Recommended cooking methods for bamboo fungus

I think no one can resist the temptation of delicious food, especially some girls who like to eat sweets. In fact, I have always liked to cook and eat by myself. I enjoy the process and feel a sense of accomplishment. Today I will recommend several ways to cook bamboo fungus, which is also my specialty:

Bamboo fungus and chicken soup

This is really a very simple dish, as long as the ingredients are good enough - real old hens raised in the wild, and no heavier than three pounds.

After pluck the feathers, clean out the internal organs, remove the chicken butt and wash the chicken body, boil water first, immerse the whole old hen in the boiling water to remove the bloody smell, take it out and rinse it.

Fill the casserole with water at once, put in the old hen, add a piece of chopped ginger and a small spoon of cooking wine, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat. When stewing the chicken, to prevent the soup from overflowing, you can put two bamboo chopsticks on the casserole and cover the pot. After about three hours, the chicken soup has turned golden yellow. At this time, you can cut the bamboo fungus that has been soaked in water into sections, put it in the chicken soup, and stew it again. After the bamboo fungus is fully soaked in the flavor of the chicken soup, add salt according to your personal taste, turn off the heat, sprinkle a little chopped green onion to enhance the flavor, and it is ready to serve.

Key points: Do not break the chicken skin when blanching the chicken; soak the bamboo fungus in water for a while to remove the strange smell, do not put too much bamboo fungus, otherwise it will take away the flavor of the chicken soup; if there is a lot of fat in the old hen's stomach, dig out some of it and throw away, especially in the summer for those who like light food.

Bamboo fungus and red snail soup

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and improves eyesight, warms the middle and tonifies the kidneys.

Source: A Complete List of Healthy Soups and Vegetables

Source: Chinese Medicinal Soup Recipe

Ingredients: 400 grams of red snail meat, 50 grams of pea sprouts, 10 grams of bamboo fungus, and appropriate amounts of cooking wine, salt, MSG, and scallion segments.

Preparation method: Wash and slice the red snail meat, blanch it in boiling water and remove it. Soak the bamboo fungus in clean water until soft, wash off the mud and sand, cut off the two ends, rinse it with clean water until it turns white, remove it and cut it into sections. Remove the impurities from the pea sprouts and wash them. Add clean water to a pot, add bamboo fungus, cooking wine, refined salt, and snail slices, bring to a boil, add pea sprouts and green onion segments, cook for a while, add MSG and remove from the pot.

Usage: 1 to 2 doses per week, taken in several times, with no limit on dosage.

Note: Red snail meat is rich in protein, inorganic salts and multiple vitamins, sweet and cool in nature, and has the effect of clearing away heat and improving eyesight. When paired with bamboo fungus, a mountain delicacy, it is not only delicious but also has high nutritional value.

Indications: Weak spleen and stomach, neurasthenia, blurred vision, etc.