As the saying goes, "Pick lotus seeds in summer and dig lotus roots in winter." It is the right time to eat lotus roots in winter. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that after the lotus root is cooked, its nature and taste will change from cool to warm, and it has the effects of nourishing the stomach, nourishing yin, strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi. It is a good supplement for winter ecology. Lotus root stops bleeding without leaving stasis, which is especially suitable for women. Lotus root has a good beauty and skin care effect. It is not only rich in vitamin C, calcium and iron, but also polyphenols substances, which have antioxidant effects and can play a role in delaying aging and beauty and skin care. Women may wish to eat more. Below are 15 ways to eat lotus root
1. Sweet and Sour Lotus Root slices
Ingredients: lotus root, light soy sauce, vinegar , sugar , salt,
Steps: 1. Seasoning juice: One spoonful of light soy sauce, eleven spoons of vinegar, ten half spoons of sugar, ten half spoons of salt, ten half bowls of water
2. Cook the oil in the pot, add lotus root slices and stir-fry until the surface is slightly yellow, add the sauce, stir-fry evenly
2. Fried lotus root diced
Ingredients: 1 piece of lotus root, millet pepper, green onion slices sesame .
Method: 1. Cut the lotus root into boiling water and blanch it for 2 minutes, remove it and control the moisture.
2. Mix the sauce: a little salt, half a spoon of sugar, 3 spoons of light soy sauce, half a spoon of dark soy sauce, 1 spoon of vinegar, and 3 spoons of water.
3. Heat the oil in the pan and stir-fry the millet peppers, add the diced lotus root and stir-fry for about 2 minutes, pour in the prepared sauce and stir-fry evenly before leaving the pot, sprinkle in the scallion slices and sesame seeds and stir-fry evenly.
3. Cold lotus root slices
Ingredients: crispy lotus root, minced garlic, millet spicy, cooked white sesame, chopped green onion, coriander, light soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar
Method: 1. Peel and slice the crispy lotus root,
2. Boil water in the pot, put the lotus root in and cook it, and then cool it down after it is cooked. While the lotus root is cooked, you can prepare the sauce, cut the garlic into the millet spicy and chop it, put it in a bowl
4. Add cooked white sesame seeds in the bowl, and pour it on hot oil
5. Put 3 spoons of light soy sauce and 2 spoons of balsamic vinegar in the bowl, Half a spoonful of dark soy sauce, 1 spoonful of oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon of sugar, mix well
6. Cook the cold lotus root slices, add some coriander, pour the sauce in, mix well and start eating
4. Cold mixed fungus lotus root slices
Ingredients: fungus , lotus root, millet spicy, single-headed garlic , pepper, peanuts, cooking oil, light soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, coriander, fine sugar, salt
Method: 1. Soak the fungus in water for 20 minutes, wash the lotus root, peel and slice the garlic and millet spicy
2. Cold pot and cold oil, pour the peanuts and fry slowly over low heat until cooked, take it out and set aside.
3. Continue to pour cooking oil, add peppercorns, heat it low heat and stir-fry it, then remove the peppercorns, and pour the hot oil into a bowl of garlic and chili.
4. Add 3 spoons of light soy sauce, 2 spoons of rice vinegar, 1 spoon of sesame oil, 1/3 fine sugar and a little salt, and mix well.
5. Boil boiling water in the pot, add fungus and lotus root slices to cook for about 1 minute, and blanch the carrots and remove them.
6. Drop the good sauce into the ingredients, add coriander and peanuts and mix well.
5. Fried lotus root box
Ingredients: pork belly, chopped green onion, minced ginger, light soy sauce, cooking wine, oyster sauce, salt, thirteen spices, flour, starch, eggs
Method 1. Chop the pork belly into minced meat, put it in a bowl, add 1 spoon of minced green onion and ginger, 1 spoon of cooking wine, 1 spoon of light soy sauce, 1 spoon of oyster sauce, and stir evenly.
2.Make batter: Add 3 spoons of flour and 3 spoons of starch to the bowl, beat in an egg, add an appropriate amount of water, and stir into a paste.
3. Wash and peel the fresh lotus root, cut it into clip blades, fill it with meat filling, and wrap it with a layer of batter.Add oil to the pot, fry the pot at 60% oil temperature, fry until golden brown, and then fry again. Fry until the oil temperature rises again. Fry until the skin is crispy and remove it. Put it on the plate.
