The cleaning method of water chestnut
1, after the water chestnut is cleaned and boiled, put it in salt water to soak for a period of time, and then rinse it with cold water and peel the skin will be able to be much faster.
2, the water chestnut will be washed, with a knife to peel, if you use a knife to remove the top and bottom part of the first, and then peeled. Also, buy water chestnuts when picking buds are shorter, so that the water chestnuts that sweet and easy to peel, pick the water chestnuts if the top is only a little flat, with a paring knife can be peeled off at once.
Note: Be careful when using the knife, because the meat of the water chestnut is very tender, the force can only be skillful.
3, the preparation of a concentration of 20% sodium hydroxide, heated to boiling water chestnuts will be poured into the water chestnuts, 4-5 minutes after the fish out, in the water rubbing, and then add a concentration of 2% of hydrochloric acid and neutralization of 6 minutes, and then wash with water, rubbing, you can quickly remove the skin of the water chestnuts.
4, boiled with water, water chestnuts after cooking, after a little cool, you can quickly remove the skin, raw water chestnuts to peel in the water chestnut fresh time to peel, wait until it is not fresh and no moisture to peel is not easy.
5, with the kind of more friction and will be permeable to water bags, put in the water rubbing vigorously, so that it is easier to wash, and then use a knife to scrape the skin.
6, the market now has a lot of specialized horseshoe peeling machine, not only easy to operate and very fast. As long as the washed water chestnuts into the peeling machine, water chestnuts will be automatically peeled from the other side out.
How long to cook water chestnuts
We all know that water chestnuts can be eaten raw, however, there are some areas where people prefer to cook them. It seems to prove that cooking are not cooked, also seems not to need to cook, people on cooking water chestnut specific steps and time as follows:
1, first of all, the water chestnut will be washed with water, because the water chestnut is a native plant, its roots and whiskers part of the Department of the place is easy to grow with parasites and bacteria. First, the knife will be water chestnut a cut into two (vertical direction), and then use the knife along the semicircular direction of the roots and whiskers are scraped off, especially some of the dirt hidden in the concave, to use the tip of the knife a little bit of a pick clean, and then cleaned with water, so as to ensure that water chestnut hygiene, soup clear and less impurities. The reason why to keep the water chestnut skin on the part of the clean purple-black skin, because it contains phosphorus and other trace elements, and can make the soup to increase the light purple-red pigment, so that people increase appetite.
2, the amount of water to cook water chestnuts no regulations, of course, more water chestnuts less soup flavor is heavy, and vice versa is light. First boil on high heat, then stew on low heat for about ten minutes, do not rush to drink, let the water chestnuts in the pot "stuffy" for an hour, so that the soup quality is more "thick".
3, in order to adjust the taste, according to my preference to add rock sugar or sugar; can also be based on personal health, appropriate to add other herbs, such as wolfberry (clear liver and eyesight). I cook water chestnut soup, put a small amount of rock sugar and wolfberry, taste is very good.
Can you eat water chestnuts raw? What is the nutrition
Water chestnuts are cold, can help clear heat and phlegm, and if you eat them before meals, they can be appetizing and help increase appetite, and if someone is intoxicated, water chestnuts also have the effect of sobering up, so it's okay to eat them whether they are eaten raw or as a dish. Compared with other foods, water chestnut has the highest content of phosphorus, which mainly helps normalize the development of teeth and bones and maintains good physiological functions. Secondly, water chestnut is very suitable for diabetic patients to eat, can help the diuretic, eliminate excessive urination, so it can also treat urinary tract infections.
How to cook water chestnuts is delicious and nutritious
First of all, we have to prepare the right amount of sugar cane and water chestnuts, water chestnuts will be washed and cleaned after digging out the small tip, and then put the two materials together inside the pot, with a large fire to boil, will come up to the froth and fish clean, and then turn to a small fire, simmering to the fully cooked can be, the sugar cane itself has a sugar, so in itself and out of the time is no need to carry out the sugar, the sugar water itself is also clear, the sugar water is also clear. The sugar water itself is also sweet, water chestnut is also known as the horseshoe lotus, taste sweet and slightly cold, is a very good natural Chinese medicine, can eliminate food, clear heat, appetizer, but it is a cold food.
I warmly suggest that water chestnut as a fruit and vegetable double identity, it has the sweetness of the fruit, but also can be a dish to supplement the human body nutrients. He also has another name - ground chestnut, and chestnut appearance, taste, efficacy is similar. If you do not have a strong appetite or drunkenness, you may want to consider the water chestnut, there may be an unexpected effect ~