Cordyceps flowers, always let people and the valuable Chinese medicine Cordyceps sinensis associated with a piece, but the two are not related to each other.
Cordyceps flowers actually belong to a kind of fungus, and the common edible mushroom ingredients are very similar. It is only the strain, growing environment and growing conditions that are different. In order to distinguish it from Cordyceps, the business has come up with a beautiful name, calling it "Cordyceps Flower".
Cordyceps flowers, like mushrooms, have a high nutritional value, and are often eaten to improve immunity, especially for brain workers and sub-healthy people to eat, and are often used for soups and medicinal meals.
Today we are going to share this Cordyceps Flower Mushroom Soup, in addition to Cordyceps Flower, there are also bamboo fungus, tea tree mushrooms, black fungus and so on.
Bamboo fungus, also known as bamboo fungus and bamboo ginseng, is a kind of cryptogamic fungus parasitized on the roots of dead bamboo. In the past, we often see the word "mountain treasures" in books, bamboo fungus is one of the mountain treasures, which has been listed as one of the "eight treasures of grass" since ancient times.
Some people stewed bamboo fungus soup to drink, think there is a flavor of laundry detergent, good smell, that is because the stew soup before the bamboo fungus is not processed well.
Before stewing the soup, you need to soften the bamboo fungus in lightly salted water, and then cut off the head of the cap (the closed end of the tip), and the umbrella end of the bamboo fungus (the webbed part) I usually remove as well, because the biggest source of odor of the bamboo fungus comes from these two places.
The tea tree mushroom, originally a wild mushroom grown in the root and stem of the tea tree in the high mountain and dense forest area in Guangchang, Jiangxi Province, is a pure natural and pollution-free health care edible fungus that combines high protein, low fat, low sugar, and health care therapy in one.
The optimized and improved tea tree mushrooms are tender and brittle, pure and fragrant, with excellent taste, and can be cooked into a variety of delicious dishes, and their nutritional value exceeds that of other edible mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms. Our local common tea tree mushroom stew old duck soup drink, soup flavor fresh and delicious.
Tea tree mushrooms are commonly found fresh and dried in the market, and the dried ones are more flavorful. One thing that can be overlooked when selecting dried tea tree mushrooms is the consistency of the thickness and size of the mushrooms.
If the size of the mushrooms is not uniform, it means that the mushrooms are not from the same growing period, which means that they are mixed with aged mushrooms.
The ones with thick trunks and pale, white poles are not good, and it's better to choose the ones with a little brown color. Smell the mushrooms to see if they have a fresh scent, and don't buy mushrooms that smell musty.
Black fungus is usually the most commonly eaten mushroom ingredients, whether it is to do fried dishes or make coleslaw, will habitually use some of it, basically belongs to the more "versatile" ingredients, and soak rate is also relatively high, if it is a side dish, only need to soak a little bit can be.
Cordyceps Flower Mushroom Soup
Main ingredients: 200 grams of lean pork, 5 grams of Cordyceps Flower, 10 grams of Bamboo Fungus, 10 grams of Tea Tree Mushroom, 10 grams of Black Fungus, 10 dates
Seasoning: 6 grams of salt
Production Methods:
1, soak the black fungus in lukewarm water for about 2 hours, and allow the water to penetrate into the fungus slowly. After the fungus is softened, clean it and set it aside.
2, the pork with rice water clean, cut into small pieces, with water soak for an hour, in the middle of a few more water. On the one hand, the odor, on the other hand, can let the meat in the dirty things run out.
3, tea tree mushrooms soaked for about 30 minutes, cleaned. If there is any dirt in the root of the mushroom rod, deal with it.
4, Cordyceps flowers soak for about 15 minutes, clean the floating ash on it and set aside. Cordyceps flowers do not soak too long, will cause the loss of nutrients.
5, bamboo fungus soaked in lightly salted water for 10 minutes to soften, the net-like corolla parts cleaned off, bamboo fungus cap head cut off (must be disposed of, which is the source of the odor of bamboo fungus). Then clean it again, cut it into segments and set aside.
6, the cut pieces of lean meat into the casserole, add the right amount of water. It is best to add enough at once, do not add again halfway through the back. After boiling, use a spoon to skim off the froth, put the tea tree mushrooms in, wait for the water in the pot to boil again and then adjust the medium-low heat to simmer.
7, stew 30 minutes after uncovering, add cleaned red dates, bamboo fungus, Cordyceps flowers in turn, cover the casserole lid and continue to stew for 30 minutes.
8, 30 minutes later, open the lid, add edible salt, put the lid on, turn off the fire, with the residual temperature of the simmering for 10 minutes, you can will be dished out to eat.
Tips:
1, Cordyceps flowers, bamboo fungus, tea tree mushrooms, black fungus are dried, if the Cordyceps flowers, tea tree mushrooms for the fresh ingredients, later put.
2, mushrooms itself is the flavor of the ingredients, and lean meat with soup is very suitable, do not put MSG or chicken essence, only salt seasoning enough.
Booming back to the Cordyceps flower mushroom soup, the ingredients used do not need a lot, but the soup flavor is really fresh and delicious. And these ingredients have certain benefits to the body, the method of soup is also simple, every now and then on the boil, both to satisfy the appetite, but also to enhance the body's immunity, it is also a two-in-one!