How to eat dried lotus seeds? Health care starts from every drop in life. Last time I told you about longan. Today, I explained the use of dried lotus seeds in our family. We usually cook porridge directly. If you want to bubble it with water in advance, you can soak it for 30 minutes, and then steam it with water for 15 minutes. As for the dried lotus seeds, you can do it I would like to give you a detailed explanation in the article.
Lotus seed and tremella soup
Materials: 200g lotus seeds, tremella fuciformis, 250g sugar, sweet osmanthus juice, a little alkali
Methods:
1. Add alkali to the boiling water, put the lotus seeds into the boiling water, stir and wash the lotus seeds to remove the skin. Rinse the lotus seeds with water until the alkali taste is gone. Poke out the lotus core, and then scald the lotus seeds in boiling water.
2. Soak Tremella in warm water, rinse and cut into petals. Put the lotus seeds in a bowl, add water to the steamer, and take out the juice.
3. Set the pot on fire, pour in a proper amount of water, sugar, osmanthus juice, boil, put Tremella slightly hot, remove, put in a bowl, then pour lotus seeds, pour sweet scented osmanthus sugar juice in the pot.
This product is sweet and glutinous. It has the effect of tonifying lung and spleen, nourishing heart and kidney. It is suitable for old and weak, insomnia, dreaminess, cough, dysphoria and other diseases.
Tranquilizing steamed buns
Materials: flour, meat 500 g, lotus 100 g, cypress 50 G
Methods:
1. First, grind the lotus meat and cypress kernel and set aside. Wash the meat, chop it into meat paste, add lotus meat, cypress kernel and various seasonings, mix well into stuffing.
2. Flour and water into a dough, picked into 60 pieces of gray, wrapped in stuffing heart, made into baozi shape, cage, steamed with high heat boiling water about 8 minutes, see steamed bun is jade color, the bottom does not stick to the hand is cooked.
This food is sweet and delicious. It has the functions of nourishing the mind, calming the mind, and promoting health. It is suitable for body fatigue and weakness, dull mouth, insomnia and dreaminess.
Rock lotus seed
Materials: 250 grams of dried lotus seeds, 300 grams of glutinous rice, 100 grams of bean paste filling and gold cake, appropriate amount of sugar, osmanthus sugar and rock sugar
Methods:
1. Soak the dried lotus seeds a little, wash off the skin and lotus core, and then add some sugar and water. Steam the lotus seeds into the steamer until they are ripe.
2. After boiling the glutinous rice in boiling water, take it out and steam it in the steamer. Mix the sugar and osmanthus sugar. Take a large bowl and apply a layer of cooked lard in the bowl. Code the lotus seeds in the bowl and sprinkle with crushed rock sugar. Lay the steamed glutinous rice on the top, and put the bean paste stuffing in the middle of the cooked glutinous rice, and steam the steamer thoroughly.
3. Take it out and turn it into a plate, press the golden cake into mud, put it into a pot with sugar, add appropriate amount of water to make amber sticky juice, and pour it on lotus seeds.
It has the effect of moistening the lung, nourishing the spleen, tonifying Qi, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind. It is a good food for the elderly with physical deficiency.
The skin of lotus seed is as thin as paper, and it takes a lot of time to peel it. So now the machines for plucking the black shell of lotus seeds are popular. However, after a long time, the experts of civil liberties have taught us to peel lotus seeds. Wash the lotus seeds, then put them into the boiling water just boiled, add some alkali, simmer for a while, pour out the lotus seeds, rub them hard, and the skin will fall off quickly.