The bird's nest, as its name implies, is the nest of swallows. However, this is not an ordinary swallow's nest, but a special swallow's nest, Jin Siyan.
Jin Siyan is a bird, swift family. It is a migratory bird, which flies from Siberia and other places to natural caves along the tropical coast every year from 65438+February to March of the following year to breed. Jin Siyan is smaller than the swallows we usually see. Its back feathers are grayish brown with golden luster, its wings are pointed and long, and its four toes grow forward. This swallow has well-developed mucus glands in its throat, and the saliva it secretes can solidify into solids in the air, which is the main substance for their nesting. Jin Siyan lays eggs in March and April every year. Before laying eggs, they fly on the sea and high altitude every day, sometimes for several kilometers, breaking through the clouds, sucking rain and dew, eating insects, algae, whitebait and other things. After digestion, drill into steep, shady, high-altitude cliff cracks and deep holes, spit and nest. It will take about 20 days to build.
The bird's nest is half-moon-shaped, resembling a human ear, with a diameter of 6-7 cm, a thick base and a thin profile wall, and weighs about10-15g. The nest has neat periphery and rough interior, like a loofah net. The whole bird's nest is white, glittering and translucent, elastic and attached to the rocky cliffs. Known as "precious medicinal materials" and "oriental treasures".
Cooking method
The best way to cook bird's nest is to stew it on water with slow fire, but it is also important to prepare it in advance. Cleaning bird's nest, mainly soaking. The water that has just been soaked for 1-2 hours should be poured out, and impurities such as Pteris multifida should be cleaned during this period; Then soak in clear water for 1-2 hours. At this time, it is necessary to control the amount of water soaked, generally to reach the surface of bird's nest. Finally, even the soaked water is stewed with slow fire to keep the original flavor and nutrition of bird's nest. When bird's nest is badly needed, it can also be soaked in warm water for 30-40 minutes, but this quick method is not suitable for blood swallow. The stewing time is determined by two factors. First, it depends on the quality of bird's nest itself, the thickness and humidity of bird's nest. It usually takes 6-8 hours. If it's a blood swallow, it takes twice as long. Second, it depends on people's physique. In order to facilitate absorption, the elderly, patients and other people with weak constitution spend more time stewing bird's nest than the conventional 1 hour, that is, 7-9 hours. The best time is when the finished product is soft, smooth, elastic, glittering and translucent, and soft and continuous when clamped. There are ways to eat.
Although there is only one cooking method for bird's nest, it is tasteless and can be eaten in various ways. Master Chen introduced several methods of stewed bird's nest in home cooking: ★ stewed bird's nest with papaya.
After the original papaya is cut in half, the capsule is removed and stewed with bird's nest and the water soaked in bird's nest, so that the taste of papaya can penetrate into bird's nest and be eaten with rock sugar water. ★ Dry fishing for blood swallows
Cook a pot of rich gravy soup in advance, then add bird's nest and cook together, stir evenly with slow fire, and scoop up the gravy when it is about to boil and eat it immediately. Broth is preferably chicken wing soup, or soup made of old hen, ribs and other meat. ★ Braised swallows in brown sauce
You also need a pot of rich abalone sauce, preferably until it is gelatinous (it can be accelerated by pressure cooker), and you can eat it with bird's nest, which is greasy. ★ Juice old bird's nest
As long as you squeeze your favorite vegetable juice and juice with a juicer in advance, or mix and stew bird's nest with dairy products as seasoning, you can eat it. This is the simplest way to eat bird's nest and one of the best ways to eat it in summer. Clever bird's nest juice
As mentioned above, seasoning with fruit and vegetable juice and milk juice is the "highlight" of eating bird's nest in summer. Fruit and vegetable juice is easy to get, but I still eat something, but I don't eat anything. Master Chen listed the juices that can be used to make bird's nest: Hami melon juice, watermelon juice, orange juice, coconut juice, preserved plum juice, jujube juice, tomato juice, ginger juice, celery juice, carrot juice, chinese cabbage juice, apricot juice, ginkgo juice, tangerine peel juice, milk, yogurt and so on. Generally, sugar or honey should be added to fruit juice to enhance sweetness. Have you found that fruit juice is still the most common fruit and vegetable juice? Master Chen explained that there are many fruits and vegetables for making bird's nest juice, most of which are sweet or tasteless, because fruits and vegetables with fishy smell, spicy taste or great influence on the taste will soften the bird's nest water and lose its soft and smooth taste. Fruit and vegetable juice is best seasoned with a single fruit, while milk juice is the opposite. Several kinds of milk are often mixed to increase the taste of milk, and it is best to use pure milk, three-flower weak milk, AD calcium yogurt and so on. Bird's Nest is not unique to China. As long as the nutrients are not in conflict, it can be eaten with western food or mixed with jelly. It is hot in summer, and many people like to put bird's nest in the refrigerator and eat it after freezing. But it should be noted that it is not convenient and fast. Soak the bird's nest in cold water or put it in the refrigerator immediately after stewing, which will not only affect the appearance of bird's nest, but also soften its taste. So be sure to cool naturally. Stewed bird's nest with crystal sugar Qiyuan
Ingredients: 3 grams of bird's nest, 6 grams of medlar, 6 grams of longan meat and 30 grams of rock sugar.
working methods
(1) Soak the bird's nest in water, remove the feathers with tweezers and tear it into strips.
