When I first ate it, before I knew what it was, I was already captured by its sweet and crunchy texture. I've never tasted anything like water chestnuts, which whether mashed or boiled in soup for a long time, will still maintain this crunchy texture, which got me hooked as soon as I ate it.
There are many ways to eat water chestnuts: in soup, stir-fry, and as a filling for dumplings. My favorite way is to make soup and pastry. Here are a few ways to make water chestnuts:
This soup was made by my family when I first came to Guangdong, and my family made it for me to drink. Because of its climate, people in Guangdong have the habit of making soups to improve their health. But in our hometown, there is no habit of making soup during meals. When I looked at the soup, I was even a little worried that the flavor was too bland, how could I drink it? But after a sip, I was defeated, the flavor of the soup is sweet and not fishy and not greasy, and the sweet and crunchy horseshoes is to make the whole soup is refreshing.
Ingredients: chicken, horseshoes, ginger, red dates, cordyceps flowers
Method:
1, chicken wash, add ginger wine blanch again with boiling water, remove the chicken skin, other materials wash and cut, horseshoes peeled;
2, the chicken, horseshoes, cordyceps flowers, ginger and red dates into the pot together, heating water, slow simmering on low heat for 1 hour;
3, and finally put salt to taste. > 3, and finally put salt to taste.
Horseshoe chicken soup can clear the heat summer fire, but also has the role of replenishing the deficiency, the key is also very good to drink, due to the horseshoe itself is very sweet, so the soup does not need to put the honey dates will also have a sweet flavor.
This sweet soup is also my very favorite, both good to do and good to drink, the key is the whole soup color is very cool and moist, so people have a sense of beauty, and more a kind of drink it will become beautiful feeling.
Ingredients: silver fungus, red dates, horseshoes, rock sugar.
Practice:
1, the silver fungus washed and soaked, torn into a small standby, horseshoes cut into pieces, jujubes cut into two halves;
2, add water to the pot, put the silver fungus, horseshoes and jujubes, large fire to boil, and then simmer for 40 minutes on a low fire;
3, add rock sugar for flavor, after the rock sugar dissolved out of the pot.
This soup nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, transforms phlegm and generates fluids, and can also beautify your face if you drink it often!
Horseshoe cake Q elastic smooth, accompanied by the flavor of coconut milk, is really very delicious and not tired of a pastry.
Ingredients: water chestnut flour, coconut milk, condensed milk, yellow sugar, milk
Method: 1, 150g of water chestnut flour, add 300ml of water, mix well and sieve again, yellow sugar with water to make sugar water;
2, the water chestnut flour pulp slowly poured into the boiled sugar water and stirred well;
3, 100g of water chestnut flour, coconut milk, condensed milk and pure milk, mix well and stir well and pure milk, mix well and sieve;
4, add water to the pot, put a deep dish container, first add 2 tablespoons of yellow pulp, steam over high heat for 2-3 minutes, then add the white pulp, steam for 2-3 minutes, repeat these two steps, continue to add layers, and the last layer of the last layer of the yellow pulp, steam for 5 minutes, and then take out, let it cool and then cut it into pieces, then you can eat it.
This way out of the coconut water chestnut lasagna, I can eat a mouthful of several, if you like a pastry with a crunchy granularity, you can also add some water chestnut particles in the batter.
