Autumn, eat fewer oranges and bananas, eat more of it, expel dampness, nourish the spleen and stomach, and help with sleep!
Autumn is a season of harvest, various fruits are on the market, such as apples, bananas, oranges, and oranges, as well as red water chestnuts, lotus roots, water caltrops, and fox nuts, and many other delicacies are on the market. These are treasures of our southern water town, especially the fox nuts, known as the “ginseng in water”, and are collectively known as the “eight immortals in water” along with the red water chestnuts and lotus roots. Fox nuts, we call them chicken head rice because their fruits are shaped like chicken heads and are named after them. Although their appearance is slightly ugly, their nutritional value is very high. Fox nuts are rich in protein, various vitamins, as well as calcium, iron, selenium, and other trace elements, polysaccharides, and other nutrients. After consumption, they have the effect of expelling dampness, nourishing the spleen and stomach, and calming the mind for better sleep. In autumn, we can reduce the consumption of sweeter foods like bananas and oranges, and instead, consume more nutritionally valuable fox nuts.
Fox nuts are a natural treasure of autumn. If you haven’t tried them, you must taste them. Ouyang Xiu’s seven-character ancient poem “Feeling of Eating Fox Nuts for the First Time” describes it as “fragrant, new, and full, picked by hand, the clean jade ground is soft and beautiful.” “Competing guests in the garden pick new buds, like opening pearls from the bottom of the sea.” It describes the scene of people picking fox nuts at that time. It can be seen that at that time, fox nuts, like water chestnuts, were widely planted in the water’s edge lakes and ponds of southern Jiangnan, and were a seafood fruit that people would eat at the end of summer and beginning of autumn. They are not only highly nutritious but also have a superb taste. Today, let me share three delicious ways to cook fox nuts!
First method: 【Fox Nut Coix Seed Chinese Yam Soup】
Main ingredients: fox nuts, coix seeds, Chinese yam, goji berries.
Seasonings: rock sugar.
Method: 1. Wash and soak the coix seeds, peel the snow-white fruits of the fox nuts, wash and peel the Chinese yam, and wash the goji berries.
2. Put the fox nuts, coix seeds, Chinese yam in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer until the ingredients are soft and cooked.
3. Bring to a boil, add rock sugar and goji berries, cook until the rock sugar melts, then remove from heat.
Second method: 【Stir-Fried Fox Nuts with Shrimp】
Main ingredients: fox nuts, shrimp, green and red bell peppers.
Seasonings: cooking oil, salt, scallions, ginger, cooking wine.
Method: 1. Thaw the shrimp, marinate with scallions, ginger, cooking wine, and salt to remove any fishy smell. Cook the fox nuts and cut them into pieces after washing. Cut the bell peppers into small pieces after washing. Wash and cut the scallions and ginger.
2. Heat cooking oil in a wok, stir-fry the scallions and ginger until fragrant, then add the shrimp and stir-fry until they change color. Remove from the wok. Stir-fry the bell peppers until partially cooked, then add the fox nuts and shrimp, mix well.
3. Stir well, season with salt, add a little water, bring to a boil, then remove from heat.
Third method: 【Soft and Glutinous Fox Nut Cake】
Main ingredients: fox nuts, glutinous rice flour.
Seasonings: brown sugar, white sugar.
Method: 1. Wash the fox nuts, drain, grind them into powder in a food processor, mix with glutinous rice flour, take out a portion, add white sugar, mix well; another portion, add brown sugar, mix well, then add warm water, mix until it forms a soft lump that disperses when gently pushed.
2. Divide the portion mixed with white sugar in half, sift half at the bottom, then sift the portion mixed with brown sugar, then add the remaining half mixed with white sugar on top, steam until cooked.
3. When there is a rice fragrance coming out, it is cooked. If there is no fragrance, it is not yet cooked. Do not lift the lid repeatedly during the steaming process as it will reduce the temperature. When it is cool enough to handle, remove, slice it thinly onto a plate, and it’s ready to eat – soft, glutinous, and sweet – especially delicious!
That’s it for sharing three delicious ways to cook fox nuts. Friends, how do you cook fox nuts to make them taste the best? Do you have any other recommended methods? Feel free to leave a comment in the comments section, and share with others. Due to limited culinary skills, please give me more advice.
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