How to preserve chicken heads

Chicken head fruit scientific name Euryale fruit, commonly known as chicken head rice, is a kind of aquatic plant for many years, which can be eaten raw or cooked, or can be used as medicine, with the effect of invigorating the spleen and kidney. It is the season for chicken head fruit to mature and appear on the market before the Mid-Autumn Festival. So how to preserve the chicken head fruit?

How to preserve the chicken head fruit?

Fresh chicken heads can only be preserved for up to 3 to 4 hours at room temperature, because they have a lot of moisture after plucking away. When placed at room temperature, the water will evaporate, change color and give off a rotten smell. So the best way is to put the chicken heads in the freezer and freeze them. Usually a vacuum bag is taken and evenly filled with 1:1 water and chicken head fruit, sealed and put into the freezer for quick freezing. The next time it is thawed, it is still fresh.

Peel off the strange shell of the chicken head fruit, and it is covered with green fruit like a pomegranate, 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".