Steps/Methods

Water chestnuts can be eaten raw or cooked, if you want to cook and eat, about 10-20 minutes can be, with a pressure cooker about five minutes is enough. Steaming will take longer, at least half an hour or more.

Boiled water chestnut eating method:

1, with a small brush will water chestnut skin brush clean, put into the cooking pot (avoid using iron pot), pour 4-5 times the water.

2, put the cooking pot on the fire, high heat boil, turn the heat to slow cook water chestnuts in the pot.

3, until the water chestnuts are cooked through. When the last pot of water is almost dry, open the lid, hand Chao cooking pot, let the water chestnuts slowly juice, so that the water chestnuts dry water is especially sweet, especially delicious (note oh, this is to make boiled water chestnuts taste good a big secret).

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

5, dry the outer skin after washing the cooked water chestnuts, eat when peeled.

6, cooked water chestnuts, placed in a ventilated place, after drying, only delicious, not sticky.

Tips

1, water chestnuts should choose a large, dark purple skin, buds short thick, 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 the juice after the water chestnut skin with sugary substances adhering to, must be washed with cool boiled water, before it is appropriate to hand grasp.

5, water chestnut can be used as both fruit and vegetable, small cold season is the sweetest period of water chestnut, spring water chestnut is considered late harvest, but good quality water chestnut is still sweet and crisp. 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. The raw water chestnut is crisp and juicy, and the boiled water chestnut is sweet and warm, but the water chestnut is cold, so it is not suitable to eat more water chestnuts, no matter it is raw or cooked.