The shell of dried lotus seeds is hard and smooth, and the method of shelling lotus seeds is as follows: add 1000 ml of water to the pot to boil, add 25 g of edible alkali and stir evenly, then add 250 g of dried lotus seeds, cover the pot and simmer with low heat, and then rub the lotus seeds repeatedly in the pot with something similar to a kitchen broom until the lotus seeds are shelled (the action must be fast, because the lotus seeds will rise after a long time).

But in the local area, there is also an indigenous method, which is to remove a large number of lotus seed shells. To sum up, it is mainly the following steps;

Boil first, boil the rice soup, pour in the dried lotus seeds, and cook until the pot rises slightly to drain the rice soup.

2, coarsening: heating the cooked lotus seeds into plant ash or fine carbon ash, uniformly wrapping them in the fine carbon ash, and then stacking for one hour to dry them.

Third, chop, grab lotus seeds in one hand and hold a knife in the other. First cut off the two ends of the lotus seed, then cut off the middle part, and a lotus seed with a shell will come out.

This is the trilogy of chopping lotus seeds.

But in fact, soaking lotus seeds in cold water for a period of time can directly open the shell of lotus seeds, just a little slower.

But this can't be directly used for cooking, and a layer of red inside must be removed; You must also go to the lotus plumule inside to use it for cooking or soup.

1. Decolorization method: Boil water in a pot, add edible alkali and lotus seeds, check the boiling situation while cooking until the red color can be easily separated from lotus meat, then let the arm be chilled with clear water, and stir constantly when chilled, and then take it out after the skin is completely removed.

2. Boil the lotus seeds without red in hot water until the shower head is slightly open. When the lotus seeds are slightly dry, use a bamboo stick to pop the lotus plumule from the bottom of the lotus seeds, and the lotus seeds can be directly cooked in the pot.

Extended data

1, there are two methods, as follows:

(1) Cooking method: Boil the water, then put the lotus seeds in the pot and cook until soft.

(2) Acidification method, the shell of lotus seed is a layer of fibrous tissue, which can be soaked in vinegar at home.

2. Lotus seed, the scientific name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried and mature seed of Nelumbo nucifera in Nymphaeaceae. Distributed in northern and southern provinces of China. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stopping leukorrhagia, tonifying kidney, astringing essence, nourishing heart and tranquilizing mind. Commonly used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, increased leucorrhea and nocturnal emission palpitation and insomnia.

3. Morphological characteristics: Lotus seeds are slightly oval or spherical, with a length of 1, 2~ 1, 8cm and a diameter of 0,8 ~1,4cm. The surface is yellowish brown to reddish brown, with thin longitudinal stripes and wide veins. The center of one end is papillary, dark brown, with many cracks and slightly concave periphery. It's hard. The seed coat is thin and not easy to peel. Two cotyledons, yellow and white, thick, with a gap in the middle and green lotus plumule. Odorless, sweet and slightly astringent.

4. Perennial aquatic herbs; Rhizomes are transverse, hypertrophy, swollen internodes, with many longitudinal airways inside, constricted internodes, black scales at the top and hairy adventitious roots at the bottom. The leaves are round, shield-shaped, with a diameter of 25-90 cm, the whole edge is slightly wavy, the upper surface is smooth and powdery, and the lower veins shoot out from the center, with 1-2 branches; Petiole is stout, cylindrical, 1-2 meters long, hollow, with scattered thorns outside.

5. Pedicels and petioles are the same length or slightly longer, and small thorns are scattered; Flower diameter 10-20cm, beautiful and fragrant; Petals are red, pink or white, oblong and oval to obovate, 5 5- 10/0cm long and 3-5cm wide, tapering from outside to inside, sometimes becoming stamens, and the apex is blunt or slightly pointed; Anthers are long, filaments are slender and inserted under receptacle; The style is very short, and the top of the column is born; The receptacle (lotus house) is 5- 10 cm in diameter. Nuts are oval or ovoid, long 1.8-2.5 cm, hard leathery and dark brown when mature; Seeds (lotus seeds) are ovoid or ovoid, with a length of 1, 2- 1, 7 cm and a red or white seed coat. The flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from August to June.