When winter comes, I believe many people are just like me and cannot do without soup! The busy farming season has passed, and it is time to take good care of your body. After a bowl of hot soup, your whole body will be warm. Drinking soup in winter is really a pleasure. Different personal tastes and different ingredients used in soup making. I like to use lotus root and like the chewyness and taste of lotus root, so it is always indispensable in my soup.
When it comes to the season for drinking soup, lotus roots begin to be snatched. Drinking soup is one of the reasons. Lotus roots have other uses. This seemingly inconspicuous thing is far more complicated than we think. You may not really understand it!
The "horizontal" part of the lotus
Speaking of lotus root, we have to talk about Water Lily Family plants. Lotus is a very representative plant of the Waterlily Family. Lotus may exist in some rural areas where ponds are built. Some scenic spots also plant it as an ornamental plant. This plant is a perennial aquatic herb with round leaves, shield-shaped and long stems. Lotus has white, red and pink colors. These are the characteristics of the lotus externally, which we can see with the naked eye. The lotus root we are going to talk about is the "invisible" part, that is, the rhizome of the lotus.
lotus root is at the bottom of the plant. It grows horizontally. Generally, it will be better to dig in autumn and winter. After the stems and leaves dry up, there will be no resistance to digging the lotus root. The obtained lotus root can be used as a raw material for dishes, just make soup or stir-fry.
Raw materials for making lotus root powder
lotus root powder is a convenient food that can be taken by brewing with boiling water. lotus root powder is made of lotus root. A friend from rural areas told me how to make it. First peel the lotus root and then squeeze out the juice. In order to squeeze the juice to a greater extent, the squeezed lotus root pieces are filtered with a sieve, then wrapped in gauze, and continue to squeeze out the juice. You can add water and continue to filter. During these processes, collect the juice in a container.
Wait until the juice settles, the white mud-like substance at the bottom is the lotus root powder we want. The subsequent operation is to collect lotus root powder, which can be canned after air-drying. It can be paired with other delicacies and tastes more delicious.
lotus root also has medicinal value
The " lotus root node " in traditional Chinese medicine is lotus root. After digging out the lotus root root, cut the nodes, wash it and dry it to form lotus root nodes. The lotus root root is not that simple. It can also be made into " lotus root node charcoal ", that is, stir-fry on the basis of lotus root nodes until the surface of the lotus root node is burnt black, and this medicinal material is formed like this. The book "Theory of Medicinal Properties" records lotus root nodes.
lotus root node is a good medicine for treating bleeding. There are some differences in the bleeding caused by lotus root node and lotus root node charcoal. The lotus root node is suitable for sudden bleeding. The more urgent ones are the kind. The lotus root node has a strong astringency and stronger hemostasis. The cold-type chronic bleeding is available, so the lotus root node is not that simple, and its value exceeds our cognition. After understanding the use of lotus root, it is not difficult to understand why lotus roots are so popular in winter, because they are easy to dig at this time. After digging, you can use it to make soup. The north wind blows, and it can be dried or made into medicinal materials.
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