How to preserve Tet food is long

The preservation of smart food during Tet holidays will help your family have a delicious meal, ensuring health.

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1. banh chung

After the cake is cooked, you need to remove the cake and rinse it with cold water to remove the plastic, then drain. Next, we put the cake into several layers and use heavy objects to put on for a few hours to let the water in the cake escape.

After that, just put the cake in a dry place, not dusty, damp, it can be kept and used for a longer time.

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Banh chung should be stored in a dry place, not dusty, damp.

2. Sausage

For preservation, remove all outer wrappers, avoid sweating. Should be covered with a basket with small holes, but avoid wind. Ideally, you should use spring rolls within 2 days, if you haven't eaten them, boil them again.

3. Frozen meat

Frozen meat eaten with hot rice, dotted pure fish sauce with lemon chilli, served with onion, sauerkraut, tuber . are dishes used on Tet and regular days of the year.

With this dish, should be divided into small boxes just enough to eat each meal to preserve in the refrigerator compartment, just keep the typical flavor and help the dish preserve longer.

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Onions should be washed and well drained.

4. Melon, onion

When cutting the stem, remember not to cut into the tuber. After washing, the root is drained, otherwise it will easily be damaged. Thoroughly boil the soaked water. Sufficient amount of salt, not too light, will last a long time and does not float on the surface. Can bring both melon and sun on the sun, melon will be crispy and preserved longer.

5. Types of jam

Jams often contain lots of sugar, so they are easily watery and moldy. To preserve jam longer, we should put in a jar or plastic bag, cover with a layer of white sugar on top (to absorb moisture inside) and seal it.

When eating, you should only take a small amount, avoid putting leftover pieces of jam back into the bag or bottle. For this type of food, you should not put it in the refrigerator because it will absorb moisture in the outside, creating conditions for mold growth.

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Just soak bamboo shoots a little bit, just enough to ensure safety.

6. Dried bamboo shoots

If you want to leave it for a long time, put the bamboo shoots in a pot of boiling water for about 30 minutes, let it simmer, boil it for a while and then take it out, cut out the old places, rinse.

Use rice water or cooled boiled water to gradually soak, every 2 - 3 days changing water once. However, to ensure safety, only soak one by one, eat for 2-3 days, finish cooking again to use.

7. Fresh food

Fresh meat and fish when purchased should be stored in the freezer so it can be kept for a long time. Need to clean before putting these foods in the box, plastic bags, then tie them up and store them in the freezer.

When you need to prepare any dish, remove it and defrost it. After thawing, the food needs to be cooked.

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Fresh food needs to be cleaned before storage .

8. Vegetables, tubers and fruits

When buying vegetables, fruits and vegetables, we should choose fresh products, with natural colors, not crushed, withered or strange smells .

Vegetables, tubers, fruits after buying, you pick up the parts that are wilted, washed, drained and put in the refrigerator compartment for preservation. We can wrap them with newspaper or plastic bags to keep food from becoming dehydrated and fresh longer.

For vegetables, tubers, fruits such as cabbage, Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes . after being purchased, you can leave them in a cool place that can be preserved, not necessarily for into the refrigerator. For this way, you do not need to wash first but only when you need to process.

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Fresh meat and fish when purchased should be stored in the freezer so it can be kept for a long time.

9. Cooked food

After cooking, if you want to preserve it, let it cool and then put it in the refrigerator. The reason is that if you put hot food in the refrigerator, it will cause food to deteriorate, condensation, damage to other foods and adverse health effects when eating.

You should put in a sealed container and cover it to avoid being affected by raw foods.

10. How to defrost quickly

If you need to thaw out urgently, put the food in the microwave. This is great because the high frequency electric field will cause internal friction in the food itself, causing food to heat up, thawing but not breaking the cell.

If you don't have a microwave, use cold water to add a little salt to thaw.