Lotus seeds contain many nutrients. For malnourished children, poor appetite, poor sleep, mentally unstable, eating lotus seed chicken porridge is extremely appropriate. This porridge has a sweet, fatty taste, so children will surely love it. Illustration. The method is also quite simple, you wash the glutinous rice and plain rice and soak it in water for about 30 minutes for the rice to bloom. If using fresh lotus seeds, remove the lotus heart to avoid bitterness. Wash green beans and soak in water for about 20 minutes. Chicken washed, boiled, shredded. Put rice, green beans, lotus seeds in and cook until the porridge is cooked, then scoop out into a bowl, add chicken, onions, coriander, and pepper to eat. Shrimp zucchini porridge On hot summer days, eating zucchini helps to cool down and reduce the harmful effects of the heat. Most children love to eat shrimp. This food is rich in protein, calcium and minerals, good for the development of children. The combination of zucchini and shrimp makes the porridge both nutritious and cool and attractive to children. First you clean the nest, remove the shell and chop it. Peel the squash, remove the intestines, wash, and slice thinly. Scallions, scallions are washed and finely chopped. Put the cooking oil in the pot, heat it up, fry the minced onion and garlic, add the shrimp shells and bring to a boil. Boil broth, remove foam and shrimp shells. Add the rice and cook until the porridge boils, then add the zucchini and cook until soft. Add shrimp meat and bring to a boil, then season to taste. Ladle the porridge into a bowl, add onions and cooking oil and mix well. Green bean brown rice porridge Mix brown rice and plain rice together and rinse well. Soak the rice in warm water for about 1 hour for the rice to swell. Bean sprouts washed. You put rice, bean sprouts, almonds, cashews in a pot of boiling water, then lower the heat. If the water in the pot is empty, you can add more water. When the rice is soft, add fresh milk and sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves. Then turn off the stove and enjoy. If the child is not used to eating raw, the mother can use a sieve or grind it.

On a food forum, reader Phan Hieu shared a recipe for savory pillow cakes from an oil-free fryer. This is a delicious cake, loved by gourmets, with a crispy crust, embracing the fragrant and rich filling. In restaurants, pillow cakes are often deep-fried in oil, which is easy to cause boredom and unsanitary. With a simple recipe from an oil-free fryer, you can make pillow cakes at home to ensure your health during the epidemic season. The ingredients for the crust are 200g of flour, 50g of rice flour, 5g of baking powder, 2 teaspoons of turmeric. You mix the mixture well by hand and pour in the water slowly, until the dough turns and dry, kneading continuously. The dough needs to be kneaded by hand to be smooth, not lumpy. Then, you put the mixture in a bowl, cover the dough in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. Indispensable ingredients for the filling include pureed meat, carrot, onion, black fungus, diced potato, shredded vermicelli, pork liver pate, 1 egg, and red onion. Spices for filling include pepper, salt, and seasoning powder, which are seasoned according to family taste. Mix well by hand to combine ingredients. You take out the dough after 1 hour in the refrigerator. If the dough is a bit dry, add a little water and continue kneading until the mixture is smooth. Then the dough is cut into equal parts. You can use a water bottle, roll the dough into a round piece, add a little oil, then add the filling and squeeze the cake. You double the shell, add a few eggs to the edge of the cake, arranged in a beautiful fan shape. All cakes after adding the filling are placed in the air fryer. First, you leave the pot at 160 degrees for 10 minutes to cook the filling first. Then you increase it to 200 degrees for 15 minutes to make the crust more crispy. The finished product is achieved when the crust is crispy, golden brown, the inner layer is still moist and cooked. Sweet and sour fish sauce is mixed in a 1:1:1 ratio (1 fish sauce, 1 sugar, 1 lemon). A little chili sauce, papaya salad, and carrots will help make the sauce more beautiful and flavorful. Pillow cake is arranged on a plate, served with some sour food, fresh vegetables, dipped in a bowl of dipping sauce. Bite a piece of cake, you will feel many layers of flavor. First, the crispy crust touches the tip of the tongue, then the filling is just mouth-watering, all mixed with sweet and sour fish sauce, fresh vegetables. Recipe for making chicken pillow cake In addition to the traditional way of making pillow cakes with pork, wood ear… you can customize the dish with chicken with delicious and attractive curry powder.

