Stewing method of bird's nest:

First soak the bird's nest in clear water to make it soft and swell, then clean it with clear water and drain it, and then simmer it slowly. According to different species, the soaking time is different:

Blood swallow: soak it for 6-12 hours, and simmer it for 1-2 hours.

Bai Yan: soak for 4-6 hours and simmer for about 3 minutes -1 hour.

shredded tobacco: soak for 1 hour and simmer for 3 minutes.

Yan tiao: soak for 4 hours and simmer for 1 hour.

Yan cake: Soak for 3-4 hours and simmer for 1-2 hours.

Precautions for stewing:

1. Water quantity: the bird's nest is well brewed, poured into the stewing pot, and covered with appropriate amount of water; 2. Temperature: first boil the water with high fire, and then simmer it slowly; 3. All kinds of ingredients should be cooked separately. Main utensils: induction cooker or household liquefaction stove, ceramic saucepan with cover, stainless steel pot, strainer, spoon and milk cup

Bird's nest recipes: There are many bird's nest recipes, and it is reported that there are many ways to do it. Such as stewed bird's nest, stewed bird's nest and eaten with rock sugar; Bird's nest cold food, the stewed bird's nest is stored in the refrigerator and eaten at any time, which is a wonderful product to cool off the heat; Dessert bird's nest porridge, bird's nest and fine white rice are cooked into porridge, and a little rock sugar is added for dessert; Stewed chicken with bird's nest, put bird's nest into chicken belly and stew for 1 to 2 hours, which tastes very good; Stewed fish fat with bird's nest, stewed with fish fat and slightly added with rock sugar; Stewed Korean ginseng with bird's nest, add some rock sugar after stewing ... The recipe is adjusted according to everyone's hobbies.

It is important to soak the bird's nest in cold water or boiling water, and the soaking time should be moderate, not too short or too long. Some people think that it is time-consuming to pick up the fine swallow hair after soaking the bird's nest. For this, you might as well add a drop of raw oil to the soaked bird's nest, and then stir it with chopsticks, so that the swallow hair will drift away with the oil, making it easy to remove it. Some people don't like to soak bird's nest in boiling water, saying that boiling water is easy to melt bird's nest and make its ingredients lose. Some people say that it is easy to decompose bird's nest by adding salt too early when stewing bird's nest, so they can add salt when eating, and there are different opinions. However, one thing is recognized by everyone. Stewing bird's nest with chicken broth or mushroom soup is single and fresh, and its taste is not mixed. The dessert of bird's nest can be matched with rock sugar, coconut juice or almond juice, and the salty and sweet bird's nest can be cooked, which varies from person to person.

the simplest way to make bird's nest is to soak it in a bowl of pure water (about 1 grams with 3 ml of pure water) at different times according to different species, and stew it with low fire at different times. After stewing, it can be served with rock sugar, milk, honey, soybean milk, etc. (If you don't know, you can call the gourmet of Yanzhi House in Chaoyangmen to ask for details.)

Bird's nest is expensive, and only by careful cooking can it really become a treasure on the table.