Water chestnut is also called horseshoe, in the spring is the time to eat water chestnut. Not only can they be peeled and eaten raw, they can also be peeled and cooked.

1. When eaten raw, water chestnuts are as crisp as pears and as sweet as chestnuts. People in many places eat it directly as a fruit. Peeled horseshoes body round and snow white, throw a horseshoe into the mouth, click, mouth full of overflowing juice. Good water chestnut meat is tender, no slag after chewing, after eating a belly, the pharynx feels rinsed generally refreshing and moist. Water chestnuts are suitable for eating raw, because after cooking water chestnuts, it is easy to cause the loss of nutrients, when eating raw, be sure to thoroughly remove the bud eyes and outer skin.

2, juice

Water chestnut and pear juice: take 100 grams of water chestnuts and 100 grams of pear, water chestnuts peeled, washed, and then cut into pieces; pear peeled, core, cut into small pieces, and then the two together into the juicer, add the right amount of water, stirred into a thin paste can be.

3, cooking

Ingredients: water chestnut 300g, water. Practice: Use a small brush to clean the skin of water chestnut, put it into the cooking pot (avoid using iron pot), pour 4-5 times the water. Set the pot on the fire, boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and slowly cook the water chestnuts in the pot until the water chestnuts are cooked through. When the water in the pot finally dries up, open the lid and shake the pot with your hand to slowly juice the water chestnuts, so that the water chestnuts are especially sweet. When the water chestnuts are cooled down, put them into cool boiling water to wash away the sugar stickies on the outer skin, and drain them to eat.

4, soup

Materials: water chestnuts, silver fungus, red dates, rock sugar. Practice: soak the silver fungus for 1 hour, hair open after cleaning, remove the yellow tip, picked into small; water chestnut clean, peeled, cut into small pieces, red dates, wash and spare; will be silver fungus crushed, water chestnut small pieces of red dates and rock sugar together into the pressure cooker, add the right amount of water, steam on the fire, turn the fire to the pressure 20 minutes can be.