If you are a food lover passionate about dishes with superb flavor and wonderful nutritional value for the body, you will certainly want to take a look at the famous bird's nest dessert. It is not only a top-notch delicacy worthy of being called a "royal court treasure", but bird's nest dessert is also truly a breakthrough source of nutrition for the health of you and your loved ones. Join Yến Sào Sài Gòn in discovering how to cook delicious bird's nest dessert right now!
Nutritional content of bird's nest
Bird's nest contains a high protein content (45–55%), including 18 amino acids, some of which are very high, such as aspartic acid (4.69%) and proline (5.27%), which help regenerate muscle cells, tissues and skin. If you are a beauty enthusiast, you surely won't be a stranger to the beautifying benefits of bird's nest, right?
At the same time, bird's nest also contains essential amino acids such as cysteine and phenylalanine (4.50%), which help strengthen memory, increase nerve impulse transmission and increase the absorption of vitamin D from sunlight.
More particularly, bird's nest contains 31 trace elements needed for the development of children and for nourishing the elderly; this is a wonderful benefit of bird's nest for the elderly. For those who have just recovered from illness, you can nourish them with bird's nest to help the body regain health quickly.
Bird's nest is already nutritious in itself, but you can create a breakthrough in nutritional value by combining other ingredients when preparing bird's nest dessert.
How to cook delicious and extremely nutritious bird's nest dessert
Bird's nest is a highly nutritious food. It gives stamina, stimulates digestion, helps calm the mind, stops bleeding, and relieves coughs… Among bird's nest dishes is the bird's nest dessert, which is extremely simple to prepare, and as for its nutritional value, there is no need to even ask!
Method 1: Bird's nest dessert with lotus seeds and red dates
1. Ingredients to prepare
- Bird's nest: 20 grams.
- Lotus seeds: 10 seeds.
- Ginkgo nuts: 10 nuts.
- Red dates: 10 dates
- Rock sugar: 20 grams.
- How to do it
- Step 1: Soak the bird's nest in water for about 2 hours until soft and expanded, and pick out the feathers. Then wash it clean and leave it to drain.
- Step 2: Boil the lotus seeds, red dates and ginkgo nuts separately until soft.
- Step 3: Put the sugar in a pot with 2 bowls of water and cook until dissolved, then strain.
- Step 4: Put everything into a ceramic pot and steam over water for 45 minutes, and it is done.
You can eat it hot or cold as you like.
Method 2: Bird's nest dessert with lotus seeds
From bird's nest, you can prepare many elaborate, nutritious dishes and drinks: pigeon braised with bird's nest, bird's nest braised with black-boned chicken and Chinese herbs, bird's nest dessert with dried longan, bird's nest soup, bird's nest drink, bird's nest juice with orange… The most popular and easiest to cook is probably bird's nest steamed with lotus seeds.
Preparation:
Briefly boil the lotus seeds, simmer on low heat until just soft, and scoop into bowls (about 10 lotus seeds per bowl is enough). Soak the dark bird's nest in warm water for 1 – 2 hours and remove all feathers and other dirt. Wash the bird's nest well and let it drain. Then add a little rock sugar (it must be rock sugar made from pure sugarcane syrup) and a few very thin slices of ginger. Put everything into the bowl of lotus seeds and steam over water for about 10 – 15 minutes, and it is ready to eat. One nest cup can be divided into three bowls of dessert. Bird's nest dessert is usually best eaten hot or warm. It has the spicy taste of ginger, the nutty aroma of lotus seeds and soft, milky-white nest strands that melt easily on the tongue.
With a similar method, you can cook bird's nest simmered with jujube porridge, mung beans, or mixed bird's nest dessert. According to chefs experienced in cooking bird's nest dishes, three bowls of bird's nest dessert a week is just right, best eaten before going to bed. In particular, for postpartum women, the elderly, people with weakness or who have just recovered from illness, eating a bowl of bird's nest dessert will help the body feel refreshed, stimulate the appetite and fight fatigue.
Method 3: Bird's nest steamed with rock sugar
1. Ingredients to prepare
- 1 stainless steel pot.
- 1 clay pot of 0.3 liters (you can change the capacity depending on the portion; for two people or more, use a 0.9 liter pot).
- 5 grams of pre-processed (frozen) bird's nest or refined bird's nest.
- 2 tablespoons of rock sugar.
- Bowl, spoon, plate.
- How to do it
- Step 1: Pour water into about 1/3 of the pot, then put it on the gas stove.
