Lotus seed cooking more than 30 minutes to cook.

Lotus seed is hard, boiled lotus seed is generally cooked for half an hour can be cooked, but after the lotus seed cooked taste is not very good, but also need to cook more, will be cooked, will be cooked with the lotus seed with a long time, the use of ordinary iron pot to cook, then, generally is about 1 ~ 2 hours. If you are using a pressure cooker to cook, 30~40 minutes can be .

If you want the lotus seeds to be easier to be cooked, then you can put the lotus seeds in water to soak for a period of time before cooking, so that its internal water absorption before cooking, so that the lotus seeds will be easier to be cooked. Or put the soaked lotus seeds in the refrigerator for a while, so that the water contained in the lotus seeds will form ice crystals and puncture the cell membrane, in the process of cooking will be easier to be cooked.

Lotus contains a lot of starch, not cooked when its texture is relatively hard to eat more crispy, after being cooked, the starch will be pasteurization reaction, the texture of the lotus will become soft and sticky. If the lotus seeds still taste brittle, it is recommended that the lotus seeds continue to put back into the pot stewed on low heat, or placed in the voltage pot inside the pressure for about 5-10 minutes, so that the lotus seeds can be quickly cooked, cooked soft.