How to eat ginkgo nuts How to eat ginkgo nuts

Ginkgo nuts are a kind of food with extremely high nutritional value and excellent health care effects. However, many people have heard that ginkgo nuts are toxic, so they dare not eat ginkgo nuts blindly in life for fear of food poisoning. So how should ginkgo nuts be eaten? What are the correct ways to eat it? The following will introduce you to this knowledge.

How to eat ginkgo nuts

1. Grilled

Ginkgo nuts can be eaten roasted. If you have an oven at home, it will be very convenient when you want to eat ginkgo nuts. You can put a layer of tin foil on the baking tray of the oven, then put an appropriate amount of ginkgo nuts directly on the baking tray, put it in the oven, and bake it on high heat for 15 to 20 minutes. At this time, its shell will naturally crack. After taking it out, cool it down, remove the shell of the ginkgo nut, and then remove its seed buds, and then you can eat it directly.

2. Cook and eat

Ginkgo nuts can also be placed in a pot, added with water and cooked directly. When cooking ginkgo nuts, be sure to cook them thoroughly, so that some of the toxic components in the ginkgo nuts can be lost. Then when eating the cooked ginkgo nuts, you must also remove the shell and the implants, because the implants contain the most toxins. After removing them, the taste of the ginkgo nuts will improve and the toxicity will be reduced to a minimum.

How to eat ginkgo nuts

1. Make soup

Ginkgo nuts can be used to make soup. When making soup with ginkgo nuts, you need to prepare 7 to 10 ginkgo nuts, crack the shell, take out the kernels inside, grind them into fine powder, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and sesame oil, put them in a pot, add a small amount of water, heat to boil, and cook for 3 to 5 minutes. After taking out, put them in a bowl and eat them directly.

2. Cook porridge

Ginkgo nuts can also be used to cook porridge. When using ginkgo nuts, you need to prepare about 70 grams of rice, wash it clean, put it in the porridge pot, add appropriate amount of water and heat it to boil. In the process of cooking porridge, remove the shells of the prepared ginkgo nuts and mash them into small pieces. When the porridge in the pot is cooked to 80%, put the crushed ginkgo nuts directly into the pot and cook together. After about ten minutes, the ginkgo nuts in the pot will be cooked. At this time, add appropriate amount of white sugar to season, turn off the heat and take out to eat.