Reading guide: Every year from April to mid-May, it is the time when mulberries are listed in large quantities, I remember when I was a child, every day after school, I would sit on the tree and eat until I was half full and went home, and I would start to have diarrhea in less than 1 hour after going home, so I was always scolded by my grandparents. In our local area, there are now many orchards where you can pick mulberries, compared to the mulberries we used to eat, the current mulberries are not only bigger, but also sweeter to eat, so every year when the mulberries are on the market, I will take my family to the picking garden to play, and by the way, let the children feel the breath of nature.
And this year I went to the mulberry picking garden, is a new one opened this year, it only costs 10 yuan for 1 ticket, 5 yuan for children, and the picked mulberries are only 15 yuan 1 catty, which is already very cheap. As soon as I came to the picking garden, the boss politely gave us a leaflet, teaching us how to pick mulberries and how to wash mulberries, and also said that they never sprayed in the mulberry garden, but it does not mean that they can eat more, the mulberries are too sweet, and some mulberries will breed germs and insect eggs, so when eating mulberries, we must wash them thoroughly. And everyone picks the mulberries home, don't just use salt water to soak, because salt water can not completely remove the mulberry eggs, with salt water blisters is equivalent to eating eggs, you follow the steps on the leaflet to clean the strawberries, to ensure that the eggs are all gone, eat more assured.
Not to mention, after I went home and cleaned the mulberries according to the method of the leaflet, everyone in the family ate 3-4 taels, and none of them had diarrhea, so today I want to share this method of washing mulberries with you, I hope you will stop having diarrhea after eating.
Step 1: Pick mulberries
When you buy mulberries, try to choose dark black, big, this mulberry is the sweetest, if you want to eat sweet and sour, you can pick the tail with a little red, buy mulberries to buy the surface reflective, this kind of mulberry is the most durable, if there is no luster, it is a mulberry that has been put for a few days, the taste is relatively poor, and it is not resistant to put.
Step 2: Baking soda starch soaked mulberries
Prepare a large basin, put mulberries and an appropriate amount of water into the basin, the water can submerge the mulberries, and then put a handful of starch and a spoonful of baking soda into the water, stir the water evenly, soak the mulberries for 15 minutes to take them out, and soak them for at least 15 minutes before the eggs can be killed.
Step 3: Starch soaked mulberries
Remove the soaked mulberries, then rinse the mulberries with running water, then put the mulberries, half a handful of starch, and an appropriate amount of water into the basin and stir evenly, and then soak the mulberries for 5 minutes and remove them. Soaking the mulberries a second time can precipitate all the dust and insect eggs that may remain in the mulberries to the bottom of the water, making the mulberries cleaner.
Step 4: Rinse the mulberries
Soak the mulberries, first rinse the mulberries with tap water, and then put the mulberries into a cool white boil to soak for 1 minute and take them out, and then drain the water in the mulberries to eat, and the washed mulberries should be eaten within 5 hours, otherwise there will be germs.
[The principle of baking soda starch washing mulberry]: Because baking soda is an alkaline substance, when insect eggs and other germs encounter alkaline substances, they will die quickly and slowly fall off from the mulberry, and starch has a strong adsorption capacity, it can adsorb the dirt in the mulberry into the water, so that the mulberry is completely washed.
And every spring, in addition to mulberries can be eaten raw, in fact, it is stewed into soup, which has the effect of nourishing blood and qi, calming the nerves and helping sleep, such as the mulberry barley and suckling pigeon soup that I will introduce to you next, which is also a soup that I often drink in spring.
Ingredients preparation: 30 grams of washed mulberries, 25 grams of barley, 1 pigeon, and an appropriate amount of ginger.
Method: Wash the pigeon and cut it into small pieces, then put the pigeon and an appropriate amount of cold water into the pot, blanch the pigeon on high heat for 7 minutes and then take it out, then put the rinsed pigeon and an appropriate amount of hot water, ginger and barley into the pot and stew for 45 minutes, and finally put the mulberry and salt into the pot, stew for 10 minutes and eat.
Don't soak mulberries directly in salt water, which is equivalent to eating insect eggs, wash mulberries with baking soda starch water, and the insect eggs will run out, and you can eat more assured! If today's article is helpful to you, please click a follow, a like, this is the greatest support for me. In the follow-up, Chef Hu will explain more cooking tips and health maintenance skills to everyone, and finally thank you for watching.
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