Mushroom ingredients taste delicious, not meat but eat like meat, and nutritious, contains a variety of nutrients needed by the human body, of course, fresh is delicious, but in order to store the convenience of a lot of mushrooms are sun-dried, for this, soaking became the first step in cooking them, and today to say that the monkey mushrooms are also the same, dry monkey mushrooms are also to be sufficiently soaked in order to be used for cooking, many friends soak out a slightly bitter taste.

Here are some ways to soak them:

1. Steam the monkey head mushrooms in a cage with soup until there is no hard center. Then soak in water. In between, change the water a few times, every time you change the water, squeeze the monkey head mushroom to remove the water, and then into the water to soak, in order to better remove the bitter flavor.

2. Wash the monkey head mushrooms, add them to a pot of water and simmer over low heat for 1 hour, then add the stock or fat and continue cooking until the mushrooms are cooked through.

3, wash the monkey head mushrooms, soak in water for 30 minutes, and then put into a pot of boiling water, while adding the right amount of edible alkali, with a small fire and slowly cook until the monkey head mushrooms hair through, feel no hard heart, after the alkali flavor with water rinse clean can be. This will remove the bitter flavor.

4, the most common soaking method is to soak in water for two days, change the water four or five times, each time you change the water should be squeezed out of water and then put into clean water.

5, after removing the roots of the monkey head mushroom, wash the floating soil, and then soak in water for one night. Wash them repeatedly in warm water at about 40 degrees Celsius. Add chicken broth, ginger, green onion and yellow wine to the steamer and steam for 40 minutes.

There are two tips to share with you. The best way to soak and wash monkey head mushrooms is to use rice water, which can get rid of the astringent flavor of monkey head mushrooms, improve the flavor of monkey head mushrooms, and make the soaked monkey head mushrooms taste softer; keep the water temperature at about 30-40 degrees, which is more conducive to the full development of monkey head mushrooms. Never use boiling water to soak, the temperature of boiling water will make the nutrition of monkey head mushroom lost, and using boiling water to soak will make monkey head mushroom internal meat tendons, affecting the taste. Soaking the monkey head mushrooms in boiling water is easy to appear outside has been soaked inside but still hard lumps of state, the color is not bright.