Ca Mau dried shrimp is delicious because it is made from fresh shrimp living under the mangrove canopy. Ngoc Hien district, which has an area of ​​about 21,000 hectares of shrimp farming land under the canopy of mangroves and mangroves in 2011, was recognized by the Department of Intellectual Property (Ministry of Science and Technology) for the collective mark “Rach Goc Dried Shrimp. “. According to local people, the profession of making dried shrimp in Rach Goc town, Ngoc Hien district has been around for hundreds of years. In the beginning, people boiled shrimp and dried them with the aim to preserve them longer. But when dried shrimp products were exchanged, bought and sold, people gradually became known, sought to buy and buy and create a brand. In Ngoc Hien district gradually formed establishments specializing in the processing of dried shrimp and increasingly developed. There are some establishments that have adopted processing technologies to increase productivity and better product quality. The processing of dried shrimp is not too complicated. After being purchased, the raw shrimp will be classified to boil for about 15 – 17 minutes. Boiling with hot steam or boiling water directly must also ensure that it is tightly covered so that the shrimp shells swell to break the shell. Good sun exposure for 8 hours will dry. Then, the shrimp are dried for about 30 minutes to make the shells crispy and easy to separate. Shrimp shelling or sorting is also done by machine. After that, workers reclassify them once to ensure even shrimp size. “Rach Goc dried shrimp” has 2 types: marine shrimp and square shrimp. Dried shrimp made from land shrimp, naturally raised silver shrimp in square is better. The best dried shrimp are made from wild shrimp. This dried shrimp has a brighter red color, even juices and is sweeter than all other dried shrimp. Ca Mau dried shrimp has been known nationwide for a long time. Dry shrimp production establishments in Ngoc Hien district are always in a state of “not doing enough to sell”. In February 2021, the Vietnam Record Organization recognized that the product “Rach Goc Dried Shrimp” was among the top 100 specialty gifts of our country./.

When processing shrimp, you should not season too much because shrimp already has a natural sweet taste, plus they are quite soft, so it is not necessary to add too many different spices, making the shrimp taste overwhelmed. completely. Women just need to add a little salt and pepper to get a delicious dish. Illustration. Shrimp thawed incorrectly Food, especially meat, fish and seafood, if thawed incorrectly for a few hours, will contain up to 10 billion germs / 1 gram of food at room temperature. Two common methods are quick thawing and slow thawing. Microwave Fast defrosting: The advantage is that it is quick, but susceptible to infection if you do not cook it immediately or freeze it. Take the right amount of time to avoid overcooking. Thawing time for small shrimp is about 30 seconds and large shrimp is about 1 minute. Slow defrosting: remains the best method for food flavor and texture and minimizing contamination. Thawing frozen shrimp is best kept overnight in a sieve. Limit direct immersion of shrimp in water, because shrimp will soak in water and affect muscle strength. If you are processing shrimp, you should avoid soaking the shrimp, because oil will cause burns during frying. Cook shrimp for too long Fish and seafood cook much faster than meat and poultry. The muscles in seafood are made up of bundles of fibrous protein cells. In seafood, however, these bundles are much shorter and the connective tissue that holds them together is much thinner. Overcooked shrimp will be difficult to peel, the meat will chewy and reduce the sweetness. Do not cook shrimp shells and heads Maybe you didn’t know: The head and shells of the shrimp help retain the most flavor of shrimp and also contain a lot of calcium. Keeping the shells of shrimp while cooking will help the shrimp dish taste sweet and fragrant. In addition, the shrimp head can also be used to cook various types of soup such as gourd soup, squash soup, and melon soup. To get the most out of the head, including the antennae, you just need to remove the shrimp feces. Then puree the shrimp, filter the water and use that water to cook the soup as usual. The soup is guaranteed to be sweet and very “bring rice”! In general, it only takes you a few minutes to process shrimp, namely: Boiling: When boiling shrimp depending on size: small and medium shrimp takes 3-4 minutes, large shrimp takes 5-8 minutes. When ripe shrimp look a bit cloudy, some will float on top. Bake: Great for large shrimp and seafood. For added flavor, you can marinate with a little fish sauce, salt, and pepper. Baking time takes 3-4 minutes and remember to stir shrimp while baking. Pan: Use 1 teaspoon of butter or olive oil, cooking oil in the pan, add a little seasoning, depending on you. Let the fire just turn continuously, the shrimp turn to a beautiful red color that is ripe, you will take 3-5 minutes. Frying: Flour roll shrimp, shrimp wrapped with rice or potatoes need a crispness and a golden color. Fry at a temperature of about 190 degrees Celsius, for about 3-5 minutes, depending on the size of the shrimp, the amount of oil and the temperature. Steaming: Put some seasoned shrimp into the steaming tube, depending on the quantity and size of shrimp, it will take about 3-5 minutes.

