If it is more tender asparagus is not need to peel, if it is a little old asparagus must be peeled, edible asparagus will generally wait to grow to half of the outer skin of the bamboo shoots hard texture into the kitchen, so, fried asparagus before the general will be peeled.
Asparagus half of the skin, half of the more tender, tender half can be used directly, the hard texture of the half if the skin fried, the outer skin is not able to fry soft, eat up to molt, affecting the taste, but also affect the mood.
Tips: Even if the asparagus is more tender it is recommended to cut off some of the roots of the asparagus, because the roots of the asparagus are usually older, and easily contaminated by dirt. In addition, the head of the asparagus will have some extra tips, to use a knife to gently peel them off, this is a lot of people will ignore the small details, but peeled off after the asparagus can make the texture more perfect.
Methods of peeling asparagus
Method one
The method of tearing by hand is only suitable for asparagus that is already relatively old, the old skin of this kind of asparagus is already very tough, and a little bit of the old skin from the root can be directly torn off on the line, and in a few cases, you can tear off all the old skin, and the top of the tearing of the skin can not be removed, do not worry about the tender skin.
Method two
Asparagus is so thin, the general peeling knife is very difficult to start. The skin is too thick, the flesh is removed, it is a waste; too thin to go not clean; the force is too light too heavy can not, the requirements of the technique is very high.
Inside the general family, few will have a special knife to go to the asparagus skin; ordinary knife to go to the asparagus skin, the method is very important, can not put the asparagus with the knife in the hand, or a knife down bamboo shoots into two cuts, the best way is to put the bamboo shoots on the board, parallel line knife, it is best not to cut off the tender part of the skin after the peeling can be directly from the middle of the knife to the root of the line knife, the fingertips do not put in front of the knife to avoid scratches, the knife will not be able to cut the skin. The knife is not in front of your fingers, so as not to scratch them.
Method 3
First, hold the green asparagus with both hands in the left and right directions, and gently fold down the asparagus with both hands at the same time, so that the asparagus will naturally be broken at the intersection of the older and younger parts (note that the focus of this step is to gently fold).
Then put the green asparagus on the table or desktop, use a paring knife to gently pull down the asparagus from the head of the asparagus from the bottom of about 5cm, the green asparagus peeling down (because the asparagus is lying flat on the table, so peeling process to use your left hand to support the green asparagus so that the green asparagus will not move around, you can quickly peeling, hint: asparagus peeling flat than straight peeling faster, do not believe that you can try.
And then peeled green asparagus, bamboo shoots aligned, hold down to cut, you can cut into the length you want. Peeling and cutting green asparagus is so quick and easy.
Asparagus eating notes
1, fresh asparagus standards are: fresh, firm, with tight shoot tips and tender green parts, the shape of the whole plant straight, bamboo shoots buds dense, did not grow axillary buds, bright skin does not shrivel, tender and thick best.
2, the important components of asparagus are in the tip of the young shoots, frying and cooking should be more to save the tip. Cooking should be cooked with stainless steel pot.
3, people who are allergic to asparagus should not eat. Asparagus may also become an allergen, if it is allergic to asparagus, consumption of asparagus may cause skin redness, frequent diarrhea, indigestion, headache, sore throat, asthma and other allergic symptoms, so such people should also avoid eating asparagus.
4, gout, diabetes, uric acid metabolism abnormalities and spleen and stomach cold should not eat. Because the purine content in asparagus is relatively high, it will aggravate the uric acid metabolic disorder.