Cold lotus root slices, blanching directly is wrong! These two tips to know are better than what the restaurant makes

——[Cold Lotus Root Slices]——

Ingredients: 1 lotus root, 2 millet peppers, 2 chives, 3 garlic cloves, 15 grams of rice vinegar, 2 grams of sugar, 3.5 grams of salt, appropriate amount of oil

[Here's how]:

Step 1: Wash the lotus root with the skin, peel off the skin, cut it into 0.2cm slices with a knife, prepare a larger basin, add water and two spoons of white vinegar, and soak the lotus root slices for 10 minutes

Step 2: During this period, cut the ingredients, cut the chives into minced pieces, separate the green onion white and green onion leaves, pat the garlic and cut it into fine pieces, and then cut two millet pepper rings, with a little spicy, I feel better

Step 3: Boil the water in the pot, drain the soaked lotus root and pour it into the pot, blanch the water for one minute, the lotus root is cut thin enough, the time is too long, and the taste is not good

Step 4: Take out the blanched lotus root, soak it in ice water, cool it down thoroughly, expand and shrink it hot, and after a little ice water, the taste of the lotus root is particularly crisp

Step 5: Remove the lotus root slices and place them on a plate, put the millet pepper, green onion and minced garlic, and pour the oil that burns until it smokes to bring out the aroma of the ingredients

Step 6: Then pour the salt, sugar and vinegar mixed in advance, and finally sprinkle with green onion leaves! As long as you master the following two tips, the lotus root slices you make will be more delicious than those in the restaurant

Highlights:

1. Do not blanch the lotus root directly after it is cut, and be sure to soak it in vinegar water before putting it into the pot, which can prevent the oxidation of the lotus root and will not turn black

2. If you want the taste of lotus root to be more crisp, then the blanching time should not be too long, and there is ice water, the principle of heat expansion and cold contraction, it is difficult to have a small taste and not be brittle!