Why can't Tremella be cooked? How to cook Tremella so that it can be cooked easily

As we all know, Tremella is a common delicacy. It has various ways of eating, tastes sweet and delicious, has high nutritional value, and is good for the body when eaten in moderation. Many people often eat Tremella. Some people find that Tremella is not cooked when they cook it. So why is Tremella not cooked? Let's take a closer look!

Why can't Tremella be cooked?

1. Use hot or warm water to soak the Tremella, so that it is not easy to be sticky. It is best to use room temperature water to soak it, and the soaking time is 4-6 hours. If the time is too short, it will not open, and if it is too long, it will easily lead to the loss of colloid.

2. After adding the Tremella to the pot, first boil the water over high heat for a few minutes (be careful to prevent the water from overflowing the pot), then turn to low heat and simmer for about an hour. It is difficult to release the Tremella gelatin if you keep using low heat at the beginning.

3. The white fungus should be torn into small pieces. If the pieces are too large, they will not stick to the skin easily. In my experience, it is better to tear the soaked white fungus by hand than to cut it with a knife. The smaller the pieces, the better.

4. You must never use a water bain-marie to stew Tremella. Tremella is different from bird's nest. It will never become glutinous if stewed in a water bain-marie because the temperature is not high enough.

5. If you find that there is not enough water in the pot when cooking white fungus, you need to add water. Remember, do not add cold water, but add hot water, otherwise the glutinous texture will be greatly reduced.

6. Some varieties of Tremella are very brittle and can never be cooked into a sticky state. Usually this kind of Tremella is delicious when mixed with cold dishes. I have seen this kind of Tremella, which is very small, about the size of a one-yuan coin, and is very expensive. This kind of Tremella cannot be cooked into a sticky state.

How to cook Tremella to make it softer

If you want to cook Tremella until it is soft and juicy, the selection of ingredients is very important. It is best to use fresh Tremella, which will become soft and juicy after cooking for 40 minutes. It has a smooth taste.

However, most of the dried Tremella is usually purchased because it is easy to store and preserve. This should be noted when purchasing. The color of the top-quality dried Tremella is slightly golden and has no pungent smell. After soaking, tear it into small pieces and it is silvery white. This kind of Tremella is top-quality Tremella. It can also be cooked to be smooth and soft. But it will take a little longer, more than 1.5 hours to be soft and smooth. There is also a kind of dried Tremella, which is white when dry. It smells pungent. This kind of Tremella is smoked with sulfur and will not become sticky no matter how it is cooked. Remember not to buy this kind.

If you want to make Tremella fuciformis soft and mushy quickly, you can use a pressure cooker to cook it. Soak Tremella fuciformis overnight, wash it and tear it into small pieces. Add it to the pressure cooker with cold water along with longan, lotus seeds, red dates and other ingredients. Press it on low heat for 40 minutes. Let it cool naturally until it becomes soft and mushy. Just like what you usually eat in a hotel, it has a smooth and glutinous taste.

The hotel's Tremella soup is fragrant, soft, smooth and sticky. Because the hotel has a large sales volume, it is all cooked in advance, and the Tremella used is also top-quality Tremella. One thing to note here is that the Tremella must be washed after soaking and then torn into small pieces. This makes it easier for the gelatin to precipitate. If you tear the small pieces first and then wash them, it is easy to cause the loss of Tremella gelatin, affecting the taste of the Tremella soup.

How to choose good Tremella

You can choose based on the following three points:

1. Usually, the flesh of high-quality Tremella fuciformis will be thicker, so the dried Tremella fuciformis will be larger in size. So if you want to know whether the Tremella fuciformis you picked is good, you should first look at the size of the Tremella fuciformis. Good Tremella fuciformis generally have better toughness, so when choosing Tremella fuciformis, you can also pull it to see if it is tough.

2. High-quality Tremella fuciformis will smell refreshing, because it grows on tree trunks and has the fresh fragrance of the tree. However, low-quality Tremella fuciformis, especially those smoked with sulfur, will smell pungent.

3. When we choose Tremella, we can also taste the taste of dried Tremella. If the taste is very irritating to the tongue, or has a slightly spicy taste, we must not buy such Tremella.