Water chestnuts are crisp, sweet and juicy, a fruit and a vegetable. I remember the March fireworks under the Yangzhou season, the streets of Yangzhou have a lot of water chestnut vendors, carts on one side is not peeled, one side is peeled, washed into the bag, looking at the white chubby water chestnuts, there is a desire to eat, so buy buy buy, hand in hand with a bag to eat as you walk, an entrance, wow, sweet and crispy water chestnuts, instantly quenched his thirst, the most unforgettable is that the Yangzhou The most memorable thing is that the water chestnuts in Yangzhou are more delicious than those in Beijing. I think this is the reason why water chestnuts are raised on one side of the soil! I think it's because of the water and soil that makes the water chestnuts so good! Stealing the beam for a moment. It's not that I'm a "Yang" panderer, but I really feel that the water chestnuts I ate before are not comparable to the ones I ate in Yangzhou! Thus, a pocket of raw water chestnuts, seconds! See here, there must be a lot of people will come out to refute: water chestnuts grow in the silt, eaten raw will have parasites, eaten after the body is not good, how do you dare to eat raw? How to explain? Strictly speaking, directly eat raw is not good, but when I see the streets are full of, full of streets basically a handful of time, will not be able to restrain their own impulses, of course, more importantly, I like to feel the travel in the little by little, like to integrate into the local life, so that they are in a short stay of a few days, not to miss every detail, taste only belongs to the local conditions and customs there. Maybe, maybe, this is the meaning of my traveling! These are the reasons for eating raw water chestnuts, you can understand for the time being that I am pretentious, I won't blame you, haha! Let's get back to the main topic, how to make water chestnuts, it is usually added when mixing meat stuffing, it is the chef's favorite! It can also be used to make vegetarian stir-fry for sweet soup. I will say a simple - orange water chestnut, is a dessert after dinner, girls and children will love, Ma Li'er on the practice:
1. water chestnut peeled and washed, into the pot to cook, can be a little longer, anyway, water chestnut is not afraid to cook, cook 8 minutes, and then fish out the water chestnuts, water chestnuts don't pour out oh, and water chestnuts, and also use and use! The water used to boil the water chestnuts should not be poured away!
2. water chestnuts into a large bowl, pour the Fruit Zhen, orange juice flavor, add sugar, in order to neutralize the acidity of the orange juice, pour the water to cook water chestnuts, which is absolutely the original clever use of flavor and nutrition, one can not be less!
3. Stir the soup well, remember, the soup should be wide, must be no more than water chestnuts, the next task is to soak, color, taste, an hour before the meal to do it in time.
The water chestnut in orange juice, yellow in color, tastes like orange juice, is very strong, crisp and tasty, and eat with the meal, and the effect of unctuousness. The rest of the water to cook water chestnuts, you can drink directly, you can get rid of fire, moisten the lungs ...... In short, the benefits are many, don't waste on the good ha!
The following is from the ginger master's pure hand-typed answer
Jiang master to say how to eat water chestnuts
We first come to understand the water chestnut plant, water chestnut is also known as the horse's hooves, water chestnuts, etc., native to China, widely distributed throughout the world, all over the country are cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas for more. Water chestnut skin color purple and black, white flesh, sweet and juicy taste, crisp and delicious, both as a fruit to eat raw, but also as a vegetable to eat.
Master Jiang loved to eat water chestnuts when he was a child, and the simplest and most brutal way is to gnaw off the skin and start eating it directly, which is crispy and sweet but not greasy, and it is the best way to quench your thirst.
In fact, there are a lot of simple and delicious water chestnuts next I will say, first of all, water chestnuts after peeling a divided into four pieces, with rock sugar directly into the casserole stewed for about 30 minutes, a simple water chestnut sweet soup is completed, while according to their own preferences can also be added to the silver ear, jujubes, goji berries and other ingredients.
And then a fried vegetables of water chestnut practice it, first of all, ready to remove the sand line shrimp after adding salt, egg white, cooking wine, white pepper marinade for 15 minutes.
Start the oil pan oil temperature burned to 8 percent, the first will be ready to put the water chestnuts first into the pan fried to break the birth of the removed, the pan to stay in the bottom of the oil shrimp into the frying until the color change, and then before the fried water chestnuts into the frying together with a little salt seasoning can be out of the pan, fried when you can also add according to their own preferences such as carrots, celery, fungus and other ingredients with.
Above is the ginger master for water chestnut how to do the answer, I hope the owner like.
