Ingredients

Main Ingredients

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300g of water chestnuts

Seasoning

Water

Amount

How to Boil Water Chestnuts

Water chestnuts can be used both as a fruit and as a vegetable, and the season of the Little Cold is the time when the water chestnuts are the sweetest, and in spring, water chestnuts are considered to be a late harvest. The most common way to make water chestnuts is to make them in a way that they are not as sweet as they used to be. The most common way to cook water chestnuts is to boil them in water. Boiled water chestnuts have always been the usual way for Jiangxi people to eat water chestnuts. Raw water chestnuts are crisp and juicy, and boiled water chestnuts are sweet and warm, but water chestnuts are cold, so it is not easy to eat them raw or cooked.

Every year in the first month, many families in Jiangxi will cook a bowl full of boiled water chestnuts, and peanuts and candy placed together as a guest to pay tribute to the New Year's fruit snacks. This custom continues to this day.

Materials:

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1. Use a small brush to brush the skin of water chestnuts, put them into a cooking pot (avoid using an iron pot), and pour 4-5 times the amount of water on them

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2. Set the cooking pot on the fire, and after boiling over high heat, turn the heat to a small fire to cook the water chestnuts in the pot

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3. Until the water chestnuts are cooked through. When the water in the last pot is almost dry, open the lid of the pot, hand Chao cooking pot, let the water chestnuts slowly juice, so that the water chestnuts cooked dry water is especially sweet, especially delicious. (Note that this is a great secret to making boiled water chestnuts taste good!)

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4. When the water chestnuts are cooled down, put them into cool boiled water to wash away the sugar stickers on the outer skin

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5. Dry the outer skin of the washed cooked water chestnuts and peel them when eating

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Cooking tips

1, water chestnuts should choose large, dark purple skin, short thick buds, this water chestnut taste sweet and crisp.

2, water chestnuts must be peeled and eaten, because water chestnuts grow in paddy fields and their skins are prone to gathering harmful and toxic biological excretions, parasites and chemical substances. In addition to water chestnuts, the skins of potatoes, sweet potatoes and persimmons should not be eaten.

3, water chestnut is cold food, the spleen and stomach cold people avoid eating more.

4, after collecting the juice, there are sugary substances adhering to the skin of water chestnut, must be washed with cool boiled water before it is suitable for hand grasping.