Spring bamboo shoots can be preserved with yellow sand, plastic bags, and soaked in salt water.

1, with yellow sand preservation

Choose to use yellow sand to save the spring bamboo shoots, then, is a very simple method, but also very effective, can ensure the freshness of the spring bamboo shoots, but the operation of this method is a certain requirement, first of all, we need to find a box, preferably wooden box, and then at the bottom of the bottom to put some yellow color, and then put the fresh spring bamboo shoots in it, preferably placed with the tips facing up.

After placing it, then cover it with yellow sand. Be sure to cover it thoroughly. If you preserve the spring bamboo shoots in this way, you can keep them for about a month without any problem and they will not deteriorate.

2, preserved in a plastic bag

Choose to use a plastic bag to save the spring bamboo shoots is also reliable, first of all the spring bamboo shoots picked back, roughly cleaned up a bit, and then put into a plastic bag, the plastic bag is best to buy the kind of special plastic bag, you can bunch of the kind of mouth, if there is no bunch of the kind of mouth then, then it must be it! Tie it well by yourself.

With this method can be saved, half a month or so is no problem, basically to ensure its freshness, but must be sealed, if the run air into the words, then it will still happen to deteriorate, so in this way to save, pay attention to the mouth to seal well.

3, soaked in salt water preservation

Choose to soak the spring bamboo shoots with salt water, it is also able to ensure a certain degree of freshness, this method is also a very recommended way of preservation, first of all, we should prepare a plate of water, and then put some salt inside, stirred evenly, the spring bamboo shoots washed and put into the soaking.

Through this method to store the spring bamboo shoots, usually about two months is no problem, but the premise is that the salt water must be kept clean, every one or two days to replace.

Spring bamboo shoots selection skills

1, bamboo joints, small spacing

Bamboo shoots are the shoots of bamboo, which is a scaled-down version of the bamboo, there are also bamboo joints. Bamboo shoots that have a lot of nodes and a small spacing between each node are very high-quality, tender and crisp. Bamboo shoots with fewer nodes and larger spacing are older in flavor.

2, bamboo shoot flesh white

The color of the bamboo shoots that just came out of the ground is white, and then it starts to turn yellow, and finally turns green, and it grows into bamboo. Therefore, you should buy white bamboo shoots, which are tender and crispy, and the yellow ones are not as good, while the green ones are almost grown into bamboo, which are very fibrous and have a poor taste, like chewing straw.

3, the shape of the tip of the thick

Some bamboo shoots are just dug, have not peeled, can not see the inside of the bamboo shoots, you can observe its shape, the shape of the tip of the thick bamboo shoots bamboo shoots skin is relatively thin, inside the bamboo shoots more meat, tender, crisp, delicious flavor. Do not buy too long bamboo shoots, indicating that the fast-growing bamboo, more tender bamboo shoots is more than 20 centimeters, a span long.

4, shoots color white

Bamboo shoots above the tip of the shoots will grow a shoots, if the shoots color is white and tender, indicating that the spring bamboo shoots are more tender. And if the shoot turns green in color, it means that the bamboo shoots have begun to be fibrous and are about to turn into small bamboos, and the taste becomes worse.

5, the root is softer

The taste of bamboo shoots, from top to bottom, the thickest root is the oldest, if this part is more tender, then the bamboo shoots as a whole taste is certainly better. Use your fingernail to pinch the root, if it feels soft, it means the root is more tender, if it feels hard, it means the bamboo shoots are already old.