What is tripe? Three steps to clean up easily!

Tripe is the cow's stomach and one of the cow's internal organs, which can not only be used as ingredients, but also can be used to cook hot pot, etc., so it is very popular with people, especially in hot pot restaurants, where tripe costs about 50 or 60 yuan a jin, so it can be seen that it is so expensive. what is tripe? How to clean it up?

What is tripe?

1. Tripe is actually the stomach of a cow, also known as the tip of the belly and hairy belly. It has high nutritional value and is a common ingredient in daily life. Some also like to cook hot pot to eat. For example, in some hot pot restaurants, it is very popular, and a plate costs about 60 or 70 yuan.

2. Tripe is the tip of his belly, which is divided into black and yellow, in which black is the cow that grows up on feed, and yellow is the one that grows up on grain crops, so yellow is more popular and expensive. But if you buy in the market, it is best to buy black, because the fresh beef clover is black, smells bad, and there is a black film on the surface that is not easy to remove. But some vendors in order to make tripe put longer, will use hydrogen peroxide, fire alkali, formaldehyde and other bleaching, and formaldehyde bleaching is toxic, so we should pay attention to the purchase.

3. Tripe is the cow's stomach, one of the four stomachs, namely, the rumen, the reticulum, the valvular stomach and the abomasum, among which the valvular stomach is tripe, which is similar to the stomachs of humans and pigs, which is called the true stomach, which has high edible value.

4. Tripe is tripe. In Guangdong, many people steam it as a snack when drinking tea, and often eat the effect of tonifying qi, nourishing blood and spleen and stomach, which is very suitable for people with deficiency of qi and blood and malnutrition.

Second, what will tripe do with it?

Fresh tripe is black, and it smells faint and inedible, so when you buy it back, you have to deal with the following. The specific treatment methods are as follows:

Step 1: rinse fresh tripe and cut them into large pieces, then put them into a basin and soak in boiling water for 3 minutes, and keep stirring with a stick to scald the black skin off to facilitate later bleaching. If it is convenient, you can use sharp things to scrape hard, so you can also scrape off the black film.

Step 2, remove and drain the scalded tripe, put it on the chopping board and sprinkle the right amount of salt and white vinegar, then rub the black film hard and rinse it with water. Of course, you can also add the right amount of salt, vinegar and corn flour to rub together for 15 minutes. After kneading twice, the black film above will be completely removed.

Step 3, put the treated tripe into the basin, soak in a small amount of alkaline water for a while, and then bleach it with hydrogen peroxide.

Generally speaking, tripe is a hairy belly, is one of the cow stomach, not only can be used as ingredients, but also can be used to cook hot pot. In addition, fresh tripe is black, so you should pay attention when buying. At the same time, tripe, who has just been bought, must go through three steps of scalding, kneading and bleaching to remove the black film and stench, so be careful and patient when handling it.