How to cook water chestnuts
1. Salt water water chestnut
There are many colors of water chestnuts, including two-cornered, triangular, four-cornered, hornless, etc. There are many names. The green water chestnut shell will turn black after being cooked.
First, we need to prepare 500 grams of water chestnuts, 6 grams of salt, and two slices of ginger. Soak the water chestnuts in water for about half an hour. Then clean the dirt on the surface of the water chestnuts, put them into a pot, pour in water, and turn on high heat. boil.
After the water boils, add salt and ginger slices, cover and cook over medium heat for about a quarter of an hour. After it is cooked, you can take it out, drain the water and eat it. The effect is very good.
When eating, we can break it open with our hands or cut it with a knife. The nutritional value of water chestnuts is very high. It is a healthy beauty food. Water chestnuts also have certain medicinal value and can relieve pain in the waist and leg muscles.
2. Water chestnut cake
The cake made with water chestnuts and donkey-hide gelatin dates has a sweet and greasy taste, and tastes better than pure glutinous rice, with a strong jujube aroma. When making water chestnut cakes, we need to use 200 grams of seedless and ready-to-eat donkey-hide gelatin dates, 400 grams of water chestnuts, 100 grams of glutinous rice flour, 3 rice dumpling leaves, and prepare two jelly shells.
First, soak the rice dumpling leaves in water and wash them clean, cut them into sections and set aside. Then use donkey-hide gelatin to make jujube paste. Boil the water chestnuts with water and make a paste. Add glutinous rice flour to the water chestnut paste and knead it into a ball.
Flatten the dough and fill it into the jelly shell, fill it with jujube paste, seal it and press it flat, demould it onto the rice dumpling leaves, and finally, steam it over high heat for fifteen minutes.
3. Water chestnut rice
Prepare 20 raw water chestnuts, 4 dried shiitake mushrooms, three tablespoons of minced meat, a quarter of an onion, a tablespoon of dried shrimps, and two cups of glutinous rice.
Ingredients include 2 tablespoons of sesame oil, 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, half a spoon of sugar, and water.
First, we need to clean the glutinous rice, drain the water, add water and soak it for four hours, wash the mushrooms and soak them until soft, drain them and cut them into cubes, clean the shrimps, and cut the onions into cubes for later use.
Clean the water chestnuts and cut each water chestnut into three sections. Preheat the pan, add sesame oil, add diced onions, dried shrimps, shiitake mushrooms, and minced meat in sequence. Stir-fry until half-cooked. Add other seasonings and cook into soup. You can turn off the flame later.
Finally, add the glutinous rice to the prepared ingredients, stir it slightly and put it into the electric pot to cook. Then simmer for about fifteen minutes. After opening, stir gently and it is ready to eat.
Autumn is the season when water chestnuts are on the market. People prefer to eat water chestnuts because they can strengthen the body and lose weight. They are rich in nutrients. However, we must pay attention to the dietary taboos of water chestnuts to avoid harming the body.