Sour tasting bamboo
What is the best way to remove or alleviate the sour, briny taste of canned bamboo shoots? I've tried soaking in cold water for several hours (changed water every hour). I've added salt one time, but found it to be too salty and still sour after cooking. This can't be the natural taste of bamboo because I've tried fresh ones before.
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I don't think it's really achievable with most of the canned product I've seen. The best I've accomplished is to slightly mask the flavor using tricks like adding sugar to the dish, which only works for certain categories of foods (clay pot braises, etc.)
I've found better-quality water-packed plastic sealed pouches that are only slightly acidic, but these can be quite expensive ($3-5 for what is probably only 1/3-1/2 lb), and my nearby Japanese market has ones which are only slightly briny in their produce section. My acquaintance who supplies mushrooms and some other produce and herbs to restaurants advised to buy frozen bamboo shoots for best results, although they are somewhat hard to find in consumer-sized packages; he caters mostly to the restaurant trade.
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Does bamboo taste sour?
Bamboo shoots have a flavor that's somewhat similar to water chestnuts with an extremely mild flavor. It's subtly earthy, woody and a touch nutty. Note that if it tastes particularly bitter, then it has either been stored in the refrigerator too long or it could contain unsafe toxins and should not be eaten.How do you get the bitter taste out of bamboo?
Add the rice bran (or uncooked rice), mix it up quickly and cover with a lid. Start heating the pot. Rice bran is preferred over rice grains. If the bamboo shoots you bought didn't come with a packet of rice brain, you can use uncooked rice + rinsing water instead.What does fermented bamboo taste like?
We can say that they taste like corn in some way. Once cooked, the shoots can be very sweet. In cooking, this delicacy is usually used fresh, dried or canned.Are bamboo shoots sour?
Pickled Sour Bamboo Shoots (naw my dong in Thai) are prepared by pickling boiled bamboo sprouts in brine, giving it a sour taste. Sour Bamboo Shoots are usually added to curries or boiled with pork riblets for a delicious simple soup. This white sour bamboo is a little softer than that of yellow bamboo.Sour bamboo shoots - A familiar dish of Southeast Asians _ CABIN / Living Off Grid
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I know this is not perhaps the answer you were looking for, but if fresh bamboo is hard to come by, and canned bamboo isn't what you want either, try using asparagus as a substitute. It has very much the same texture as bamboo shoots when it is not over done. If stir fry or fried rice, just put it in fresh before hardier greens like broccoli, otherwise if you want to cook it first, put it in a skillet covered with cold water and bring just to a boil and then add to your dish.
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