Horseshoe Dumplings

Dumplings are something we eat often. The filling is very important to whether the dumplings are delicious or not. There are many fillings that can be used to make dumplings in daily life, such as leek filling, cabbage filling, onion filling, etc. However, some people like to use water chestnuts to make dumplings. Water chestnuts are actually what we often call water chestnuts. It is also a very common ingredient in daily life. It has the effect of clearing heat and stimulating appetite, and is very good for the body.

How to make delicious water chestnut dumplings?

1. Buy fresh water chestnuts, remove the skin and soak them in clean water to prevent oxidation of the surface of the water chestnuts. Then cut the water chestnuts into small pieces and cut some pickled mustard into small pieces. Then make the purchased pork into minced meat and set aside.

2. Add salt, chicken essence, cooking wine and light soy sauce to the meat filling, then add some five-spice powder and stir in the same direction. After there is no water in the meat filling, pour the chopped water chestnuts and pickled mustard tubers into the meat filling and mix well. After completing all this, friends can knead the dough, make it into dough and let it rest for twenty minutes for later use.

3. Roll the proofed dough into dough sheets of uniform size. Then put the mixed dumpling filling into the dough sheets and wrap them into fuller dumplings. Then put the wrapped dumplings in boiling water and cook them. The delicious dumplings can be served on the table. Prepare a dish of vinegar to make them more delicious. Friends must be careful when making dumplings, and never fill them too full to avoid the dumpling skin being cooked and broken.

What friends need to pay attention to when cooking dumplings is that they can add a small spoonful of salt to the boiling water so that the dumplings will not stick to the pot when cooking. And adding a little salt to the water can make the cooked dumplings particularly round.

The efficacy and function of water chestnuts

Treating respiratory diseases

In seasons when respiratory infectious diseases are more common, eating fresh water chestnuts is helpful in preventing and treating meningitis, measles, whooping cough and acute pharyngitis.

Laxative and diuretic effects

Water chestnuts contain crude protein and starch, which can promote large intestine peristalsis. They are often used clinically to treat food stagnation, fullness, and dry stool caused by heat evil. Water chestnut decoction can promote diuresis and is an excellent food therapy for patients with urinary tract infections.

Treating diabetes

Water chestnuts are tender and can quench thirst, and have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetic patients.

Clear the lungs and resolve phlegm

Water chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature, can clear away lung heat, and are rich in mucus, which has the effect of promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. Therefore, they can clear away phlegm heat and treat lung heat cough, coughing up yellow, sticky and thick phlegm.