How do you eat Cordyceps flower? A detailed introduction to common ways to eat it
Cordyceps flower stewed lean pork
First prepare lean pork, Cordyceps flower and a piece of ginger, then wash the Cordyceps flower and cut the lean pork into pieces and blanch them. Put the lean pork, Cordyceps flower and ginger into a stewing jar and stew in a pot for three or four hours, and a fragrant bowl of Cordyceps flower stewed lean pork is ready. Remember to add a little salt before drinking it and it will taste even more delicious!
Cordyceps flower soup
Cordyceps flower can be paired with all kinds of relatively mild ingredients to make soup. For example, when paired with pork ribs, the resulting soup is both delicious and nutritious. Before making the soup, you can soak the Cordyceps flower in clear water for ten minutes to remove the dirt on it. When making the soup, first bring it to a boil over high heat, then simmer slowly over low heat for three hours, season it well, and the soup is done.
Actually, there are more than just these two ways to eat Cordyceps flower; it is just that the editor is introducing two widely praised ways to eat it. But do not just eat it without knowing what effects it has, as harming your health would not be good either. Although Cordyceps flower is a food ingredient, it is even more importantly a medicinal material. Let us learn a little about its medicinal value!
The effects and functions of Cordyceps flower: ways to eat Cordyceps flower and precautions
Although it is called "Cordyceps flower," it is not a flower, but a medicinal fungus formed by the combination of insect and fungus, with the scientific name Cordyceps mycelium, and it is divided by variety into fruiting body and spore head. According to differences in cultivation technology, strains and nutrient substrate, Cordyceps flower also varies in quality. So, what are the effects and functions of Cordyceps flower? Since it is a top-grade tonic, what ways are there to eat Cordyceps flower?
The effects and functions of Cordyceps flower
Effect and function one of Cordyceps flower: regulating the immune system
It restores people with low immune function to a normal level, while also improving abnormally high immune states, thereby maintaining the stability of the body, so Cordyceps is called a dual immune regulator.
Effect and function two of Cordyceps flower: increasing cellular energy
Cordyceps flower can directly enhance the body's hardwired energy factories, improve the body's cold tolerance, and reduce fatigue.
Effect and function three of Cordyceps flower: regulating heart function
It can improve the heart's ability to tolerate hypoxia and reduce the heart's oxygen consumption
Effect and function four of Cordyceps flower: regulating respiratory system function
In terms of the respiratory system, it helps regulate rhythm and regulate lung function.
Effect and function five of Cordyceps flower: prolonging life and resisting aging in the human body
An obvious antioxidant response was measured in patients' blood. It has a certain effect on prolonging human lifespan.
Ways to eat Cordyceps flower:
1. Steamed hen duck with Cordyceps flower
Ingredients: 1 young hen duck, about 1500 grams, 18 grams of Cordyceps flower, cooking wine, and appropriate amounts of scallion, ginger, monosodium glutamate and salt.
Method: Remove the feathers from the duck, open the belly and discard the intestines and other innards, wash clean, stuff the Cordyceps militaris into the duck's belly, place in a large porcelain basin, add ginger, salt and cooking wine, steam until thoroughly cooked and soft, then sprinkle a little monosodium glutamate into the juice and it is done.
2. Cordyceps flower immortal congee
Ingredients: 3 grams of ginseng, 3 grams of Poria, 3 grams of dwarf lilyturf tuber, 80 grams of black rice, 3 grams of Cordyceps flower, 15 grams of northern sugar; just use the usual method for making congee.
Suitable for: high blood lipids, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, senile edema.
3. Cordyceps flower squab soup
Ingredients: 10 grams of Cordyceps flower, one squab, 30 grams of fish maw, one slice of ginger
Method: Wash the squab, Cordyceps flower and ginger; soak and wash the fish maw and cut into shreds; put all ingredients into a stewing jar, add an appropriate amount of water and a little wine, stew over water for 2 hours, season and it is ready to eat.
4. Cordyceps flower teal soup
Ingredients: 40 grams of Cordyceps flower, 1 teal, 3 slices of ginger
Method: Wash the teal and put it into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 2 hours, season this soup
5. Cordyceps flower lean pork soup
Ingredients: 2 liang of pork, an appropriate amount of Cordyceps flower, a little each of red dates, longan and goji berries, 2 slices of ginger
Method: Wash clean, add to water, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for one hour, add seasonings and remove from the pot
6. Cordyceps flower tofu soup
Ingredients: 5 grams of Cordyceps flower, 2 blocks of tender tofu, 30 grams of lean pork, 1 bowl of stock, several scallions, sesame oil (or omit)
Method: (1) First cut the lean pork into shreds, marinate with light soy sauce, salt, oyster sauce, sweet potato starch, cooking wine and pepper for about 15 minutes; cut the tofu on a plate into small strips 1 cm wide and 4 cm long; wash the Cordyceps flower, soak in clear water for 5 minutes and remove, do not pour away the water used to soak the Cordyceps flower, put in sweet potato starch and mix well to make a sweet potato starch slurry.
