Fresh fungus can be cooked directly.

Fresh fungus can be cooked directly, fresh fungus stewing time than dry fungus time is shorter, the taste will be more tender, soft and delicious. However, it contains porphyrin photoreceptors, which can cause allergic reactions if consumed in large quantities, so it's better to treat it properly before eating it.

Before cooking and eating, you can use boiling water to blanch for a minute or so, and then soak, soak 2 times after tearing off the impurities, and then put directly into the pot to cook on it.

Notes

The best way to soak silver fungus is in cold water. With hot water to soak fungus and silver ear, not only is not easy to fully open, the texture will be soft and sticky, many of the nutrients are dissolved and lost.

The fungus must be rooted upward so that it can soak through. To be soaked only to pick up sediment and hardened root knot, not scrubbing, because the silver ear leaves are thin and brittle, easy to knead rotten.

The day after cooking the silver fungus to eat the best, but the so-called silver fungus soup overnight after its nutrients reduced, and produce harmful ingredients nitrite claims are rumors.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Ginkgo Fungus