How to dry long beans

1. Drying method of long beans

Long beans are a vegetable that grows in abundance in the summer and contain various vitamins and minerals. Long beans are very nutritious and are the meat among vegetables. When people buy fresh long beans, they generally choose those with uniform thickness, bright color, transparent and shiny bean strips, and plump grains. Long beans with cracks, wrinkled skin, too thin and seedless strips, or insect marks on the skin should not be purchased.

1. Choose the right long beans (those that are too old, not fresh, have worm eyes, or are rotten) and remove the stems and wash them.

2. Put the long beans into an appropriate amount of boiling water and cook for three to five minutes;

3. Take out the cooked long beans and let them cool (you can sprinkle them with salt at this time, or put them directly into boiling water in step 2);

4. Spread out the long beans and hang them up to expose them to the sun and wind;

5. After one day, when the beans change color, move them to a place with good ventilation and continue to dry them in the sun.

6. After drying, bundle them up and put them in plastic bags for later use.

2. Precautions for drying long beans

1. The long beans that need to be dried cannot be too old, and the long beans that need to be cooked cannot be dried;

2. You can skip the step of boiling the long beans when drying them, but the taste will not be as good as boiled ones;

3. Use boiling water to cook long beans to avoid affecting the effect; the cooking time should not be too long to reduce nutrient loss;

4. The long beans sprinkled with salt have a long shelf life, but not too much;

5. Keep ventilation during the drying process of long beans to prevent them from deteriorating;

6. Air-dried long beans taste better than sun-dried ones;

7. Dried long beans should be placed in plastic bags and soaked in water, hot water can be used, before use.

3. Nutritional value of long beans

1. It contains more high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acids, and its mineral and vitamin content is also higher than other vegetables.

2. It is rich in vitamin B, vitamin C and plant protein, which can make people clear-headed, and has the effects of quenching thirst, strengthening the spleen, invigorating qi and promoting salivation.

3. The vitamin C contained in long beans can stimulate the synthesis of human antibodies, enhance the body's antiviral effect, and prevent acute gastroenteritis.

4. It has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and can fully guarantee people's sleep quality.

5. Eating long beans can also treat vomiting, indigestion, hiccups and other discomforts.