(2) Pour the stock and Cordyceps flower into a cold pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook for 10 minutes first.
(3) When the soup color turns red, add the tofu and continue cooking for 10 minutes; the more the tofu cooks in the soup, the more delicious the soup becomes.
(4) Pour in the sweet potato starch slurry, shaking the pot while pouring so that the sweet potato starch water and soup blend evenly together; do not turn the heat too high.
(5) After the soup becomes thick, turn up the heat, add the shredded lean pork, stir the pork shreds apart with chopsticks, and when the pork shreds all turn white, turn off the heat; while the soup still has residual heat, add salt, light soy sauce, pepper and monosodium glutamate (optional) to adjust color and flavor, and finally sprinkle with chopped scallions and drizzle with sesame oil; those who do not like the taste of sesame oil can omit it. It is recommended to use stock as the soup base, in which case no other oil needs to be added. If there is no stock and clear water is used instead, it is best to add a spoonful of lard to increase the soup's fresh and fragrant taste.
7. Cordyceps flower hot pot
Method: Following the usual ingredients and way of eating hot pot, add Cordyceps flower together when adding the soup base. The addition of Cordyceps flower not only strengthens the body but also removes gamey odor and increases freshness. For every 4-6 people eating hot pot, 12 grams of Cordyceps flower can be added.
Precautions for eating Cordyceps flower:
1. Before use, it is best not to wash Cordyceps flower, because washing will cause the fungal spore powder attached to the Cordyceps flower fruiting body, which has dietary therapeutic effects, to be lost, affecting its efficacy. However, if you buy loose Cordyceps that has been touched by many people and looks not very clean, you can wash it before use, but do not soak it too long.
2. When making soup with Cordyceps flower, it should not be cooked for a long time, to avoid loss of aroma and destruction of nutritional components; it is better to add the Cordyceps mycelium before the soup is almost done, then simmer over gentle low heat for about 30 minutes.
3. If using a stewing jar to make Cordyceps flower soup, the stewing time is best controlled within 2 hours.
4. There is no need to add monosodium glutamate or other seasonings to the soup, because the soup's flavor is already sufficiently delicious.
5. Suitable groups:
a. Mental workers; sub-healthy people ;
b. Those prone to fatigue, prone to colds, overweight or underweight, physically weak, with low immunity;
c. Sore waist and knees, poor kidney function;
d. Facial dark spots and dullness.
How to grow Cordyceps flower:
1. Strain: The isolation, purification and cultivation of the strain are very critical and very difficult. That is, use wild fungi for tissue isolation, then cultivate and purify an excellent original strain, and after artificial purification, expand the culture to produce the strain for large-scale cultivation.
2. Cultivation: In the laboratory, potato, glucose, agar, peptone, inorganic salts and so on are usually used to make the culture medium. In large-scale cultivation bases, rice, wheat, corn, as well as beans, eggs and milk and so on are used in formula proportions to make the culture medium, which after being dispensed into containers (bottles) needs to be sterilized.
3. Inoculation: After the culture medium is made, the next step is to inoculate the strain onto the culture medium. This process needs to be carried out under sterile conditions; otherwise, the strain and culture medium may be contaminated and foreign bacteria introduced.
4. Culture: After inoculation, move it into the culture room and place it on shelves for cultivation. The optimum growth temperature for the mycelium is 15 to 25°C, and the optimum growth temperature for the stroma is 18 to 22°C. The culture room needs to maintain a certain temperature, humidity and air cleanliness. After 2-3 months of cultivation, when the grown stroma slowly turns orange-red or orange-yellow and rod-shaped, it can be harvested.
5. Preservation: After harvesting, put it into clean utensils and dry it promptly by drying or air-drying; the dried stroma is stored in sealed plastic bags for storage or sale. After harvesting, according to the situation, supplement the culture medium with water or nutrient solution and maintain a suitable temperature to let it resume growth, and another 1~2 crops of stroma can be harvested.
The differences between Cordyceps flower, northern Cordyceps and Chinese cordyceps:
Northern Cordyceps is characterized by having many spore heads. There are relatively many small workshops for northern Cordyceps, and coupled with factors of vicious market competition, many northern Cordyceps on the market have black heads and necrotic grass conditions, and some small workshops even add sulfur to Cordyceps flower to make it look more golden yellow. Consumers should choose Cordyceps flower from well-known brands.
