How to eat golden cicada flowers? How to eat golden cicada flowers

Golden cicada flower is a health-care Chinese medicinal material. It can be eaten as a food ingredient. It can nourish the body and improve the body's immunity. However, golden cicada flower is relatively rare in the market. Many people are not familiar with it and don't know how to eat it. For this reason, I have summarized the ways to eat golden cicada flower, and now I write it down to share with you.

How to eat golden cicada flowers? How to eat golden cicada flowers

1. Golden cicada flowers can be soaked in water to drink

The simplest and most convenient way to eat golden cicada flowers is to soak them in water and drink them. You can take three golden cicada flowers, put them in a container, add appropriate amount of cold water to soften them, then remove the hard shell on the outside, wash them with clean water, put them in a soup pot, add clean water, and steam them in a pot. Steam them for forty minutes after the water boils. After steaming, take them out and eat them.

2. Golden cicada flowers can be used to make soup

Making soup with golden cicada flowers is also a common way to eat it. When making it, you can take five golden cicada flowers, half a local chicken, add an appropriate amount of red dates, and then add ginger and cooking wine, stew them together. After stewing, add table salt for seasoning. After mixing well, take out the meat and drink the soup.

3. Golden cicada flowers can be used to make porridge

Cooking cicada flowers into porridge is also a common way to eat it. Usually, you can add 5 grams of cicada flowers to 3 grams of Poria cocos, 3 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus and 80 grams of black rice. After washing them with clean water, add the clean water into the pot and cook them into porridge. When the porridge is about to be served, add appropriate amount of white sugar to season it.