(2) Wash the medlar and longan.
(3) Pour the bird's nest, bonzi, longan pulp and L bowl of boiling water into the stew pot, cover the stew pot and stew it in water.
(4) After the water in the pot is boiled, stew it with medium fire 1 hour, and then simmer it with low fire 1 hour after adding crystal sugar.
(5) Take it out after stewing and take it after warming.
Efficacy: nourishing blood and nourishing face, moistening lung and relieving cough.
Indications: palpitation and insomnia, dizzy.
To annotate ...
Lycium barbarum contains betaine, carotene and a variety of unsaturated fatty acids, which can replenish blood, nourish yin and improve eyesight. Longan meat contains tartaric acid, adenine choline and various vitamins, which can replenish blood, soothe the nerves and moisten the five internal organs; Rock candy contains a lot of sugar and a variety of trace elements, which can tonify the middle warmer, nourish the stomach and moisten the lungs. Patients with lung and stomach deficiency and cold diarrhea should not take it; Damp heat should not be used more; Disabled for diabetics. Stewed bird's nest with bletilla striata
Basic materials: Bletilla striata 6-9g, bird's nest 6-9g, and appropriate amount of clear water.
Stewed bird's nest with bletilla striata is a nourishing product, which has the effects of nourishing lung and yin, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. People often use it to treat tuberculosis, hemoptysis, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma in the elderly and other diseases.
Food efficacy
Bletilla striata is the tuber of Bletilla striata in Orchidaceae. It tastes bitter and cold, and enters the lung meridian. Contains starch, glucose, volatile oil, mucus, mannan, etc. It has the function of tonifying lung and stopping bleeding, and is often used to treat hemoptysis caused by lung diseases. Gao Li, a famous doctor in Jin Dynasty, said it could "stop lung blood". Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan records that "treating tuberculosis hurts lung qi, tonifying lung deficiency, relieving cough, clearing tuberculosis and coughing up blood, and astringing lung qi". Modern pharmacological studies have proved that Bletilla striata has hemostatic effect, but its inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis is weak.
Bird's Nest is a nest built by Jin Siyan, an animal of Swift family, and many swallows of the same genus with saliva or saliva mixed fluff. Sweet and flat in nature. Enter the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. It contains protein, sugar, various amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur. Function: nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting qi and tonifying middle energizer. It is often used to treat consumption, cough, expectoration and asthma, hemoptysis and vomiting blood.
Components and usage
Use 6-9g of Bletilla striata and 6-9g of bird's nest each time. Add appropriate amount of water to the earthen pot, stew it in water until it is extremely rotten, filter to remove residue, add appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste, and stew for a while. Take 1 2 times a day. Stewed bird's nest with coconut milk
Ingredients: one or two bird's nests, three spoonfuls of fresh coconut milk, fresh milk or light milk, and a little rock sugar.
Method: Soak and wash the bird's nest, put it in a stew pot with other ingredients, stew for about 40 minutes, add rock sugar, and stew for 5 minutes before eating.