The scientific name of Cordyceps flower is Cordyceps mycelium, also known as Cordyceps militaris, and it is divided by variety into fruiting body and spore head. The fruiting body and spore head each have their own benefits, and quality still depends on the cultivator's technology, the strain and the nutrient substrate. Cordyceps flower is the general term for Xinhui Cordyceps, northern Cordyceps, Cordyceps militaris, fruiting body and spore head, all of which are cultivated Cordyceps.
Chinese cordyceps refers to a Chinese treasure. It is an insect in winter and a grass in summer, that is, wild Cordyceps. The effect of Chinese cordyceps is better than that of Cordyceps flower, but the price of Chinese cordyceps is several ten thousand yuan per jin, while Cordyceps flower is only a few hundred yuan per jin. Comparing Cordyceps flower and Chinese cordyceps of the same weight, Chinese cordyceps has the better effect; comparing Cordyceps flower and Chinese cordyceps at the same price, Cordyceps flower has a much better effect.
Several ways to eat Cordyceps flower
Introduction: Cordyceps flower is not a kind of insect; just like Chinese cordyceps, although the name sounds like an insect, it actually is not. Cordyceps flower is a kind of grass, but it is also not quite the same as Chinese cordyceps. Cordyceps flower is a kind of Cordyceps militaris fruiting body, and it belongs to a type of fungus. It is called Cordyceps flower only to distinguish it from Chinese cordyceps. The appearance of Cordyceps flower also does not look like an insect; instead, it looks like a blooming flower. Cordyceps flower is rich in many nutrients needed by the human body, so eating Cordyceps flower is very beneficial. Next, the editor will introduce ways to eat Cordyceps flower!
Ingredients
Main ingredients
30 grams of Cordyceps flower
An appropriate amount of chicken
Method/steps
One, Cordyceps flower and dried scallop chicken soup:
1. After washing the chicken, chop into pieces and blanch; soak the dried scallops and red dates in clear water until soft; soak the Cordyceps flower in clear water until soft, and do not pour away the water used to soak the Cordyceps flower.
2. Put the chicken, dried scallops, Cordyceps flower, red dates and ginger slices into an electric clay pot, add the previously used soaking water from the Cordyceps flower, and cook for 2 hours.
3. Add an appropriate amount of salt to season and it is done.
Two, chicken soaked with Cordyceps flower:
1. First wash the chicken and marinate it with wine and salt.
2. Wash the Cordyceps flower and soak it in water until soft; put an appropriate amount of water in a pot, then pour the softened Cordyceps flower together with the soaking water into the pot and bring to a boil, turn down the heat, put in the chicken and soak for fifteen minutes, then take it out and cool it in cold water, preferably ice water .
3. After chopping into pieces, take out the Cordyceps flower and place it beside the chicken, use the water used to soak the chicken, add salt to season, then thicken with a starch slurry and pour it over the chicken and it is done
Three, Cordyceps flower pork spine soup:
1. Rinse the pork spine with clear water. Soak the Cordyceps flower, gorgon nut and goji berries in clear water for about 2 minutes, then wash and drain for later use. Peel the sweet corn, remove the silk and wash it, then cut into small pieces.
2. Put the pork spine into a soup pot, add enough clear water, do not cover with a lid, heat over high heat, and after a few minutes skim off the foam with a spoon, add the Cordyceps flower, gorgon nut, goji berries and dried scallops, turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour.
3. After adding the corn pieces, continue simmering over low heat for 1 and a half hours, then add salt and it is done.
Four, steamed chicken with Cordyceps flower:
1. Wash the Cordyceps flower in advance and soak until soft; remove the pits from the red dates and cut into small pieces; shred the ginger; chop the chicken into small pieces, put into a large bowl, add an appropriate amount of salt, white sugar, cornstarch and light soy sauce, marinate for 10 minutes to season; put the Cordyceps flower, red dates and shredded ginger into the chicken, mix well and plate. (Those who do not like sweet-tasting dishes can omit the red dates; just a tiny bit of white sugar is enough, used only to enhance freshness)
2. Boil a pot of water; after the water boils, put the chicken into the steaming rack, steam over high heat for about 12 minutes, turn off the heat and let it sit covered for 5 minutes before taking it out
3. According to preference, sprinkle a little chopped scallion on top for more fragrance
The above are the ways to eat Cordyceps flower introduced by the editor. Cordyceps flower contains many vitamins, proteins and amino acids needed by the human body, so medically speaking, Cordyceps flower has anti-tumor effects, just like Chinese cordyceps, but its effects are far inferior to those of Chinese cordyceps. However, compared with Chinese cordyceps, the price of Cordyceps flower is relatively cheap, so ordinary people can buy Cordyceps flower to eat, especially for making soup, and it is very nourishing for the body!