Juanzi to share a delicious and nutritious water chestnuts specific production methods, like this method can also be done according to this method;
Silver fungus, jujubes, water chestnuts, rock sugar
1; first of all, the silver fungus with water soaking, remove the yellow tip torn into a small, red dates washed
2; water chestnuts peeled and washed and cut into small pieces
3; the tearing of good The torn fungus, jujubes, water chestnuts, rock sugar together into the soup pot, add the right amount of water
4; cover the lid of the large fire boil to a small fire slowly simmering for 60 minutes
5; to be the soup yellow thick, the fungus is soft and rotten can be out of the pot
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Raw: Peeled as a fruit to eat, eat before you eat, make sure to carefully wash, wash the skin, peeled, do not remove the skin can be eaten
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Cooked: because the water chestnut has heat and fire, supplemental nutrients, can be washed and cooked to eat, like fried, burned, vegetables, cooking, canning, cold fruit preserves can be, not only nutritious and has a very high medicinal value
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Water chestnut and pear soup: water chestnut and pear are juicy lung food, the two boiled into a water chestnut and pear soup can cure coughs, Clear lung heat, take rock sugar, 30 grams of water chestnuts, 100 grams of snow pears, water chestnuts washed and peeled and cut into pieces, snow pears washed and cut into pieces with the skin, and then put into the pot together, add rock sugar, cover the lid of the pot, after boiling over a high flame, then cook over a low flame for 15 minutes
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Water chestnut porridge: water chestnut porridge has the effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, eliminating food and promoting the generation of body fluids to quench thirst, such as coughing and phlegm, lung heat, deficiency of yin and thirst can take once a day, team symptoms and symptoms of the cough, the thirst and the cough, and then the water chestnut porridge. can be taken once a day, the team symptoms can play a good role in relieving; rice, water chestnut 100 grams, rock sugar, water chestnut cleaned and peeled and cut into pieces, rice cleaned and put into the pot to cook porridge, and so the porridge is almost cooked and then add cut water chestnuts and rock sugar, cooked can be eaten
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jellyfish and water chestnut soup: jellyfish and water chestnut soup can nourish the yin and moisturize the lungs, the efficacy of clearing away the heat and resolving the phlegm, take the water chestnut 100 grams, 50 grams of jellyfish skin, water chestnuts washed and peeled and sliced, jellyfish skin washed, the two together into the pot, add water to cook into soup can be eaten
Water chestnut silver ear soup
Ingredients: water chestnuts; silver ear; wolfberry; rock sugar
Practice:
Silver ear soaked in advance.
Wash and peel the water chestnuts and cut them in half, and soak the wolfberries in cold water
The silver fungus into the pot, add enough water, boil and simmer over high heat, add water chestnuts and rock sugar to simmer the silver fungus becomes sticky, add the wolfberries and cook
Water chestnut fried black fungus
Water chestnuts, dried black fungus, fresh bell pepper, vegetable oil, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate (MSG).
Practice:
water chestnuts peeled and cut into pieces; dry black fungus soaked in water, rice pepper narrative cut into small sections;
frying pan with vegetable oil is hot, under the rice pepper burst incense
put the water chestnuts to fry, and then under the black fungus with the frying, put the sugar, salt to fry, and add monosodium glutamate can be
water chestnuts sugar water
Ingredients:
The water chestnuts, the berries, the water chestnuts and the water chestnuts are all in the water, but the water chestnuts are not in the water. p> Water chestnut, wolfberry, sugar, water
Method:
1, water chestnut peeled and washed, cut small pieces.
2, cold water into the pot, add water chestnuts and a small amount of sugar, cook to a boil and then turn to a low fire to cook
3, put the wolfberry off the fire and simmer for five minutes.
Luffa water chestnut fried fungus
Ingredients:
Luffa, fungus, water chestnuts, salt, monosodium glutamate
Steps:
1, Luffa cut into sections
2, ready to prepare the ingredients
3, the pot of vegetable oil, frying the Luffa
4, add the fungus, water chestnuts, stir fry
4, add the fungus, stir fry
5, add the salt, the water chestnuts, stir fry
5, add the water chestnuts and the water chestnut.
5, add salt, monosodium glutamate can be
pear lotus root water chestnut soup
Material:
lotus root, yam, water chestnuts, avocado, salt
steps:
1, the lotus root, yam peeled and cut into small pieces, avocado cut into chunks, water chestnuts peeled.
2, the lotus root, yam and water chestnuts into the pot, add the right amount of water, cooked, and then add the snow pear slightly cooked for about ten minutes
3, add the right amount of salt to taste.