After the arrival of summer, beans are on the market in large quantities and become very cheap, especially cowpeas, which are fresh, tender and crisp. Now it's almost one or two yuan a catty, which is several times cheaper than in winter and tastes better. So when you buy food, you might as well buy more cowpeas to cook, which is delicious and nutritious. Cowpea can be fried and eaten. Stir-fried dishes or fried meat are delicious. It can also be made into Huimian Noodles, steamed cowpea and cold cowpea. It can also be made into sour cowpea, which tastes sour and crisp. In addition to these methods, cowpea can also be sun-dried into Jiangdou Gan. Take out Jiangdou Gan and cook it in winter.
Dried beancurd is a delicious food, which can be cooked after soaking soft. They have a unique fragrance and taste, which is very different from fresh cowpeas. They taste very special and many people like to eat them. There are some in the supermarket. You can buy them if you want, but it's time for cowpeas to go on the market. Why not make some dried beancurd yourself? Much more cost-effective than buying. If you cook too much at a time, you can eat it all year.
When it comes to making dried beancurd, some people do it directly, while others blanch it before doing it. Do you need to blanch them?
I have tried both methods. I can just put them in the sun to dry the beans and keep the color green. However, this method takes a long time to dehydrate beans, and after drying, the storage time is short, which is easy to go bad, and the taste of cooking with them is not very good.
Blanched first and then dried, or dried beans, the colors have changed, there is no green, and some are black. But this method is very time-saving, it can be completely dried in almost one day or even half a day, and it can be preserved for a long time. If it is well preserved, it can be preserved for one year, and cooking with it is fragrant and delicious.
After comparison, dry beans should be blanched, and no mistakes should be made in the future.
Do you need to blanch the dried beans? Don't make a mistake, share the detailed method and keep it for a long time! Let me share with you how to make dried beancurd. Remember to do it when you have time, and follow the steps to ensure a success. Come and have a look.
The steps of making dried beans:
Prepare fresh cowpeas. I am a little particular about the preparation of ingredients. You can't use old cowpea. If you use old cowpea, the taste of Jiangdou Gan will be very bad. You must use fresh and crisp ones. You can't use insects or damaged ones, which will affect the taste. Also, if you buy cowpeas in the supermarket, don't buy frostbitten ones.
Wash the fresh crispy cowpea with clear water and remove both ends by the way.
Boil the water in the pot, add a spoonful of salt and put the cowpea in the pot. If there are too many cowpeas, remember to bake them several times and don't crowd together, otherwise the cowpeas will be unevenly heated, which will affect the taste and make the operation inconvenient.
After the cowpea is put in, continue to cook with high fire until the cowpea changes color, take it out and put it in a cold water basin immediately to cool the cowpea quickly.
Cowpea has been treated and hung on a clothes rack or bamboo pole. In short, it is hung in an open place to be exposed to the sun.
It was sunny all day, neither cloudy nor rainy, and the cowpea soon dried up.
However, in order to preserve it for a long time, it is recommended to take it back at night and expose it to the outside during the day, so that the dried beans are particularly dry to avoid resurgence.
Finally, put the dried bean curd into a fresh-keeping bag, tie the bag tightly and put it in a cool and dry place, not in a hot and humid place. Usually, if you have time, you will take out the dried beans from time to time to bask in the sun for a long time, so as not to be afraid that the beans will be moldy and broken.
Take some out if you want to eat, and then soak it in water until it is soft. Remember to soak it before cooking. If this step is not done well, the dried bean curd will be difficult to chew and affect the taste.
Have you learned to cook dried beans? If you have time to cook some, you can cook more if you feel good and save it for winter stew. So much for sharing. If you like me, please pay attention to me.