How to peel water chestnuts and eat them correctly

Water chestnut is an ingredient we often see. It has crispy skin and delicious flesh. After being cooked, you can peel it and eat it, or cook it with rice. It is very suitable for eating at home and is very easy to buy. However, the shell of water chestnut makes many people stay away from it. Next, let’s learn how to peel the shell of water chestnut.

How to peel water chestnuts? We like to eat water chestnuts very much, because they taste very good and fragrant, but we often encounter a problem, that is, water chestnuts are too difficult to peel. In fact, there are some tricks to peeling raw water chestnuts. Let us first understand what water chestnuts are, and know the nutritional value and functions of water chestnuts. If we don’t know that water chestnuts have so many benefits, we may not even have the desire to peel them.

In fact, water chestnut is not the corner of water chestnut but the fruit of water chestnut. Water chestnut has very high nutritional value and can bring a lot of help to our body. Water chestnut is rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids. Water chestnut can play a diuretic and thirst-quenching role, as well as relieve alcohol and detoxify. Water chestnut can also strengthen the spleen and stomach and fight cancer.

Water chestnut, also known as waist water chestnut, water chestnut and water chestnut fruit, is sweet, flat and non-toxic. It is the fruit of the annual herbaceous aquatic plant water chestnut. The skin of water chestnut is crispy and the meat is delicious. It can be eaten after steaming and boiling, and can also be made into porridge.

Water chestnuts are rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids, and a variety of vitamins and trace elements. It has the effects of diuresis, lactation, thirst quenching and alcohol detoxification

How to peel water chestnuts:

1. Wash and peel one portion of raw water chestnut.

2. Use a kitchen knife to cut off a portion of the bottom of the water chestnut, leaving only the flesh.

3. Place the cut surface downwards and make another cut on both sides of the water chestnut, making sure to see the flesh without damaging it too much.

4. If there are a lot of water chestnuts, you can cut them all in batches first.

5. Use your hands to hold the two corners of the water chestnut, and apply even force to the concave area with your thumb.

6. Then gently break the skin of the water chestnut and it will be easily taken off.

7. There are still some left on one side. Take what you can directly take. If you can’t take it, break it again. Practice makes perfect.

8. In this way, an almost complete water chestnut meat is peeled out.