The cooking time of the horseshoe has a great relationship with its size and the steaming container used, generally if it is cooked in an ordinary pot, the general horseshoe, the water boils and then cooks for about 15-20 minutes, the pressure cooker, then about 10 minutes.

Horseshoe generally refers to water chestnut, is the Salix family water chestnut plants, creeping rhizomes long and thin, culms most, tufted, straight, slender, cylindrical, 40-100 cm high, 2-3 mm in diameter. Water chestnut is mostly planted in paddy fields, growing in wet soil, thin-skinned and juicy, very susceptible to water loss and shriveling and rotting and deterioration, mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan and other places with shallow water.

Water chestnut is sweet and crispy, rich in nutrients, containing protein, fat, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, iron, calcium and carbohydrates. It can be used for cooking and making starch. Guangdong snack horseshoe cake is made from the starch of water chestnut. Its fiber is globular and easily adsorbs debris and has a good intestinal cleansing function. If you want to eat raw must be the bud eye and the outer skin thoroughly removed, otherwise it is easy to lead to ginger bug eggs into the intestinal parasites.