The easiest way to peel water chestnuts is to peel them after cooking and then peel them fresh.

1. Peel them after cooking

After washing and cooking the water chestnuts, put them in light salt water and soak them for 3 to 4 hours. After soaking, wash them with clean water. , then gently pinch it with your hands, and its outer skin and inner pulp will be produced naturally, and the pulp can be eaten directly.

2. Peel them while they are fresh

When buying water chestnuts, choose ones with shorter buds. Such water chestnuts are sweeter and easier to peel. If the water chestnuts you choose have only a flat top, Wash the water chestnuts and cut off the top and bottom parts with a knife. The remaining middle part only needs to be peeled off gently with a paring knife. To peel raw water chestnuts, peel them when they are fresh. Wait until they are no longer fresh and have no moisture. Peeling is not easy.

Selection of horseshoes:

Generally, the color of the outer skin of horseshoes is lavender red or purple-black. It is recommended to choose darker horseshoes for better quality. Usually, the meat of darker horseshoes will be softer. It is thicker and tastes better. Horse hooves with fresh or abnormally bright red skin are mostly considered to have been soaked, so it is not recommended to choose.

In addition, you can also cut it open to check the color of the pulp. Fresh water chestnut meat is white and juicy, while poor quality water chestnut meat will be partially yellow in color and should not be selected.