Strawberry has always been our favorite fruit. It tastes sweet and sour, and it smells with a faint fruity aroma. Not only can be eaten directly, but also can be juiced, made into jam or made into a fruit platter with other fruits, strawberries are also an indispensable part of many desserts.

When buying strawberries, choose strawberries with bright red color, bright green stems and leaves, evenly distributed strawberry seeds on the skin, no damage or rot. To know that it is not "the bigger the strawberry, the better the taste". Larger strawberries will taste lighter, and it is more suitable to choose ruddy strawberries that are slightly larger than quail eggs.

Strawberries have high water content, thin skins, and are easily damaged, causing microorganisms to invade and rot. The best way is to buy as much as you eat, not too much at once.

Many strawberries on the market will have pesticide residues, and many people do not know how to clean strawberries. Let's take a look at the cleaning suggestions for strawberries.

1. Pour the strawberries into a pot, add water to the pot to ensure that the strawberries are submerged.

2. Add an appropriate amount of salt to the basin, stir well, and let the salt fully melt.

3. Let the strawberries stand and soak for about 3-5 minutes, so that the dust, bugs and other impurities on the surface of the strawberries will surface.

4. After soaking, pour out the salt water, and rinse with clean water several times, so that the washed strawberries are very clean and can be eaten with confidence.

Strawberries can be paired with many kinds of fruits. It has a good flavor when eaten directly or juiced. You can choose which combination you like.

Refreshing taste: watermelon, apple, pear, cantaloupe, cherry, sugar cane.

Mellow taste: papaya, dragon fruit, mango, banana, mangosteen, etc.

Sweet and sour taste: raspberry, blueberry, mulberry, lemon, grapefruit, orange, kiwi, pineapple, etc.

When eating with other fruits, pay attention to the amount of consumption, so as not to eat too many kinds, too mixed, which may cause gastrointestinal discomfort and so on.

Here are some delicious recipes made with strawberries.

1. Strawberry Cherry Juice

We need these materials:

80g strawberry

10 cherries

moderate amount of milk and honey

· Wash the strawberries, remove the stems and cut them into small pieces.

· Wash the cherries and remove the stems and pits.

· Put the prepared ingredients into the juicer and add the appropriate amount of milk and honey.

· Start the juicer and squeeze it into juice.

If the taste is sweet, you can appropriately increase the amount of honey to increase the sweetness of the juice. If you like cold drinks, you can add crushed ice to the juicer for better flavor.

2. Strawberry Pudding

The taste of strawberry pudding is smooth, tender and sweet, which has always been loved by dessert lovers, and it is not difficult to make, we need these materials.

200g milk

2 egg yolks

7.5g gelatin

250g strawberry

100g whipped cream

50g caster sugar

some strawberry jam

· Soak gelatin in cold water until soft. Put the milk in a milk pot and bring it to a boil over low heat.

· Mix the egg yolks and caster sugar, and use a hand mixer to gently stir until the egg yolks are slightly white.

· Add the milk little by little to the egg yolks and stir well. Don't pour a lot of milk into the eggs at one time, to avoid egg flowers.

· When the milk is slightly hot, add the soaked gelatin pieces and stir until the gelatin pieces are melted. If it doesn't melt, heat the water and stir until combined.

· In order to avoid air bubbles affecting the internal structure of the pudding, it is necessary to filter the prepared milk egg yolk liquid with a flour sieve.

· Blend the strawberries with a blender or an electric egg beater into a puree, add to step 5, and mix well.

· Whip whipped cream until 60% thick, then add to step 6.

· After stirring evenly, put it into a good-looking cup. Garnish with some strawberry jam on top.

· Refrigerate for more than 30 minutes, you can enjoy delicious strawberry pudding, which is a good snack for the elderly and children.