Chen Pi is the dried mature fruit peel of Citrus reticulata Blanco and its cultivated varieties. The herb is divided into "Chenpi" and "Guang Chenpi". Mature fruits are picked, peeled and dried in the sun or at low temperature. Its production method is as follows:

1, the raw material needed to make Chenpi is orange peel. First of all, you need to buy some fresh oranges, when selecting, try to choose the thinner skin, softer oranges, this kind of orange made of orange peel flavor will be very good.

2, the orange with a little salt, and then one by one after scrubbing clean will be fished out of the orange in the water and then rinsed to remove the salt on the surface of the orange peel.

3, to be cleaned after the orange will be drained, and then peeled off the orange peel.

3, the peeled orange peel into the steamer, and then boil the water in the pot over high heat, the orange peel steamed; after the water boiled steam for about 10 minutes you can turn off the fire.

4, when the orange peels are cooked through, become more than soft and rotten when the orange peels carefully out of the steamer, spread in the sun for exposure.

5, after drying, the peel is finished. You can put the peel in a sealed bottle. Whether it is stewed meat or tea can be used directly.

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