How to soak tripe?

Pidu is a common food in our daily life. It looks very translucent and tastes very good when eaten. To describe it in one word, it is very chewy. There are many ways to eat tripe. In most cases, it is eaten directly by blanching it in water and dipping it in sauce. Tripe skin is very nutritious and needs to be soaked before eating. So, how should the skin tripe be soaked best?

Method 1 for soaking the belly:

After rinsing the dried tripe, soak it in warm water for about 1 to 3 days. During the soaking period, change to clean warm water several times to prevent it from deteriorating. The tripe is soaked until it can be easily penetrated with chopsticks. It is said that the tripe has been soaked.

This method of soaking tripe is rarely used because it takes too long and it is troublesome to change the warm water frequently.

Method 2 for soaking the skin of the belly:

Soak the washed tripe in hot water until it becomes soft, then bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat for a while. When washing the skin belly, you can use hot alkaline water to wash it, which will be more effective. But if you use hot alkaline water to wash the tripe, you need to add some vinegar when cooking to neutralize the alkaline taste.

Method 3 for soaking the skin of the belly:

Soak the dried skin tripe in hot alkaline water for about half an hour, then rinse it in clean water to remove the alkaline smell (adding a little vinegar when rinsing will help remove the alkaline smell), and then soak it in clean water for 2 to 3 hours.

A reminder:

Normal tripe skin should be golden or yellow in color. Those tripe skins that are white and beautiful are bleached and poisonous. Don't buy them or eat them.

Nutritional Information

Tripe skin contains protein, amino acids, and carbohydrates necessary for the human body, which is more than 4 times higher than pork, but the fat content is 1/2 of pork. Tripe skin also contains a large amount of trace elements, which can promote metabolism, nourish the skin, and long-term consumption can keep you young forever. The skin of the tripe is yellow-white in color, crispy in texture, with uniform pores, hollow and neat blocks, and delicious in taste.