Bird's Nest Porridge

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[How to eat it] - What is the best way to eat bird's nest

Although there is only one way to cook bird's nest, bird's nest is tasteless and can be eaten in many different ways. Master Chen introduced several ways to cook bird's nest at home:

★Papaya stewed bird's nest】——How to eat bird's nest best

Cut the whole papaya in half, remove the sac, and stew it with the bird's nest and the water used to soak the bird's nest. Let the flavor of the papaya seep into the bird's nest. Serve with rock sugar water.

★Dry-cooked blood bird's nest】——How to eat bird's nest best

First, prepare a thick gravy soup, then add the bird's nest and cook it together. Stir well over a low heat, and when the gravy is about to dry up, remove it and serve. The best gravy soup is wing soup, or soup made from old hens, ribs and other meats.

★ Braised bird's nest

You also need a pot of rich abalone sauce, which is best boiled until it becomes gelatinous (a pressure cooker can be used to speed up the process), then mix in bird's nest and you can eat it. It has a relatively greasy taste.

★Bird's nest with juice

Just use a juicer to squeeze your favorite vegetable juice or fruit juice, or use dairy products as seasoning, and mix it with the stewed bird's nest. This is the simplest way to eat it, and it is also one of the best ways to eat bird's nest in summer.

Juice with Bird's Nest

As mentioned in the above eating method, eating bird's nest with vegetable and fruit juice or milk is the "highlight" of eating bird's nest in summer. Vegetable and fruit juice can be easily obtained, but there are still some things to eat and some things not to eat.

Master Chen listed the juices that can be used 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, cabbage juice, apricot juice, ginkgo juice, tangerine peel juice, milk, yogurt, etc. Juices are usually added with sugar or honey to enhance the sweetness.

Have you noticed that most of these fruit and vegetable juices are fruit juices? Master Chen explained that there are many fruits and vegetables used to make bird's nest juice, and most of them are sweet or tasteless, because fruits and vegetables with fishy, ​​spicy or strong taste impact will make the bird's nest soft and lose its soft and smooth taste. It is best to season fruit and vegetable juice with a single fruit, while dairy juice is the opposite, often requiring a mixture of several types of milk to increase the milk flavor. It is best to use pure milk, Sanhua evaporated milk, AD calcium yogurt, etc. Bird's nest is not only Chinese, so you can also add Western food to it, mix it with jelly, etc., as long as there is no conflict in the nutritional ingredients.

In the hot summer, many people like to put bird's nests in the refrigerator before eating. But be careful not to soak them in cold water or put them in the refrigerator immediately after stewing them for the sake of convenience. This will not only affect the appearance of the bird's nest, but also make it soft in taste. So make sure to let it cool naturally.

Stewed Bird's Nest with Rock Sugar and Chinese Wolfberry Balls

Ingredients: 3 grams of bird's nest, 6 grams of wolfberry, 6 grams of longan meat, and 30 grams of rock sugar.

practice

(1) Soak the bird’s nest in water, remove the bird’s feathers with tweezers, and tear it into strips.

(2) Wash wolfberries and longan pulp thoroughly.

(3) Pour the bird’s nest, Chinese knotweed, longan pulp and 1 bowl of boiling water into a stewing pot, cover the pot and stew it in water.

(4) After the water in the pot boils, simmer over medium heat for 1 hour. Add rock sugar and simmer over low heat for another hour.

(5) Take out the stew after it is done and drink it while it is still warm.

Efficacy: Nourishes blood and nourishes the skin, moistens the lungs and relieves cough.

Indications: palpitations, insomnia, dizziness.

[Baiji stewed bird's nest] - How to eat bird's nest best

Basic ingredients: 6 to 9 grams of white hyacinth, 6 to 9 grams of bird's nest, appropriate amount of water

Bird's nest stewed with white hyacinth is a nourishing tonic that can nourish the lungs and yin, stop coughing and stop bleeding. It is commonly used by the public to treat hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis in the elderly, emphysema, asthma and other diseases.

【Food Effects】

Bletilla striata is the tuber of Bletilla striata, an orchid plant. It is bitter, sweet and cool in nature and enters the lung meridian. It contains starch, glucose, volatile oil, mucus, mannan, etc. It has the function of nourishing the lung and stopping bleeding, and is often used to treat coughing and bleeding caused by lung diseases. Li Gao, a famous doctor in the Jin Dynasty, said that it can "stop lung bleeding". "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" records that it "treats tuberculosis and damages lung qi, nourishes lung deficiency, stops coughing, clears tuberculosis and coughs blood, and astringes lung qi". Modern pharmacological research has proved that Bletilla striata has a hemostatic effect and a weak inhibitory effect on tuberculosis bacteria.

Bird's nest is a nest made by the swiftlet and other swallows of the same family using saliva or a mixture of saliva and down. It is sweet and neutral in nature. It enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. It contains protein, sugar, various amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, etc. It nourishes yin and moistens dryness, replenishes qi and tonifies the middle. It is often used to treat consumptive tuberculosis, cough, phlegm and asthma, hemoptysis and vomiting blood.

[Quantity and Usage]

Each time, you can use 6 to 9 grams of white hyacinth and 6 to 9 grams of bird's nest, put them in a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water, stew them until they are very soft, filter out the residue, add appropriate amount of rock sugar for seasoning, and stew for a while. Take 1 to 2 times a day.