1. After buying fresh Hericium erinaceus, you can cut off all the roots of the fresh Hericium erinaceus with clean scissors and clean up that part, because this part is the root of the bitterness of Hericium erinaceus, and the bitterness of Hericium erinaceus will disappear after removal.

2. When buying fresh Hericium erinaceus, try to buy those Hericium erinaceus with white or light yellow appearance. Fresh Hericium erinaceus with red fruiting body is particularly bitter. No matter what you do, you can't get rid of the bitterness, and it won't taste too good after cooking.

How to remove bitter taste from fresh Hericium erinaceus

1, soaked in water

Repeated soaking of fresh Hericium erinaceus in clear water can remove its bitter taste, but it is necessary to change water several times during the soaking process, and when changing water, Hericium erinaceus should be taken out of the water, squeezed by hand to squeeze out all the water in Hericium erinaceus, and then soaked again with clear water. Only in this way can the bitterness be completely removed.

2, soda water cleaning

Soda water diluted with baking soda can also obviously remove the bitterness of Hericium erinaceus. Wash the fresh Hericium erinaceus with clear water, soak it in soda water for half an hour, then take it out and rinse it with clear water. The fresh Hericium erinaceus treated in this way has almost no bitterness.

Step 3 cook slowly with a small fire

Wash the fresh Hericium erinaceus, tear it into pieces, put it into a pot, add a proper amount of water, cook it slowly with low fire until it boils, then cook it for about 10 minute, then cook it with high fire for 2-3 minutes, then remove it with cold water, then remove all the water in Hericium erinaceus and rinse it with clear water again. At this time, the bitterness of Hericium erinaceus will completely disappear.