There are many people who like to eat fruits, and everyone knows that fruits can be combined with other ingredients to make various delicacies, such as desserts, juices, dried fruits, etc.
Many fruits can also be used in cooking. From ancient times to the present, there are examples of fruits being used in dishes in our country’s food culture.
There are many fruits suitable for eating. Common ones include apples, pineapples, star fruits, lychees, strawberries, pears, plums, oranges, papayas, watermelons, longans, kumquats, coconuts, mangoes, etc.
When cooking with fruits, you need to consider the taste and texture of the fruits themselves.
For example, fruits with strong sourness can be used for cold dressing to remove the fishy smell of meat and relieve greasiness; fruits with crisp and tender flesh can be used for stir-frying; fruits with thick flesh can be used to make soups and sauces.
Fruits can be cooked in many ways, including stewing, boiling, frying, roasting, and can also be made into juice and jam for garnishing dishes.
Matching ingredients and choosing corresponding cooking methods according to the characteristics of fruits will not only be delicious, but also highlight the fresh fragrance of fruits, balance nutrition, and increase the characteristics and flavor of dishes.
Let me share with you a delicious dish made from fruits.
Lychee and Shrimp Balls Lychee is a very distinctive fruit. It has been described many times in ancient poems. The most famous one is the phrase "The concubine who rides on the red earth laughs".
Lychees are delicious when eaten directly. When used in cooking, they not only look good, but also have a very good taste.
Ingredients: appropriate amount of lychees, 10 prawns, and 1 egg.
Ingredients: Appropriate amount of green and red pepper and garlic.
Seasoning: appropriate amounts of salt, starch, cooking wine, and chicken juice.
Method: 1. Wash the prawns, remove the heads, open the back and remove the shrimp lines.
Peel off the upper half of the shrimp shells, leaving only the tail.
Then add cooking wine, cornstarch, and egg white and mix well.
2. Peel and core the lychees, soak them in light salt water and set aside.
When peeling, try to keep the lychee intact.
3. Cut the green and red peppers into shreds respectively, peel the garlic and cut into minced garlic.
4. Add oil to the pot, add minced garlic and sauté until fragrant. Fry the prawns briefly until they change color.
5. Stuff the shrimp meat into the lychee meat, leaving the shrimp tail exposed.
6. Return to the pot, add chicken juice, add lychee shrimp balls, sprinkle with green and red pepper shreds and simmer.
Before serving, add water and starch to thicken the sauce and season with salt.
Both lychees and shrimps are white, crystal clear, soft and delicate, and go well together.
This lychee shrimp ball is really beautiful and delicious, with a refreshing and delicious taste. It is a very classic fruit dish.
In addition, classic fruit dishes include pineapple sweetened pork, mango rice, coconut chicken, sour papaya duck soup, mixed fruit chicken and so on.
They all make full use of the characteristics of fruits to better add color and flavor to dishes.
If you are interested, you can make it yourself and try it.
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