Homemade Msg

Name: Homemade Msg
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 80g Dried shiitake mushrooms; 60g Dried shrimp

by marieanne (from Tencent.)

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

2

Many people in their lives like to add more MSG in order to increase the flavor of the food when they are cooking. This is actually harming the health of themselves and their family members inadvertently. Because the main component of MSG is sodium glutamate, it will mutate to produce a new substance—sodium pyroglutamate when the temperature exceeds 100°C. This substance not only has no umami taste, but is also toxic. Entrance has adverse effects on the brain, gastrointestinal and reproductive system. In addition, MSG can also produce chemical reactions with acid-base substances, so that sodium glutamate can be converted to disodium glutamate, which is also not good for the human body.
Since I learned that MSG is harmful to health, I have never used MSG again. The so-called MSG is nothing more than freshness and flavor enhancement. Some time ago, I studied and tested the effect of using dried shiitake mushrooms and dried shrimps to grind into powder instead of MSG. It is a natural homemade product. MSG, healthy and safe, is for those who want to use MSG but don’t dare to use MSG.

Ingredients

80g Dried Shiitake Mushrooms
60g Dried Shrimp

Homemade Msg

1. Prepare dried shiitake mushrooms and dried shrimp skins

2. Wash the dried shiitake mushrooms and wipe off the surface water with a dry towel

3. Put the shrimp skins and shiitake mushrooms in the baking dish

4. Put it in the oven and bake at 100 degrees, the time is set for 2.5 hours

5. After half an hour, take out the shrimp skins and let them cool thoroughly, and put them into the grinding cup of the food processor.

6. Use a food processor to beat into a powder

7. After the shiitake mushrooms are completely dried and the moisture is also beaten into powder with a food processor (the shiitake mushroom powder needs to be sieved), and then mix the two powders evenly.

Tips:
1. If you don't have an oven at home, you can also put the ingredients in the pan and fry until there is no moisture, but pay attention to control the heat, you can also choose to directly expose to the sun for a few days, which is also a good way to dehydration.
2. When making monosodium glutamate, the required materials must be thoroughly roasted and dried, and then they can be ground into powder after cooling;
3. The prepared taste essence should be placed in a sealed bottle, and then placed in the refrigerator for storage
4. The storage time should not be too long, it is best to finish eating within a month, so don't make too much at one time
5. Shrimp skin contains high sodium. After the shrimp skin MSG is put in the dish, the amount of salt should be reduced accordingly
6. If you buy dried shrimps in bulk, rinse them with running water several times, then soak them in water for five minutes, then rinse them with running water, drain the water, and bake them.
7. The shiitake mushroom powder should be sieved, and the sieved residue should be ground, sieved, and grind and sieved several times.