Most of the chicken's head rice is listed in late autumn. Usually only dried chicken head rice is as delicious as fresh chicken head rice, and it tastes good when it is soup. Chicken head rice with osmanthus and red dates is a common home-cooked sweet soup that Suzhou people often make. Chicken head rice is hidden at the bottom of the bowl and moistened with sweet water cooked with rock sugar. Osmanthus fragrans floats on the water, full of autumn colors and elegant fragrance. Jujube swimming in it is not only eye-catching, but also delicious. The rock sugar is sweet and moist, filling the mouth, the head of the chicken is soft and waxy, wrapping the tongue, gently pressing and slowly grinding on the white teeth on the cheeks, and the fragrance spreads from the tooth slot on the tip of the tongue to the throat, which can be described as sweet and dripping, fragrant and overflowing, sweet and moist throat, fascinating.

Euryale ferox is the only plant of Euryale in Nymphaeaceae. Its flowers and fruits are shaped like chicken heads, also known as chicken head rice, chicken head lotus and chicken head lotus. Plants have thorns, also known as thorn lotus root and fake lotus root. The leaves are huge, and they are laid flat on the water in a disc shape, which is extremely spectacular and is a rare flower in waterscape gardens. The Latin name ferox means "spiny", which means that its plant surface has thorns.

Morphological characteristics: Euryale ferox is a perennial aquatic herb with floating leaves, large plants and thorns. There are white fibrous roots and the rhizome is not obvious. There are two kinds of leaves: submerged leaves and floating leaves. Primary leaves are small, submerged, arrow-shaped or oval, with cracks and no thorns at the lower part. After that, the floating leaves are round, shield-shaped, non-cracking, more than 2 meters in diameter, long petiole, and hollow and prickly. The leaves are shriveled, the back is purplish red, the veins are obviously raised, and the veins on both sides have thorns. Whether the flower sticks out of the water or not, the sepals are 4, densely spiny, with many petals, purple, shorter than the calyx; There are many stamens, and the outer stamens gradually become petaloid; Ovary ovoid, without style, red stigma, 10, radial. Berries are spherical, with a diameter of about 10 cm and dense thorns. There are many kinds of seeds. The flowering period is July-August, and the fruiting period is 8-65438+1October.

Sexual taste

Sweet, flat, astringent and nontoxic. Enter spleen and kidney meridians.

raw material

Euryale ferox mainly contains starch, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, thiamine, nicotinic acid and ascorbic acid. Every 100g contains protein 4.4g, fat 2.2g, carbohydrate 32g, crude fiber 0.4g, ash 0.5g, calcium 9mg, phosphorus10mg, iron 0.4mg, thiamine 0.4mg, riboflavin 0.08mg, nicotinic acid 2.5mg and vitamin C 6mg.

efficacy

Tonify kidney, replenish essence, strengthen spleen, stop diarrhea, eliminate dampness and stop leukorrhagia. Buzhong is a nourishing and strong food, which is somewhat similar to lotus seeds, but Gordon Euryale has stronger astringent and sedative effects than lotus seeds, and is suitable for chronic diarrhea, frequent urination, nocturnal emission in wet dream and women's backache.

The head of a chicken grows in Taihu Lake. In the flowering season, the leaves are drilled out one by one, exposing the water and producing purple flowers.

Mature chicken head rice really looks like a chicken head, and the shell is full of hard thorns, which can't be peeled off without tools. Peel off the shell covered with hard thorns, make it by hand, and after drying, it is the authentic Su Mi. Pure natural fruit, rich in nutrition, is hand-dialed, which is very hard.

How to peel chicken head rice quickly?

There are special finger covers on the market, which are very convenient.

Put it on your finger, draw it on the shell with the sharp side, and the shell will open, and the fruit of the chicken head rice will naturally fall out. Of course, if you can't buy it, you can use nails instead. But after peeling for a period of time, the nails will become soft, so it is not suitable to use this method for a long time.

How to peel dried chicken head rice?

Dried chicken head rice has been soaked, which is basically the same as fresh chicken head rice. Remove the fruit and seed coat and take its kernel. Spread the fruit on the threshing floor, beat it with a wooden pestle or even a wooden pestle to break the shell, then put it in a basket and step on it with your feet to make the film outside the seeds fall off, break the seeds, rinse them with water and dry them. Or, first pile the harvested fruits into a pile and cover them with grass. After about 65,438+00 days, the shell and seed coat can be heated and rotted. At this time, the pile is opened and the seeds are collected, washed and dried. After drying in the sun, the seeds with different sizes are divided into 2 ~ 3 grades, and the hard shell of the seed coat is removed by grinding or stone grinding. When grinding, the grinding center should be raised to avoid grinding seeds. You can also fry with fire, and then grind off the hard shell with a stone mill. After grinding, use a fan or dustpan to remove the shell and impurities, or pour it into water to remove the floating shell, and then pick up the pure seeds and dry them in the sun, that is, Gordon Euryale rice. The basic yield of rice is 62% ~ 66%, and Gordon Euryale is not graded. Those with full and uniform particles, full powder, no broken powder, no impurities, no hard shell and no mildew and deterioration are qualified finished products.

How to shell chicken head rice? An easier way.

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