Use automatic stew pot: time for 40 minutes, to the time automatically jump. There is a countdown on it, so if you need to add ingredients, just add them within the last 5-10 minutes.
If you use a traditional porcelain crock pot, put it in the pot, high heat to boil, low heat and slow cook for about 25-30 minutes, you need to watch the time and turn off the fire yourself.
Stewed bird's nest are used pure water or mineral water.
The more water you add, the lighter the bird's nest will be. The less water you add, the thicker the bird's nest will be. (Generally control it to be more than about 5mm over the bird's nest)
After the bird's nest is stewed, then add rock sugar or rock bees' sugar, rock bees' sugar has a better flavor. If you need to divide the bird's nest into several servings, add the rock candy or rock candy each time you serve it, so that the bird's nest doesn't become watery.
The most common bird's nest recipes
1. Rock Sugar Bird's Nest
Ingredients: Bird's nest (3-5g), Rock Sugar (moderate)
■ Put the soaked and cleaned bird's nest into the stewing pot, add purified/mineral water, the water should be not more than the bird's nest a little bit;
■ After the pot of water is boiled, put the lid on and put it into the pot, and the water level to the half of the stewing pot;
■ The water level to half of the stewing pot is high.
Materials: 1 bird's nest, 1 pear, 5 wolfberries, 1 bowl of water, rock sugar.
Method: Stew the above ingredients in water for about 30 minutes.
3. Bird's nest stewed with jujube and rock sugar
Effects: tonifying blood, moistening the lungs and nourishing the spirit.
Materials: 1 bird's nest about 6g, 8 jujube core, rock sugar.
Method: Stew the above ingredients in water for about 30 minutes.
4. Coconut bird's nest stewed rock sugar
Effects: nourishing Yin, moistening the lungs, nourishing the face.
Materials: 1 bird's nest, 200ml fresh milk, two tablespoons of coconut milk, rock sugar, 2 bowls of water.
Method: Bird's nest, rock sugar, water stew together, fifteen minutes before the start of the pot, the fresh milk, coconut milk into. Stew another fifteen minutes can be.
5. Bird's nest stewed lotus seeds
Effects: nourishing Yin, nourish the spirit, replenish blood.
Materials: 1 bird's nest, lotus seed, lily, longan meat 5g each, 1 bowl of water, lily lotus seed soaked for 30min first; rock sugar moderate.
Method: the above materials can be stewed in water for half an hour.
6. Bird's nest stewed pear
Effects: moisturize the lungs, cough.
Materials: 1 bird's nest, 1 pear, 5g of Sichuan shellfish, 1 bowl of water, rock sugar.
Method: the above materials (except Chuanbei) first stew for half an hour, and finally add Chuanbei stew five minutes can be.
7. Bird's nest stewed with red dates, snow pear and silver fungus
Effects: nourish the spirit, replenish blood, moisturize the lungs.
Materials: 1 bird's nest, 8 jujube core, half of pear, half of silver ear; rock sugar, 1 bowl of water.
Method: soak the silver fungus for half an hour, and stew the above materials in water for half an hour.
8. Cinnamon red dates stewed bird's nest
Effects: nourish the spirit, replenish blood.
Materials: 1 bird's nest, 5 cinnamon balls, 8 dates, rock sugar, 1 bowl of water.
Method: Stew the above ingredients in water for half an hour.