1, the sunshine method of dried water chestnut

(1) first fresh water chestnut remove the old leaves and impurities, water chestnut root is best not to excise, because its root also has a very good medicinal health care efficacy. If you really hate the texture and flavor of the caper root, then excise and throw it away, but it's just too much of a waste of a good thing.

(2) choose good chestnut repeatedly wash clean, put aside a little water control. At the same time to boil a pot of boiling water, and add the right amount of salt and a little cooking oil in the water, boil the chestnut into the boiling water, blanch until the color of the chestnut into a dark green, immediately out of the pot soak into cold water.

(3) when the capers cooled after fishing out of the control of the water above, spread on the sunny and well-ventilated place, sunshine two to three days or so into the capers dry. If the capers hang up to dry better.

(4) and so on the chestnut sun to completely dry, put up into a bundle of small bundles, into a plastic bag sealed preservation can be.

2, dried chestnut eating

(1) drinking water: take about 15 grams of dried chestnut herb (also available 30 grams of fresh chestnut), chopped. Each time to take about 7 grams of boiling water, covered with a stew for about 10 minutes to drink, drink can be renewed after the boiling water, until the caper is soaked in light and tasteless. Drinking 2 times a day, there are tonic spleen and heart and clear the liver to lower blood pressure, the main treatment of various types of hypertension.

(2) cold mixed with dried chestnuts: the dried chestnuts with water soaked and then washed, squeezed dry, chopped. Add soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, sugar, salt and sesame oil and mix well.

(3) fried dried capers: prepare dried capers, chili pepper section, salt, soy sauce, crushed garlic cloves, broth or water each appropriate amount. The dried water chestnuts according to the above method to deal with good to use, start the frying pan to heat the oil, down into the dried water chestnuts, garlic cloves and chili pepper section and stir-fry, and then add appropriate amount of broth or water, cook for a while on the adjustment into the soy sauce and salt, out of the pot.

(4) do buns or dumplings filling: dried capers can also be used to make buns or dumplings filling, also need to first soak the dried capers in water and then wash, and then finally squeezed dry and chopped, the specific method of seasoning and fresh capers.