6. Fried lotus root slices
Ingredients: 2 sections of lotus root, appropriate amount of salt and salt powder,
Method: 1. Peel the lotus root and slice it, wash the starch, put it in hot oil and fry it in medium heat until dehydrated, turn it into golden and oil control, and remove it. 2. Sprinkle the fried lotus root slices with salt and salt powder
7. Fried lotus root slices
Ingredients: lotus root slices, green onion
Method: 1. Put the lotus root slices after slice Soak in water for about two minutes, soak out the powder on the surface, so that the fried lotus root is very crispy
2. Hot the oil and put the scallion slices into it, stir-fry
3. Add appropriate amount of salt and oyster sauce to season
8 Steamed lotus root balls
Ingredients: 1 section of lotus root, 200 grams of pork belly, 15 grams of ginger, 20 grams of green onion, 4 spoons of starch, 3 spoons of light soy sauce, 2 spoons of oyster sauce, appropriate amount of salt, a little pepper powder, appropriate amount of sugar
Method: 1. Wash the pork belly, peel and cut the lotus root into pieces, peel and wash the lotus root balls, cut into slices, place the small lotus root slices in another bowl, cut the scallion and chop the green onion and chop the ginger into pieces.
2. Put the pork belly into the cooking machine, use the cooking bar to beat it into meat foam, then put the lotus root slices in the large bowl into the cooking machine, then add chopped green onion and ginger, and make it into a paste together for later use 3. Pour the beaten meat foam and lotus root into a large bowl, beat in 1 egg, pour in 3 spoons of starch, 1 spoon of light soy sauce, 1 spoon of oyster sauce and a little salt, and stir in one direction until it is strong.
4. Take a small bowl, add 6 spoons of water, 2 spoons of light soy sauce, 1 spoon of oyster sauce, and a little sugar. Add a little water to the remaining 1 spoon of starch, and mix it into water starch for later use.
5. Take a plate, place the small lotus root slices on the bottom of the plate and then roll the prepared meat into small balls and place them on the lotus root slices. 6. Put appropriate amount of water in the steamer and bring to a boil, put the lotus root balls in and steam for 15 minutes to remove.
7. Pour the sauce into the pot, cook until bubbles, then pour the water starch into thin starch, pour the lace into thin starch, pour the lace sauce evenly on the lotus root balls, and then add coriander,
9. Mushroom lotus root soup
all the ingredients are in the pot for an hour, add salt to the pot, and add salt to the pot
10. Fried lotus root
Ingredients: lotus root, half a carrot, 1 green onion, 1 egg, 4 spoons of flour
Method: Peel and graze the lotus root, squeeze the excess water, put it in a bowl, add shredded carrots, scallions, a little spice powder, salt, 1 spoon of oyster sauce, mix well and dip it in your hand, and spread the batter into a bowl. Small cakes, heat the oil pan and fry them under low heat until both sides are golden
11. Fried lotus root meatballs
Ingredients: Pork, lotus root, carrot
Method: 1. Cut lotus root carrot meat into pieces and put it into the mixer
2. After crushing, add appropriate amount of chopped green onion salt chicken essence five-spice powder one spoonful of light soy sauce two chickens Mix a spoonful of eggs and mix well
3. Grab a handful of meat and squeeze it upwards in your hand and cut it into pieces with a spoon. It will be made into meatballs. Fry it at a temperature of 60% oil. Take it out.
12. Glutinous rice lotus root
Ingredients: lotus root, glutinous rice
Method: 1. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in clean water for 2-3 hours. Wash the lotus root and remove the skin.
2. Use a knife to cut off two or three centimeters at one end of the lotus root and the stems, and leave it as a lid. Mix the soaked glutinous rice with white sugar into the lotus root, and use chopsticks to make it stronger.
3. After putting glutinous rice in the lotus root eyes, cover the lotus root stem cover and secure the seal with a toothpick.
4. Prepare the seasonings and red dates for cooking lotus roots.
5. Put the brewed glutinous rice lotus into a pressure cooker, inject clean water and overflow the lotus root, add brown sugar and red dates to it, boil over high heat and turn to low heat and cook for another half an hour.
6. After half an hour, add rock sugar and cook over low heat for about a quarter of an hour.
7. Take out the cooked glutinous rice lotus and let cool it down and then slice it and eat it.
13. Peanut Lotus Root and Rib Soup
Ingredients: 1~2 sections of lotus root, ribs, peanuts, salt
Method: 1 Choose the lotus root to be thick and thick, and the soup stewed with old lotus root with a darker color makes it delicious. The lotus root tastes very pink. Peel and wash and cut into pieces for later use.
2. Wash the ribs, then put them in water and blanch them. Remove the foam and take them out for later use
3. Put lotus root, ribs, peanuts and shredded ginger into a pressure cooker, add appropriate amount of salt and water, cover the pot, and adjust the time. The soup will last at least 1 hour.
14. Corn lotus root rib soup
15. Lotus root glutinous rice meatballs
Ingredients: 300g pork glutinous rice 100g egg 1 lotus root and a little carrot, onion
Method: 1️Soak glutinous rice for four hours, add a little chopped green onion and an egg in one direction, stir evenly until strong.
2️. Mix the minced meat into rounds and wrap it with soaked glutinous rice. After the water is boiled, put it in a steamer, steam it over high heat for 30 minutes, sprinkle a little chopped green onion and decorate it~
