Dried lotus seeds have a hard texture and take a long time to cook. Ordinary iron pot cooking is generally about 1~2 hours. If cooked in a pressure cooker, it will take 30~40 minutes.

Tips for cooking lotus seeds: Lotus seeds are difficult to cook. Put it in the refrigerator for a day first, then take it out and cook it, which is easy to rot.

You don't need a pressure cooker to cook lotus seeds. Just cook for 5 minutes, then turn off the fire and put it on the stove. The pot is slightly cold, and the fire is boiled. Repeat for three times.

Do you want to soak the lotus seeds before cooking? It is best not to soak lotus seeds before cooking. If you want to soak, you can only soak for about 10 minutes, because the lotus seeds will not rot if you soak for too long. So when we make lotus seed soup, we can clean the lotus seeds and put them directly into the pot, so that the cooked lotus seeds are not only not easy to rot, but also powdery to eat.

3 Do you need to worry about lotus seed soup? This is determined according to your personal preference.

1, lotus seed soup can be pitted. Lotus seeds taste bitter. They are used to make soup after removing the core, and the taste will not be very bitter, but it doesn't matter if they are not removed. Lotus seeds have the function of removing fire. If you cook soup together, the effect of clearing heat and removing fire will be better.

2, lotus seed core tastes bitter and cold. If it is used to make soup, although it has the effect of clearing away heat and removing fire, it is not suitable for people with weak constitution and cold stomach. Eating too much can easily cause abdominal pain, diarrhea and other discomfort.

4 tremella lotus seed soup is added with sugar too early, and the water in lotus seeds will decompose too early, so lotus seeds will dry, so it is difficult to cook. It is best to add sugar in the last 5- 10 minutes, so the sugar will be more delicious.