Water chestnut boiled in water not only tastes good, but the soup is also very high in nutritional value. So how to cook water chestnuts? The following teaches you how to boil water chestnuts.

1, with a small brush to brush the skin of water chestnuts clean, put into the cooking pot (avoid using iron pot), pour 4-5 times the water.

2, put the cooking pot on the fire, high heat boil, turn to low heat slow cooking pot of water chestnuts.

3, until the water chestnuts are cooked through. When the water in the last pot is almost dry, open the lid of the pot, hand Chao cooking pot, let the water chestnuts slowly juice, so that the water chestnuts are especially sweet, especially delicious (note that this is a big secret to make boiled water chestnuts taste good).

4. When the water chestnuts are cooled down, put them into cool boiling water to wash away the sugar sticky things on the outer skin.

5, dry the outer skin after washing the cooked water chestnuts, eat when peeling can be.

6, cooked water chestnuts, placed in a ventilated place, after drying, only delicious, not sticky.

1, first wash the water chestnuts with water, because water chestnuts are native plants, their roots and whiskers are easy to grow parasites and bacteria. First of all, the knife will be water chestnut a cut into two (vertical direction), and then use the knife along the semicircular direction of the roots and whiskers are scraped off, especially some of the dirt hidden in the concave, to use the tip of the knife a little bit of a pick clean, and then cleaned with water, so as to ensure that water chestnut hygiene, soup clear and less impurities. The reason why to keep the water chestnut skin on the part of the clean purple-black skin, because it contains phosphorus and other trace elements, and can make the soup to increase the light purple-red pigment, so that people increase appetite.

2, the amount of water to cook water chestnuts no regulations, of course, more water chestnuts less soup flavor is heavy, and vice versa is light. First boil on high heat, then stew on low heat for about ten minutes, do not rush to drink, let the water chestnuts in the pot "boring" for an hour, so that the soup quality is more "thick".

3, in order to adjust the taste, according to my preference to add rock sugar or sugar; can also be based on personal health, appropriate to add other herbs, such as wolfberry (clear liver and eyesight). I cook water chestnut soup, put a small amount of rock sugar and wolfberry, taste is very good.

Can babies eat water chestnuts

Of course they can. The baby can eat some water chestnuts in moderation from five to six months. Babies eat water chestnut has many benefits, such as:

1, water chestnut contains phosphorus is the highest in the root vegetables, every 100 grams of water chestnut has 68 mg of phosphorus, can promote the human body to grow and develop and maintain physiological function, the development of the teeth and bones have a lot of good benefits, and at the same time, can promote the body's sugar, fat, protein metabolism of the three major substances, regulating the acid-base balance, so water chestnut is especially suitable for children!

2, water chestnut contains a heat-resistant antimicrobial ingredient - water chestnut Ying, staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and other inhibitory effect, and can inhibit the influenza virus. Therefore, in the spring of respiratory infectious diseases, babies often eat fresh water chestnuts are conducive to the prevention and treatment of influenza, measles, whooping cough and acute pharyngolaryngitis. In the spring when measles and epidemic meningitis are more likely to occur, water chestnut is a good disease prevention food.

3, water chestnut is cold, rich in mucus, has the effect of clearing lung heat, can produce fluids and moisturize the lungs, can clear phlegm heat.

4, water chestnut is cold food, can clear heat and diarrhea, but also can supplement the nutrition, for the early stage of fever patients have a very good fever reduction effect. It is very suitable for children, and babies can eat it when they have fever. Rich in water, can be used to quench thirst. Suitable for the late stage of fever and thirst and low fever, but also to prevent influenza.