Lotus root, native to India, is a medicinal and food-use vegetable, which can be eaten raw or cooked, and is the most common vegetable on people's tables.
All vegetables have their edible value, and the edible value of lotus root is very high. Raw lotus is cool, can cool blood to stop bleeding, clear heat and jin, cooked lotus is warm, for warm supplements.
Lotus, "out of the mud without staining", has been loved by people since ancient times. Lotus raw to eat, crisp and tender and sweet, The Tang and Song Dynasties of the Eight Great Ways of Han Yu once praised its "cold than frost snow gan than honey, a piece of the entrance to the boils and healed", it can be seen that the lotus in ancient times has been widely accepted and loved by people, the edible value of the lotus can also be seen.
Summer is approaching, I have to mention the lotus root, it is a very good ingredient for the summer heat to cool off.
There are many ways to eat lotus, raw food needless to say, pick up and eat directly or squeeze into lotus juice can be; hot food, can be meat can be stuffed, a variety of.
It was hot and the cold dishes were starting to get popular, and so was my family. Buy a lotus root, mix it cold, crisp and delicious, my husband drank, I can also beauty and lose weight. When many people make cold mix lotus slices, the lotus will be black and not white, and the taste is not crisp, far less delicious than in the restaurant.
In fact, the cold mix lotus tablets are also tricky, pay attention to a few points, the lotus tablets are not black and crisp, especially delicious. Practices to share with you.
【Ingredients】: 1 lotus root, 3-4 cloves of garlic, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce or cold mix, 1 tablespoon of fruit vinegar, appropriate amount of oil and salt, a few drops of sesame oil, 1 spring onion (for decoration).
【Specific method】:
1. As usual, I will first tell you how to choose lotus. Lotus should choose the skin yellow-brown, the lotus body is thick and short, the two ends are closed without black and odorless, from the tip of the lotus, the second section of the lotus is the best, not old and will not be particularly tender and tasteless.
2, wash the lotus root, peel, cut into thin slices (do not cut into transparent slices, that is too thin, the taste is not good), cut well and immediately soaked in water to prevent oxidation in the air and blackening.
3, prepare ice water; take the boiling pot, boil the water, after the water is boiled, the lotus slices, blanch for no more than two minutes, and then fish out and put them into ice water to soak, so that the lotus slices are very crisp. However, one thing to note is that when blanching lotus tablets, do not use an iron pot, otherwise the lotus will become black, this is because some substances contained in the lotus can chemically react with iron ions, and stainless steel pots or glass pots can avoid this problem.
4: Peel and cut the garlic into minced garlic, heat the oil, and pour the minced garlic out of the aroma while it is hot.
5: Add soy sauce, fruit vinegar, salt and a little sesame oil and stir well. It is not recommended to add aged vinegar here, otherwise it will affect the color of the finished product.
6, then you can sprinkle some chopped shallots into it, the green onions are mainly decorative.
7: Drain the soaked lotus slices and put the beautiful yard on the plate.
8. Drizzle into the sauce we have prepared in front of us, and you can start. The color is as white as grease, crisp and delicious, not only good-looking, but also delicious.
Regarding the precautions of cold mix lotus tablets, I have highlighted in the process, I don't know if you have got it?
Finally, let's popularize some small knowledge about lotus. Lotus root has seven holes and nine holes, the starch content of seven holes of lotus is relatively high, so the moisture is relatively small, it is sticky and not crisp, not suitable for cold mixing and not suitable for raw food, suitable for soup. When cooking pork rib lotus root soup, remember to buy seven-hole lotus root instead of nine-hole lotus. Nine-hole lotus has a high moisture content, is crisp and juicy to eat, and is suitable for stir-frying and cold mixing. Knowing this, everyone knows what lotus to buy when making dishes.
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