Cooking method
The best way to cook bird's nest is to stew it on water with slow fire, but it is also important to prepare it in advance.
Cleaning bird's nest, mainly soaking. The water that has just been soaked for 1-2 hours should be poured out, and impurities such as Pteris multifida should be cleaned during this period; Then soak in clear water for 1-2 hours. At this time, it is necessary to control the amount of water soaked, generally to reach the surface of bird's nest. Finally, even the soaked water is stewed with slow fire to keep the original flavor and nutrition of bird's nest.
When bird's nest is badly needed, it can also be soaked in warm water for 30-40 minutes, but this quick method is not suitable for blood swallow.
The stewing time is determined by two factors. First, it depends on the quality of bird's nest itself, the thickness and humidity of bird's nest. It usually takes 6-8 hours. If it's a blood swallow, it takes twice as long. Second, it depends on people's physique. In order to facilitate absorption, the elderly, patients and other people with weak constitution spend more time stewing bird's nest than the conventional 1 hour, that is, 7-9 hours.
The best time is when the finished product is soft, smooth, elastic, glittering and translucent, and soft and continuous when clamped.
There are ways to eat.
Although there is only one cooking method for bird's nest, it is tasteless and can be eaten in various ways. Aishangchao bird's nest introduces several methods of stewing bird's nest in home cooking;
★ Stewed bird's nest with papaya
After the original papaya is cut in half, the capsule is removed and stewed with bird's nest and the water soaked in bird's nest, so that the taste of papaya can penetrate into bird's nest and be eaten with rock sugar water.
★ Dry fishing for blood swallows
Cook a pot of rich gravy soup in advance, then add bird's nest and cook together, stir evenly with slow fire, and scoop up the gravy when it is about to boil and eat it immediately. Broth is preferably chicken wing soup, or soup made of old hen, ribs and other meat.
★ Braised swallows in brown sauce
You also need a pot of rich abalone sauce, preferably until it is gelatinous (it can be accelerated by pressure cooker), and you can eat it with bird's nest, which is greasy.
★ Juice old bird's nest
As long as you squeeze your favorite vegetable juice and juice with a juicer in advance, or mix and stew bird's nest with dairy products as seasoning, you can eat it. This is the simplest way to eat bird's nest and one of the best ways to eat it in summer.
Clever bird's nest juice
As mentioned above, seasoning with fruit and vegetable juice and milk juice is the "highlight" of eating bird's nest in summer. Fruit and vegetable juice is easy to get, but I still eat something, but I don't eat anything.
Aishangchao Bird's Nest teaches you to make bird's nest juice: cantaloupe juice, watermelon juice, orange juice, coconut juice, plum juice, jujube juice, tomato juice, ginger juice, celery juice, carrot juice, big chinese cabbage juice, apricot juice, ginkgo juice, tangerine peel juice, milk, yogurt and so on. Generally, sugar or honey should be added to fruit juice to enhance sweetness.
Have you found that fruit juice is still the most common fruit and vegetable juice? Love the tide of bird's nest explained that there are many fruits and vegetables that make bird's nest juice, most of which are sweet or tasteless, because fruits and vegetables with fishy smell, spicy taste or great influence on the taste will soften the water of bird's nest and lose its soft and smooth taste. Fruit and vegetable juice is best seasoned with a single fruit, while milk juice is the opposite. Several kinds of milk are often mixed to increase the taste of milk, and it is best to use pure milk, three-flower weak milk, AD calcium yogurt and so on. Bird's Nest is not unique to China. As long as the nutrients are not in conflict, it can be eaten with western food or mixed with jelly.
It is hot in summer, and many people like to put bird's nest in the refrigerator and eat it after freezing. But it should be noted that it is not convenient and fast. Soak the bird's nest in cold water or put it in the refrigerator immediately after stewing, which will not only affect the appearance of bird's nest, but also soften its taste. So be sure to cool naturally.
Stewed bird's nest with bletilla striata
Basic materials: Bletilla striata 6-9g, bird's nest 6-9g, and appropriate amount of clear water.
Stewed bird's nest with bletilla striata is a nourishing product, which has the effects of nourishing lung and yin, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. People often use it to treat tuberculosis, hemoptysis, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma in the elderly and other diseases.
Food efficacy
Bletilla striata is the tuber of Bletilla striata in Orchidaceae. It tastes bitter and cold, and enters the lung meridian. Contains starch, glucose, volatile oil, mucus, mannan, etc. It has the function of tonifying lung and stopping bleeding, and is often used to treat hemoptysis caused by lung diseases. Gao Li, a famous doctor in Jin Dynasty, said it could "stop lung blood". Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan records that "treating tuberculosis hurts lung qi, tonifying lung deficiency, relieving cough, clearing tuberculosis and coughing up blood, and astringing lung qi". Modern pharmacological studies have proved that Bletilla striata has hemostatic effect, but its inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis is weak.
Bird's Nest is a nest built by Jin Siyan, an animal of Swift family, and many swallows of the same genus with saliva or saliva mixed fluff. Sweet and flat in nature. Enter the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. It contains protein, sugar, various amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur. Function: nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting qi and tonifying middle energizer. It is often used to treat consumption, cough, expectoration and asthma, hemoptysis and vomiting blood.
Components and usage
Use 6-9g of Bletilla striata and 6-9g of bird's nest each time. Add appropriate amount of water to the earthen pot, stew it in water until it is extremely rotten, filter to remove residue, add appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste, and stew for a while. Take 1 2 times a day.
Stewed bird's nest with coconut milk
Ingredients: one or two bird's nests, three spoonfuls of fresh coconut milk, fresh milk or light milk, and a little rock sugar.
Method: Soak and wash the bird's nest, put it in a stew pot with other ingredients, stew for about 40 minutes, add rock sugar, and stew for 5 minutes before eating.