How to dry bamboo shoots

As the name suggests, dried bamboo shoots are made by dehydrating fresh bamboo shoots. Compared with fresh bamboo shoots, dried bamboo shoots usually have a longer shelf life and are very convenient to carry. After being dried, the nutrients in the bamboo shoots can be retained to the greatest extent. In fact, the method of making dried bamboo shoots is very simple. The following introduces the method of drying bamboo shoots.

How to dry bamboo shoots?

1. Digging bamboo shoots

If you want to make dried bamboo shoots at home, you must go to the bamboo forest to pick fresh bamboo shoots. The best time is around the Qingming Festival in spring every year. The loss at this time is the highest, and most bamboo shoots have already sprouted. Not only are they easy to dig, but the dug shoots are also larger and taste particularly good.

2. Peeling bamboo shoots

After picking fresh bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, you need to remove the hard skin on the surface, which is the bamboo shoot shell. It will be very troublesome to peel the shell by hand. The best way is to choose a sharp knife to directly remove the hard shell of the outer layer of the bamboo shoot to get the bamboo shoot meat inside.

3. Cook bamboo shoots

Remove the outer shell of fresh bamboo shoots, and then remove the nodes. Wash them with clean water, remove the moisture, and cut into slices. Then put the bamboo shoots slices into a pot, add water and cook them. After cooking, take them out and put them in a basket, put heavy objects on top to remove the moisture from the bamboo shoots.

4. Sun drying

After removing the moisture from the cooked pig blood, take it out directly and place it on a clean bamboo strip, spread it flat, and dry it in the sun. Turn it over frequently during the drying process so that the bamboo shoots can dehydrate as quickly as possible. After it is completely dried, the homemade dried bamboo shoots are ready. When you want to eat it, take out some and soak them in clean water. However, you must pay attention to rain protection when drying bamboo shoots. If the bamboo shoots are exposed to rain during the drying process, their taste will deteriorate and they will easily deteriorate during storage.

Other ways to cook bamboo shoots

In addition to the above method, you can also take out the fresh bamboo shoots and cook them directly in salt water. Let it absorb a lot of salt water, then take it out, remove the water and put it in a ventilated place to air dry. The dried bamboo shoots made in this way have a longer shelf life, but they need to be desalted before eating, otherwise they will taste too salty and not delicious at all.

Method 1 of making dried bamboo shoots

1. To make dried bamboo shoots at home, you need to peel the fresh bamboo shoots you harvested, put enough water in the pot, then add the peeled fresh bamboo shoots, cover the pot, and cook over low heat.

2. After the pot boils, continue to cook for ten minutes, then turn off the heat, take out the bamboo shoots from the water, drain the water to cool it down, and then put it in a sunny environment to dry. After about two days, the bamboo shoots will be completely dehydrated, and the homemade dried bamboo shoots will be ready. You can put them away at this time, and soak them in clean water in advance when you want to eat them.

Method 2 for making dried bamboo shoots

1. When making dried bamboo shoots, you can take 10 kilograms of fresh bamboo shoots, 300 grams of table salt, a pot of water, and an electric oven.

2. Remove the shell of the prepared fresh bamboo shoots, rinse them with clean water, and then cut them in half from the middle. If the fresh bamboo shoots you buy are relatively thick, you can divide them into four equal parts.

3. Put clean water in the pot, add table salt, and then heat it to a boil. After boiling, put the processed fresh bamboo shoots in the pot and cook them together. During the cooking process, constantly remove the foam floating on the water. Continue cooking for about ten minutes and then turn off the heat.

4. After the fresh bamboo shoots are cooked, take them out and drain them, then put them on the baking tray of the oven, set the oven temperature to 120 degrees, choose upper and lower fire to bake for one hour, then take them out and turn them over, then put them back in the oven and continue to bake for about an hour. After taking them out again, you will find that the dried bamboo shoots are ready, and the texture is very hard and crisp.

5. Put the prepared dried bamboo shoots in a vacuum bag and seal it for storage. When needed, take out an appropriate amount and soak it in clean water in advance, and then stew it with meat ingredients.