Specific information is as follows:

Species name rainbow bright cherry clam

Chinese common name rainbow bright cherry clam, rainbow cherry clam, plum clam, flat clam, sea melon seed

Latin scientific name Moerella iridescens

Named by Benson, 1842

Family classification classification of mollusks. Mollusca, Bivalve Steel, Curtain Clam Order, Cherry Clam Family

Hai Gua Zi is a famous seawater specialty of Cixi City, which is mostly produced in mud flats with frequent tides.

The sea melon seed is named because its shape and size resemble melon seeds, and its scientific name is plum clam, also known as "rainbow-colored bright cherry clam" and "flat clam".

Sea melon seed shell is long ovate, only 2 cm long, the shell is very thin and fragile, the surface of the gray slightly flesh red, often diving in the mud in about 5 to 6 cm. Flesh fat, produced in the plum season. Ancient people have "Wing sea melon seeds" poem wrote: ice tray launched broken glass, half mixed green onion half with mud. Don't laugh at the wife's teeth wheel, plum flower piece knock gourd.

Sea melon seeds when captured, more sediment, must be in the light salt water in half a day, to be sea melon seeds sediment spit out, wash and spare. To be drained of water, add a small amount of cooking oil in the pot, hot frying, put a little minced onion, ginger, salt or soy sauce, fried to the thin shells of the melon seeds can be popped open to pots to eat. The meat is tender, flavor is very fresh, is a good wine.

Steamed melon seeds:

Raw materials

300 grams of melon seeds, green chili, monosodium glutamate, oil, green onions. Pepper oil, sesame oil each moderate amount.

Making Process

1. Wash the papaya seeds; 2. Put oil in the pot, heat into the onion, papaya seeds, papaya seeds eight ripe, into the green chili pepper stir-fry, openings that are ripe, into the monosodium glutamate, peppercorn oil and sesame oil out of the pot can be.

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Scallions and oil sea melon seeds

The meat is tender, refreshing and delicious.

Main Nutrients: Protein 17.8 g Fat 3.8 g Sugar 1.6 g Calcium 354 mg Cholesterol 140 mg Calories 112 kcal

Raw Material: 400 g of large net papaya seeds

Seasoning (taste): Cooking oil, red pepper, Meiji-Fresh Soy Sauce, Shaoxing Wine, monosodium glutamate (MSG), ginger, ginger, minced ginger, minced garlic, shredded green onion, pepper, moderate amount of each.

Production: 1. frying pan in the fire put water to boil, into the melon seeds scalded, frying pan on the bottom of the oil, under the ginger, garlic slightly stir-fried, pouring into the melon seeds upside down for a while, that is, put into the Shaoxing wine, the United States of America fresh soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, pepper, and then upside down to quickly out of the pot pot pot.

2. Put shredded green onion, ginger, red pepper on top of the melon seeds, dripping into 80% hot oil that is.