How to Cook Delicious Bird's Nest, Make It Bloom a Lot, Without Losing Nutrients

Bird's nest contains many valuable nutrients and brings many unexpected benefits to health. Improper processing will cause the loss of nutrients and reduce the value of bird's nest. Below are things to note to process bird's nest deliciously, with standard flavor, and without losing nutrients:

1. Do Not Soak Bird's Nest In Water For Hours

Absolutely do not soak bird's nest for too long in water for hours, it will lose many valuable ingredients. Bird's nest is formed from the saliva of swiftlets, which has soft, flexible and sticky properties, when exposed to air it will harden into a nest. Therefore, before steaming, just soak the bird's nest for 15 minutes is enough to stimulate the expansion process.

2. Do not cook bird's nest with high heat or boiling water. 100°C

Because high temperatures will destroy the natural nutrients in bird's nest.

3. Steam Bird's Nest At A Stable Temperature Of 85 °C

85°C is The ideal temperature for steaming bird's nest helps preserve all the nutrients in the bird's nest. The best way is to steam bird's nest with a specialized Steamer to help stabilize the temperature throughout the steaming process, retain the characteristic flavor & preserve the nutrients in the bird's nest.

4. Do Not Add Rock Sugar From The Beginning

Because it will make the bird's nest difficult to expand, you should only add sugar in the last 7 minutes of the cooking process.

5. Do not cook bird's nest with other ingredients

Cook the bird's nest separately and the other ingredients separately, then mix the two parts together to get a delicious bowl of bird's nest.