The head is the waste-bearing part of the shrimp and accumulates many heavy metals such as arsenic. So we should not eat shrimp heads. For pregnant women, the toxicity of arsenic heavy metals is often very strong, eating a lot can lead to fetal defects or miscarriage. Big shrimp need clean processing, remove the head to ensure safety.

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To gain weight, people often pump brine shrimp, even glixerin – substances from fat hydrolysis. The impurities pumped shrimp is a suitable medium for bacteria to grow.

If you eat this type of shrimp, you will be at risk of poisoning, dangerous diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, typhoid, digestive disorders.

In addition to the first part, when buying shrimp, mothers need to observe whether the shrimp’s legs are still attached to the body or not, the shrimp meat must be firm. In addition, you should not choose to buy shrimp whose legs have turned black as this is a sign that they are no longer fresh.

Note when processing and eating shrimp

Do not process shrimp in combination with vegetables, tubers and fruits rich in vitamin C. When vitamin C meets toxins available in shrimp, it will spread leading to food poisoning.

Everyone thinks, shrimp shells contain a lot of calcium. However, this is not true. Shrimp shells are hard due to the main component of chitin, a polymer that makes up the shell for most crustaceans. The main source of calcium for shrimp is from shrimp meat. In addition, the shells of some shrimp species are relatively difficult to digest, absolutely not for children to eat because they are prone to choking.

In addition, the black or white thread on the back of the shrimp (also called the shrimp thread) is the digestive tract of the shrimp that contains the stomach and colon. This route is usually only seen in large shrimp. Eating shrimp sugar is not harmful to health, because the bacteria in shrimp thread die at high temperatures when cooked. However, you should remove the shrimp sugar to make the dish cleaner and more secure.

Use your hands to feel the shrimp, the first thing that can help housewives recognize it best is the softness of the shrimp. The impurities pumped shrimp body is usually fat, abnormally stretch, especially the joint between the head and body, so fat that the bones on the body are almost stretched.

The impurities pumped shrimp often have hard gills. Meanwhile, the ordinary shrimp without impurities has a soft and curved body.

Shrimp impurities pumped out their tail, protruding their head, and prickly spines

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Only with the naked eye you can immediately recognize the chemically pumped shrimp with the superficial features. The impurities pumped shrimp often spread their tail, protruding head, and prickly spines, while the clean shrimp is often the opposite of the above characteristics.

When processing shrimp, there is often a lot of water flowing

Shrimp pumping impurities when cooking will melt a lot of water, shrimp meat shrinks. When the meat is eaten, the taste is paler than normal shrimp. If the shrimp is jelly pumped into you, when cooked, you peel off the shell of the shrimp, you will easily see the jelly layer between the meat and shrimp shell, especially at the top and bottom of the gills.

Before the situation of shrimp being pumped with impurities, or the residue of antibiotics is forbidden to exceed the threshold …, consumers need to be vigilant and very alert when choosing this type of seafood.

The secret to buying iron shrimp

Although iron shrimp is smaller in size compared to other shrimp, it has a delicious taste and a sweet and rich taste when processed.

• When choosing to buy iron shrimp, you should also choose to buy fresh, raw shrimp, the body is white pink and the shrimp legs are still attached to the body.

• If you see iron shrimp with a dark pink color, this shrimp has been preserved for a long time, rotting and the quality has been greatly reduced.

The secret to buying fresh shrimp (sea shrimp)

• Shrimp has a thin shell, soft and smaller head than tiger shrimp, but is rich in nutrients and has a natural sweet taste.

• When choosing to buy black shrimp, you should buy live shrimp, jumping, the body of shrimp is pink and white, with blue eyes.

• Do not choose to buy dead crayfish, the shells are dark pink.