In addition:
When killing a turtle, pick out the gallbladder and bile from the turtle's internal organs. After washing the turtle, add some water to the turtle bile and smear it all over the turtle. Leave it for a while and rinse it with clean water. The turtle treated in this way has no fishy smell when it is cooked again.
Soft-shelled turtle is rich in nutrition, containing protein, fat, calcium, iron, animal glue, keratin and various vitamins. It is a rare tonic. Turtle can also be used as medicine, and its back shell has the effects of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, dispersing stagnation and calming the liver, and can treat cough, night sweats, kidney deficiency, amenorrhea and other diseases, while turtle gall can treat hypertension; Eggs can cure chronic diarrhea and dysentery; Supplementing blood can cure malnutrition in children, and there is a folk saying that soft-shelled turtle can cure cancer.
Nutritional analysis
1. Carp and its extract can effectively prevent and inhibit liver cancer, gastric cancer and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and can be used to prevent and treat weakness, anemia and leukopenia caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
2. Soft-shelled turtle also has a good blood purification effect, which can reduce blood cholesterol if eaten regularly, and is beneficial to patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease;
3. Soft-shelled turtle can also "tonify labor, strengthen yang and replenish yin";
4. Eating soft-shelled turtle also has a certain auxiliary effect on patients with tuberculosis, anemia and physical weakness.
Selection of soft-shelled turtle
Look at all parts of the turtle. Excellent soft-shelled turtle with complete appearance, no injury, muscular hypertrophy, shining abdominal armor, blurred back scapula and ribs, thick and upturned skirt, stout legs and agile movements; On the contrary, it is an inferior turtle.
Second, grasp the turtle's anti-leg nest with your hands, such as fast-moving, kicking, fierce and powerful turtles; If the activity is not flexible, the four feet move slightly or even don't move, it is an inferior turtle.
The third inspection is mainly to check whether there is crochet in the turtle neck. Soft-shelled turtle with hook and needle can't be stored for a long time and transported for a long distance. Inspection method: You can stimulate the turtle's head with hard bamboo chopsticks, let it take a bite, then stretch its neck with one hand and touch it with the other.
Fourth, try to turn the tortoise upside down and lay it flat on the ground. If you can turn over quickly, escape quickly and move flexibly, you are a superior turtle; If the turnover is slow and the action is slow, they are all inferior turtles.
Cooking of soft-shelled turtle
Stewed turtle
There is a folk saying in our county that "carp eats meat and turtles drink soup", which means that the purpose of eating carp is to eat its meat, while the purpose of eating turtle (commonly known as "turtle") is to drink soup. Because turtle is rich in nutrition and is most suitable for making soup, it can play a great role, so turtle generally eats soup.
The basic method of turtle soup is to take 1 live turtle (about 1 kg) from the lake. Take half a raw chicken (about 200 grams) and add a little onion, ginger and garlic slices as ingredients. Prepare 50g of clear soup, 0/0g of cooking wine/kloc-,3g of refined salt, 2g of monosodium glutamate, 30g of peanut oil, 5g of sesame oil and 2 pieces of star anise as seasoning.
Chop the head of live soft-shelled turtle, control the blood, wash it, take it out in boiling water, scrape off the black skin, cook it in boiling water for about 5 minutes, take it out, remove the hard cover, take out the five internal organs, chop off the claw tips, chop soft-shelled turtle and chicken into cubes, and blanch it in boiling water. Scrape the dirt and thin skin off the hard skin.
Add peanut oil to the spoon, heat it with high fire, add onion, ginger, garlic slices and octagonal wok, cook clear soup and cooking wine, add turtle and chicken pieces, boil to remove foam, and switch to medium fire for about 45 minutes. When the turtle and chicken pieces are cooked and the soup is milky white, move to high fire and add refined salt, monosodium glutamate and chicken pieces.
Flavor characteristics: the soup is white and yellow with abnormal flavor.
Braised turtle with black chicken
Required materials
500g soft-shelled turtle, black-bone chicken1000g. Salt 20 g monosodium glutamate 2 g pepper 2 g cooking wine 25 g ginger 25 g onion 25 g each.
Making method of braised turtle with black-bone chicken
1. After the turtle is slaughtered and bled, scald it with 70℃ water first;
2. Put it in water at 90℃ and scald it.
3. Scrape off the rough skin on the neck, claws and skirt, cut it along the skirt with a knife, take out the internal organs and rinse it clean.
4. Slaughter the claw tip of the turtle with a knife, then blanch it with boiling water, wash it after coming out of the water, wash and slaughter the black-bone chicken into pieces, and remove the blood with boiling water.
5. Wash the pot and add fresh soup, add black-bone chicken, turtle, salt, pepper, ginger, onion and cooking wine, and simmer slowly until the chicken pieces and turtle are soft and rotten;
6. Pick ginger and onion and adjust the taste.
Tip: 1. When scalding the turtle, you can't use boiling water, otherwise the black film on the turtle is not easy to scrape off;
2. One of the soft-shelled turtle and black-bone chicken is soft, so it must be fished out of the soup first, and the other one will continue to stew;
3. When it is soft, put the fished fish in and cook it.
4. The purpose is to keep the two raw materials consistent in texture and complete in form;
The amount of mixed soup should be consistent with the amount of raw materials, and the soup should be added at one time, otherwise the soup will taste bad.
Nutritional value of stewed turtle with black-bone chicken
Black-bone chicken-also known as black-bone chicken, medicated chicken, Wushan chicken, hairy chicken, fluffy chicken, loose-haired chicken, black-footed chicken, Guan Cong chicken, trousers chicken and bamboo chicken. Black-bone chicken is a kind of pheasant, named because its skin, meat and bone mouth are all black.
Turtle-also known as soft-shelled turtle, water fish, tuanyu, giant fish, Yuan Yu, old turtle and tortoise. Turtle, also known as water fish, tuanyu and giant fish, is a favorite nourishing aquatic food. Whether boiled, stewed or marinated, they are all traditional dishes in Weifang, Shandong Province. According to legend, this dish began in the Qing Dynasty, when there was a squire named Chen in Weifang. In order to nourish the body and prolong life, he cooked it with soft-shelled turtle and chicken with strong nourishing effect, which was delicious. On one occasion, he invited Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" and then the magistrate of Wei County, to have a family dinner, with delicacies and delicacies. After eating, Zheng Banqiao was most satisfied with "stewed chicken with soft-shelled turtle" and repeatedly praised this dish as top grade. Later, the cooking method of this dish spread to a restaurant, where there were sea cucumbers, fish maws, mushrooms and so on. First snuggle up and then stew to make it taste better, which is called "braised turtle". This dish has gradually developed into a famous dish in Weifang area and continues to this day. After foreign guests tasted this dish in Weifang Hotel, they also praised it as "Gao Shou Soup".
Choose turtle, fat hen, pepper oil, Shaoxing wine, onion, ginger, star anise, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil. Slaughter and wash the turtle and chicken separately, put them into a pot together, add water, onion, ginger and star anise, boil them with high fire, then simmer them with low fire and take them out. Remove the meat and bones and cut the meat into strips. Heat a wok, add pepper oil and shredded ginger and onion, fry until yellow, and add soy sauce, broth (boiled turtle chicken soup), Shaoxing wine and monosodium glutamate. Then put the turtle and chicken into the pot, stew for six or seven minutes, and sprinkle with a little sesame oil. Features: Fresh, mellow and nutritious, it is not only a delicious food, but also a nourishing product.