- Wash the clay pot clean and pour cold water into it, filling about 2/3 of the pot. Place the pot inside the stainless steel pot and heat for about 15 minutes until the water in the pot boils.
While waiting for the water to boil:
- For pre-processed (frozen) bird's nest, you need to thaw it by putting it in a colander and rinsing it briefly with cold water.
- For refined bird's nest, take the nest out and put it in a bowl to soak in cold water for about 10 minutes, then put it in a colander and rinse it again briefly with cold water.
- When the water in the pot has boiled, put the bird's nest into the clay pot inside the pot and cover the clay pot. Then cover the pot and steam for about 10 minutes, then add the rock sugar to the clay pot. Note that you need to watch the amount of sugar so that the sweetness is moderate (about one heaped spoon for 5 grams of nest), then cover and steam for 3 more minutes so that the sugar dissolves completely. And you have a pot of nutritious, delicious bird's nest dessert for yourself and your loved ones.
Method 4: Pandan steamed bird's nest
The effects of bird's nest are beyond dispute, but combining it with pandan leaves is a breakthrough in flavor and nutritional value.
Fresh pandan leaves are not only used as a seasoning for dishes such as sticky rice, sweet soups, jelly, soy milk, cakes and candies… but also offer many other precious benefits for health. Pandan leaves have an anti-insulin-resistance effect by inhibiting the alpha-glucosidase enzyme (the enzyme that turns starch into glucose) and increasing insulin sensitivity. Therefore, some people boil pandan leaves as a drink to treat type 2 diabetes. Besides helping control blood sugar, pandan steamed bird's nest keeps its original flavor and does not become cloying even when taken regularly.
At the same time, pandan leaves also act as a laxative, ease aches and pains, and improve joint-related conditions… On days when you feel tired and have no appetite, a bowl of pandan steamed bird's nest dessert will noticeably improve your sense of taste.
Ingredients:
–Refined bird's nest: 10gr
– Pandan leaves
– Rock sugar: to taste
– Filtered water
How to make pandan steamed bird's nest
– Step 1: Soak the refined bird's nest in water for 30 minutes until it expands evenly, then take it out, wash it clean and let it drain.
– Step 2: Blend the pandan leaves until smooth, then use a sieve to strain out the pulp and get the juice.
– Step 3: Put the rock sugar in a pot and heat it; when the sugar has completely dissolved, turn off the heat. Next add the blended pandan juice and stir well.
– Step 4: Put the bird's nest, rock sugar water and pandan juice into a large pot and mix the ingredients well, then place in the steamer and steam for about 20 minutes, and it is done.
Method 4: Bird's nest dessert with chia seeds
Nowadays, chia seeds are popular for their high nutritional content and the many wonderful health benefits they bring, such as: supporting weight loss, maintaining a healthy gut, eliminating toxins from the body, and protecting you from the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Specifically, chia seeds are a rich source of fiber that helps you prevent the risk of constipation, cardiovascular disease and obesity, and also helps control blood sugar effectively.
Chia seeds also have a fairly high omega-3 content, even far higher than many fatty fish we often eat. This nutrient has been proven to be very good for brain and heart function.
In addition, chia seeds provide vitamins B1 and B3, which are needed to convert the nutrients in food into energy, to metabolize fats in the body, and to keep the nervous system working steadily.
Bird's nest dessert steamed with chia seeds is effective for weight loss, mineral supplementation, detoxifying the body, antioxidant action and digestive support. In particular, bird's nest dessert steamed with chia seeds suits patients with diabetes, helping stabilize blood sugar, reduce blood fat and stabilize cardiovascular health.
How to make bird's nest dessert steamed with chia seeds:
Ingredients
- Bird's nest: 10 grams.
- Chia seeds: 2 spoons.
- Rock sugar: 2 grams.
Preparation
Step 1: Pre-process the bird's nest.
Soak the bird's nest in water until it is evenly soft and expanded.
If it is raw bird's nest, soak it for about 1 – 2 hours. Then use tweezers to pick out all the feathers.
Step 2: Soak the chia seeds.
Soak the chia seeds in cold water for about 15 minutes until they expand.
Step 3: After the bird's nest has been soaked soft, put it in a pot and steam for about 20 minutes. Then add the rock sugar and steam for another 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.
Step 4: Mix the ingredients.
Add the soaked, expanded chia seeds to the steamed bird's nest that has been scooped out.
Stir the expanded chia seeds and the steamed bird's nest together and serve in a bowl.
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