1 Water chestnut cook for a few minutes

10-15 minutes or so.

Although water chestnuts belong to a kind of fruit, but because water chestnuts contain more starch, and the texture is hard, so water chestnuts are still more difficult to be cooked, usually need to be cooked for about 10-15 minutes to be cooked, the specific time and the size of the water chestnuts also has a lot to do with the size of the water chestnuts.

If you are pressed for time, you can also choose to use a pressure cooker to cook water chestnuts, because the pressure cooker can keep the water at a high temperature and boil, thus reducing the time to cook the food, so using a pressure cooker to cook water chestnuts usually only takes about 5 minutes.

2 Why water chestnuts don't cook softly

By themselves, they are crunchy.

The water chestnut is a kind of aquatic plant, usually the underground bulb as food, can be eaten raw, cooked food can also be eaten as food, its skin color purple and black, white meat, eaten raw, sweet and juicy flavor, crisp and delicious, there is a "subterranean Sydney," the name.

If you don't want to eat it raw, then you can also cook it and eat it again, just cook the water chestnut and then eat it again, it is still crunchy, and will not become very soft.

3 Water chestnut cooked or cold

is cold.

Water chestnut is sweet and cold in nature, it can reduce the heat in the body after eating, it has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood, quenching thirst, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm for the human body, and cooking will not change the nature of the water chestnut, so the water chestnut is still cold after cooking.

Just because after cooking, the temperature of water chestnut will be relatively high, and the starch contained therein will also undergo a certain pasteurization, so it is easier to digest and absorb water chestnut after cooking.

4 How long can you keep water chestnuts after cooking

Depends on the situation.

Cooked water chestnuts contain a lot of nutrients, in the case of improper preservation or preservation time is too long, it will be very easy to breed bacteria deterioration.

So if you can't finish the boiled water chestnuts temporarily, it is recommended to wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for low temperature storage, which can inhibit the activity of most enzymes and microorganisms to a certain extent, so as to prolong the preservation time of water chestnuts, which can be preserved for 1-3 days under the condition of refrigeration, and for 1-3 months under the condition of freezing.