How to peel the chicken head?

Chicken head fruit Nanjing people's traditional food it has a lot of medicinal value, love health Nanjing people of course like to eat chicken head fruit very much. This fruit looks like a chicken head, in fact, it is called Euryale fruit (locally called chicken head rice). It is a kind of herb of lotus family, and its fruit shell is similar to "chicken head". Its medicinal value is quite high.

You can peel it directly, or cook it over high heat for two or three minutes and peel off the shell automatically.

Peel off its strange shell, inside like a pomegranate covered with green fruit, and then peel off these green fruit, inside is edible "chicken head rice". Nanjing used to be rich in chicken head fruit, which, together with fish, water chestnut, lotus root, Zizania caduciflora, crab, shrimp and snail, formed Nanjing "Water eight Immortals".

How to eat chicken head fruit?

1. Eat raw

Chicken heads can be eaten raw, but normal people will cook them over high heat for more than 10 minutes and eat them when they are ripe. There is only one reason, that is, the shell is too hard, cook it and eat it while the shell is soft.

2. Cooked food

There are so many ways to cook it that you can use it instead of bean products to make dishes, such as cooking sweet soup with shelled nuts, or stir-frying shrimps with lilies and so on.