Sending bird's nest is a science. The variety of bird's nest, chef, seasonal humidity, room temperature and water temperature, and even the difference between morning and evening, the soaked bird's nest will be very different. The following are some methods: First, alkaline hair (old hair, not recommended). Soak the bird's nest in hot water, rinse it with clear water for two or three times (pay attention to keep the shape neat), and then soak it in cold water; Pour off the water before use, and mix the bird's nest with the alkaline noodles. Generally, 50g of bird's nest is made of alkaline flour1.5g (if the bird's nest is old, 2.5g can be used), and boiled water is added for extraction; The bird's nest rises, half of the alkaline water is poured, and then it is extracted with boiling water for three or four times until it swells to three times the original product, and it feels soft and astringent, and it will break when pinched; Then rinse the alkaline surface and soak it in cold water for later use. Absorb the water with a dry cloth before cooking. Second, evaporation. Also known as upper cage and steamer. It is a means of preliminary cooking treatment of cooking materials, not as a method of cooking dishes. Steam the clean materials after preliminary processing to the degree of undercooked, semi-cooked or just cooked to reduce the cooking time. First, soak the bird's nest in water at 50℃, then soak it in water at 70℃ until it swells, take it out to protect it from being broken, rinse it twice in water, blanch it in water at 80℃, wash it, put it in a bowl, and steam it to be soft with low fire. Third, bubble hair. Also called dipping. Using water as an auxiliary solvent for hair, the dry material is soaked until it is swollen, soft and smooth for formal cooking. Dry raw materials can recover their original tender, smooth and soft state to the maximum extent after absorbing water again. According to the water temperature, the water supply can be divided into 1. Cold water supply (or warm water supply). Also known as soaking and bleaching. The water temperature is generally around 40℃, with normal temperature in summer and warm water in winter. Soak the bird's nest in cold water for two hours to remove feathers and impurities, then put it in a boiling water pot, cover it and soak for about 30 minutes. If it is not soft, you can soak it in boiling water for another 30 minutes. Because there is still a simmering process in the cooking process, it is not allowed to do enough hair to avoid losing the strip and soft taste. When applicable, take it out and soak it in cold water for use. Before use, put it in a boiling water pot and cook for about 2 minutes before cooking. This method is suitable for soup dishes. 2. Hot water (recommended for emergency use). Also known as soaking hair, boiling hair and stewing hair. The dried bird's nest material is soaked in hot water, and the seepage velocity of water molecules is increased by heating, so that the dried bird's nest material is fully expanded, thus achieving the effect that it is difficult to increase water consumption at room temperature. When making bird's nest, we should adjust the water temperature and the time of making bird's nest according to the season and the tenderness of bird's nest. It should be checked and adjusted frequently to prevent the hair from leaving a hard core or causing dissolution. The prepared bird's nest should be soaked in cold water for use, but it should not be stored for a long time and should be used as soon as possible. The water and tools for moistening the bird's nest should be clean, and oil should not be stained, otherwise it will affect the hair quality.
I wonder what kind of bird's nest you have? The soaking time and stewing time of different grades of bird's nest are different, such as:
1, Dragon Tooth Lamp, Dragon Tooth Crushed-Soak 1~2 hours-stew 15~20 minutes
2. White swallow lamp, crushed in Bai Yan-soak for 3-5 hours-stew15-20 minutes.
3. Soak yellow and broken yellow for 5~ 10 hour and stew for 20~30 minutes.
4, blood swallow cup, blood swallow tablets-soak for 5~ 10 hour-stew for 20~30 minutes.
5. Various swallows' horns-soaking 12 hours-1. 5 hours
I ate minced Yan, usually soaked for 4 hours, simmered for 40 minutes (not too big), and then added rock sugar and milk in the last 10 minutes. The seller said that in addition to Yanjiao, it is not necessary to stew for too long, and sometimes lotus seeds can be added, so red dates feel very moist.
You can eat it as soon as you are pregnant. If I throw up badly in the first three months, I will wait until there is no response. I always soak for 3-4 hours first, and then stew in the pot with rock sugar 1 hour or so. You can also add red dates. As for how often to eat, it depends on personal economic conditions. If the economy permits, of course, it is best to eat once every 2-3 days, usually once every 1 week, but eating once in a while will not have much effect. Eating it is not only good for children's skin, but also good for adults. It is also good for children's lungs. Many people buy them for their children because they have a bad cough.
I have to get ready for dinner, too. I'll stew more at a time and put it in the refrigerator. During menstruation, I heard that it is better to eat one or two in the morning and evening.
I started eating in three months. Let's soak the bird's nest all night. You can do it for three or four days at a time. Put it in the refrigerator. Put it in the microwave when you want to eat, but not too hot. Make it warm. I have been eating raw food since three months ago. It's much cheaper to have someone bring it from Hong Kong. We're robbing money here.
Eat once a week from 2 months, and the baby's skin is really white. I heard that it would be better to eat baby bird's nest.
Continue to eat after 3 months, children and adults can make up, and children will be very cute.
I started eating when I was 4-5 months old. I usually soak for 2-3 hours, stew in a saucepan for about 45 minutes, and eat a few spoonfuls on an empty stomach in the morning. I started eating one cup a week, and now I eat two cups a week.
Here are some recipes for pregnant women's bird's nest:
First, milk bird's nest porridge. This porridge is rich in calcium and is a good source of calcium for pregnant women. Only the firstborn Papilio is selected, which is complete and full, dense in texture and crystal clear in color. It is the ultimate enjoyment of the new beginning of high-quality living art before pregnancy.
Raw materials:
0/00g of rice/kloc-,500g of milk, 300g of water, and a special white lantern for Bird's Nest.
Making:
1, pick out the rice and wash it. Soak in the white swallow for 4-8 hours.
2. Set the pot on fire, add rice and water, bring it to a boil over high fire, and simmer for about 30 minutes. After the rice grains swell, pour in milk and stir well, put in Bai Yan, and continue to cook for 20-30 minutes on low heat until the rice grains are sticky and overflow with milk flavor.
3. When eating, you can eat it directly or add sugar or salt to become milk porridge with different tastes.