How To Make Lotus Root Starch In Home?
1. Grinding: Wash the fresh lotus root, remove the Oujie, placed in the beater or mortar in the mashed, plus water with a stone grinding into a lotus root paste.
2. Wash the pulp: the lotus root in the bag, the bag down a cylinder or basin, with water to the bag in the rinse, while stirring the bag in the lotus residue, until the filtered water so far.
3. Bleached pulp: the rinse out of the lotus with water drift 1 to 2 days, stir once a day. To be clarified, remove the floating on the surface of the fine lotus residue, and remove the bottom of the sediment, and then put the middle of the powder in another container, diluted with water and then precipitation. So repeated 1 to 2 times, until the lotus root starch was white so far.
4. Leak: After rinsing, after the precipitation of the lotus root starch with a clean bag Sheng, and then rope lift, about half a day can be drained (can also be clean clothes ash bag into the water which sucked ). After the water is drained, the lotus root is removed, broken into about 500 grams of powder, drying for 1 hour or so, and then the knife will be cut into thin slices; continue to dry or dried into a lotus root starch. The general rate of flour in about 10%.
Production of lotus root starch should pay attention to: take lotus root to fresh old lotus is appropriate, lotus root grinding the finer the better, because the grinding the finer the higher the powder rate.
