In summer, everyone loses their appetite, so if we eat greasy dishes at this time, it will make us hate summer even more. Everyone’s favorite dish every summer is probably cold salad, especially cucumber, which is crisp, appetizing and refreshing. It is stirred with sauce and is very suitable for weather like summer. In addition to cold cucumbers, many ingredients can be eaten cold. Take fungus, for example, it is not only a side dish for many dishes, but can also be taken out alone to make a cold fungus.

The cold fungus we usually order in restaurants is very sour and appetizing, and the fungus is also very tasty. With the cold sauce, you don’t have to worry about losing your appetite in summer. So every time I go to a restaurant in the summer, I order a cold fungus, but when I cook it at home, it doesn’t taste as expected at all. Even the fungus is tasteless at all, let alone the sauce. Whether or not the fungus should be cooked in cold salad was something that worried me a lot in the first year of junior high school. It wasn’t until I saw what my friend did that I realized that the trick is here!

Ingredients Preparation

Half a box of black fungus, two red peppers, four cloves of garlic, two spoons of white sugar, one spoon of salt, and one spoon of chicken essence , one spoon of light soy sauce, one spoon of mature vinegar, two spoons of sesame oil, a little sesame seeds, and one green onion.

The process of making cold fungus

1: Prepare half a bowl of water, put the fungus in to soak first, if you have fresh ones, just buy fresh ones. No need to soak your hair.

2: Clean the soaked fungus and cut into small florets for later use.

3: Then start to prepare the sauce. Cut the garlic into minced garlic and put it in a bowl. Cut the pepper into small rings and put it in. Add two spoons of white sugar and one spoon of chicken essence and mix well.

4: Boil hot water in a pot, add a spoonful of salt in it, then put the fungus in and cook for one minute.

5: When the fungus is cooked, take it out and rinse it with cold water, drain the water and put it on a plate for later use.

6: Heat the oil in the pot. After the oil is hot, pour it directly into the sauce bowl you just prepared, and let the hot oil bring out the flavor of the minced garlic.

7: Add one spoonful of light soy sauce, one spoonful of vinegar and two spoons of sesame oil into a small bowl and mix well.

8: Put the stirred sauce into the fungus plate in three batches. Stir evenly and sprinkle an appropriate amount of chopped green onion inside. If there are sesame seeds, you can sprinkle some white sesame seeds on top.

9: This cold fungus dish is done.

Tips

Do not use hot water to soak the fungus, otherwise the fungus will be soaked. Use room temperature or cold water to soak half of it. More than an hour is basically enough. If you are not sure how salty the sauce is for the first time, you can taste it first to confirm the taste before pouring it on! Don't be in a hurry to eat the freshly mixed fungus. Leave it for about ten minutes to let the fungus evenly absorb the flavor before eating it. It will definitely be delicious. The cold fungus must be cooked. Raw fungus cannot be eaten, and the cooked fungus can quickly absorb the flavor.