and pour it into a cup. 2. Add sugar to the juice of hawthorn and horseshoe, and stir well to serve. Note: Hawthorn, also known as red fruit, has the function of promoting gastrointestinal digestion and slimming.
Water chestnut, ginkgo and egg drop soup
Features Horseshoe can clear away heat and toxic materials, clear excess heat in the chest, clear away heat and diuresis, and lower blood pressure. It is more effective to moisten and prevent heat-toxic colds when mixed with ginkgo, egg flower and rock sugar, and tastes delicious.
In the production process, the horseshoe is peeled and washed, slightly cut into small pieces, ginkgo is shelled, crystal sugar and eggs are added, and the soup is boiled for 2 hours.
It shows that this soup is mainly horseshoe, and it is stuffed. This soup is suitable for those with summer dampness and excess heat, and it is contraindicated for those with deficiency cold. Eating too many raw horseshoes makes people worm, and eating too much under the navel is firm and painful.
Mati Zhi Zhu braised pork
Ingredients: ten pieces of horseshoe meat, one piece of Zhi Zhu, four mushrooms, onion, red pepper, Jiang Mo, minced garlic, barbecue.
How to make it: cut the barbecue into pieces. Soak Zhi Zhu and cut into pieces (fresh Zhi Zhu is better). Soak mushrooms and cut into pieces.
Heat the wok, add oil and stir-fry the barbecue. Then add ginger and garlic and stir fry. Then add water to water chestnut, Zhi Zhu and mushroom, season and stew for 8- 10 minutes. Stir-fry the red pepper and onion together, and serve.
Features: Ma Tishuang is very sweet. Zhi Zhu is very nutritious. The meat is delicious. Neutralize each other, it smells good!
Salted fish, horseshoe eggs and meatballs
Materials:
Mildew salted fish 100g, semi-fat and lean pork 400g, horseshoes 5, shredded ginger 1 teaspoon, eggs 1 piece. Soy sauce 1 tbsp, sugar 1/4 tbsp, cornflour 1 tbsp, and a little pepper to taste.
Exercise:
① Wash salted fish, put it in a dish, add ginger and 1/2 tbsp oil, steam it in water, take it out, remove the bones and chop it into minced fish.
② Wash the horseshoe, peel it and cut it into small pieces.
(3) Wash the semi-lean pork, chop it into minced meat, add the chopped salted fish, horseshoe, eggs and seasoning, and stir evenly until it becomes sticky.
(4) Divide the above materials into several parts, make them round, and sprinkle a little raw flour.
⑤ Heat the wok, add 5 tablespoons of oil, add meatballs, flatten them slightly, turn to low heat until both sides are cooked, and then serve.
Strawberry jam lobster horseshoe.
Make use of the freshness of lobster meat, the brittleness of horseshoe and the sweetness of strawberry jam to make this appetizer with enough weight to "start the year". The head and shell of lobster can be put aside for decoration after being cooked, and its majestic appearance is full of the meaning of "Dragon and Horse Spirit".
Ingredients: lobster, horseshoe, strawberry jam, chicken juice, etc.
Exercise:
1. Take out the lobster meat and cut it into cubes. Marinate the bottom flavor (that is, marinate lobster with a little salt and oil to make it have a basic flavor).
2, the horseshoe is washed and cut into pieces, flying away.
3. Cook the lobster meat in boiling oil, add the material head, a little strawberry jam and chicken juice, then add the appropriate seasoning according to your own taste and fry until cooked.
After the lobster shell is cooked with boiling water, it can be put aside for decoration to increase the weight of the dish.
Stir-fried four treasures
Ingredients: carrot, water chestnut, black fungus, Dutch bean.
Practice: All four materials were washed and sliced. First, stir-fry the carrots with low fire, and then add other raw materials. Finally, sprinkle some salt and monosodium glutamate into the pot.
Spicy diced chicken [the name of a Chinese dish cooked with diced chicken and Chili]
Raw materials: tender chicken 150g, dried starch 6g, pickled pepper 6g, soy sauce, white sugar, refined salt, chopped green onion, ginger wet starch, yellow wine, balsamic vinegar, monosodium glutamate, 1 egg, diced water chestnut (or walnut and lettuce). rare
Method:
1. Dice chicken, add egg white, dried starch and refined salt, mix well, stir-fry diced horseshoe with ingredients in Wanglade 10 second, then add pickled pepper, onion and ginger.
2. Mix sugar, yellow wine, soy sauce with wet starch and vinegar, pour into the pot and stir-fry a few times. Key points: when frying, you should master the fire, and the fire should be slightly bigger.