One, eat raw
For people who can tolerate the taste of fresh lotus seeds, you can directly peel off the skin of the lotus seeds and eat, so that the taste is bitter, but rich in nutrients, and the maximum degree of retention of the nutrients of the fresh lotus seeds, the body is the most beneficial, consumption is also very convenient to save the time and steps to deal with.
Two, cooking soup
Lotus water duck soup
Raw materials: water duck half, 100 grams of fresh lotus, 50 grams of jujubes, 5 grams of salt, 5 grams of shoyu, ginger 1 big piece, 2 onion knots, a little white pepper, a little cooking oil.
Practice: water duck washed and chopped into large pieces, into the frying pan fried until the oil under the pat broken ginger and shoyu, continue to stir-fry until the wine flavor out, pour the right amount of water to cook into a milky white soup. Down into the onion knot stewed over low heat for about 1 hour, if you feel too much oil can be skimmed out of the duck oil, reserved for fried vegetables and other very fragrant. Fresh lotus seeds peeled and remove the lotus seed core, and red dates together in the pot on high heat, low heat stew for about 30 minutes with salt and white pepper can be.
Pin. Chinese medicine believes that the lotus seed taste sweet, astringent, flat, with sedative tranquility, replenish the gas, nourish the heart and kidneys, strengthen the spleen and stomach, clearing the internal organs to run the dirty, bright eyes and ears, astringent intestines to stop diarrhea effect, can be used for the post-sickness or post-partum weakness of the spleen and stomach, loose stools, palpitations, palpitations and anxiety, upset, insomnia, dreaming, less gas and fatigue, loss of appetite, as well as women's blood deficiency lumbar acidity, leucorrhea, menopausal syndrome, and heart disease, high blood pressure, The main reason for this is that it is a good way to get the most out of your life.
Fresh lotus seeds have the effect of tonifying the spleen and kidney, nourishing the heart and calming the mind, but also converge the restless heart fire, so that people can be quiet and easy to sleep, is regarded as a nourishing the essence of the treasures.
How to eat fresh lotus seeds? You can eat lotus seeds directly raw, remove the outer skin and core of the lotus seeds, leaving only the pulp inside, cleaned, put in clean water to soak for about 20 minutes, it will become Microsoft, can be used. Another common practice is lotus seed porridge, that is, 50 grams of lotus seeds and 100 grams of round-grained or glutinous rice, into the pot with cooking, to the lotus seed is very rotten on the good. Or it will be made into pastries, such as lotus seed Poria cake, the first lotus seed meat, Poria research into powder, add sugar, cinnamon after the right amount of mixing, with water and noodles, on the cage steamed into cakes can be.