Lotus root is rich in nutrition, containing carbohydrates, protein, crude fiber, carotene, iron, phosphorus, calcium, thiamine and other nutrients beneficial to human body, and has the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood, stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis, strengthening spleen and stimulating appetite.
Lotus root can be eaten in many ways. I usually prefer to make sweet and sour lotus root, lotus root strips with sauce, lotus root with cold sauce and so on. They are all delicious, not difficult to make and easy to learn. You can master them skillfully through many attempts.
Let me share these practices of this lotus root, hoping to help you!
Sweet and sour lotus root
Cut onion into chopped green onion, peel and slice lotus root, and cut garlic into pieces.
Take a bowl, pour soy sauce and rice vinegar, add sugar, pour a little warm water, add corn starch, and stir well for later use.
Pour water into the pot, boil the water, add lotus root, take it out after boiling, soak it in cold water, and then take it out and drain it for later use.
Pour oil into the pan, heat the oil, add minced garlic into the pan and stir-fry until it smells like garlic, then add lotus root and stir-fry for a while, then pour in the prepared juice, stir-fry for a while, stir-fry the soup until it is thick, stir-fry the ingredients, add some chicken essence, turn off the fire and put it on the plate, and finally sprinkle with chopped green onion for decoration.
Cold lotus root
Cut the onion into chopped green onion, peel the lotus root and cut it into thin slices, then soak the lotus root slices in water, soak the starch out, and then rinse.
Pour the water into the pot. After the fire boils, add some salt, add lotus root slices, cook them, take them out, soak them in cold water, take them out and drain them and put them on a plate.
Pour pepper oil, Chili oil and soy sauce, add salt, a little sugar and monosodium glutamate, stir well and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
Sauced lotus root strips
Chop garlic, cut onion into chopped green onion, peel lotus root and cut into small strips for later use.
Take a bowl, put two eggs in the bowl, stir the egg liquid, add spiced powder, starch and salt, stir well, add lotus root strips, and let them be evenly coated with egg paste.
Take a bowl, pour soy sauce and oyster sauce into the bowl, add salt, pepper powder and thirteen spices, add a little sugar and monosodium glutamate, and stir well for later use.
Pour wide oil into the pot, heat the oil to 60%, add lotus root strips wrapped in egg paste, fry until golden brown, and take it out after frying.
Pour some oil into the pan, then put the minced garlic into the wok to fry the garlic flavor, then add the fried lotus root strips, pour in the prepared juice, stir fry evenly, collect the juice over high fire, and then take it out of the pan when the soup is almost collected, and finally sprinkle with chopped green onion.
Delicious lotus root strips with sauce are ready. You can try to do it yourself.