The preservation methods of fresh spring bamboo shoots are: salted water preservation, cooked and refrigerated preservation, and well sealed preservation.

1, salt water preservation

If you buy spring bamboo shoots, is to be consumed in a short period of time, you can prepare a pot of salt warm water in advance. Then put the spring bamboo shoots directly into the salt water, soak for half an hour, and then take it out to control the water, you can let the spring bamboo shoots to save half a month or so, and will not deteriorate.

2, cooked refrigerated preservation

Want to spring bamboo shoots preserved a little longer, buy back the spring bamboo shoots, after shelling, divided into small pieces. At the same time the pot of boiling water, add the right amount of water in the pot, the pot of water boiling, add two tablespoons of salt, and then the bamboo shoots, directly into the hot water, will be cooked off. Dry the moisture of the spring bamboo shoots with a plastic bag packed directly turned into the refrigerator summary chilled.

3, sealed and preserved

Buy back the surface of the spring bamboo shoots will have a lot of soil, this time we must not deal with the soil clean, because the soil is the best protector of the spring bamboo shoots, but also the best preservative, as long as the kitchen paper will be wrapped up the spring bamboo shoots so that it is in a dry environment can be preserved.

How to dig spring bamboo shoots

The Maozhu bamboo shoots that come out of the ground after the beginning of spring are called spring bamboo shoots, and its bamboo shoots are divided into three phases: the early stage, from early February to early April; the middle stage, in mid- and late April; and the late stage, in May and thereafter.

All the spring bamboo shoots in the early and late stages of emergence can be dug up because of the small possibility of becoming bamboo. And the middle of the spring shoots, because of the individual large, robust, strong vitality, should be selected to keep most of its nurturing into bamboo. The ones that should be dug out are small diameter shoots, weak shoots, shallow whip shoots, crooked head shoots, small shoots and retreating shoots.

The characteristics of the retreating bamboo shoots are: no dew at the tip of the shoots in the morning on a sunny day, the shells of the bamboo shoots are hairless, dark in color and soft in texture. When digging bamboo shoots, do not hurt the bamboo whip, whip root and whip shoots. Immediately after digging bamboo shoots, cover the soil to fill the bamboo shoot holes.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Bamboo Shoots for more details