The first method: blanch the whole live sea cucumber in boiled rice elutriation water, take it out quickly, rinse it with clear water, cut open the abdomen, take out the viscera of the sea cucumber and wash it with clear water. Put the rice washing water for the second time in the pot, add the sea cucumber to boil, steam for about four or five minutes on low heat, then take it out and drain it, and you can cook directly.
Precautions: ① It is necessary to boil the sea cucumber with rice, which not only softens the meat quality of the sea cucumber, but also eliminates the fishy smell and cooking aroma of the sea cucumber. (2) After the live sea cucumber is cooked, it should be cooled slowly when fishing, and then the knife should be changed. (3) The live sea cucumbers processed by this method are generally suitable for cold dishes (such as mixing, frying, drunkenness and other cooking techniques), and their representative dishes are cold sea cucumbers, fried sea cucumbers and drunken sea cucumbers. The advantage of this method is that it is easy to process and master the cooking temperature, but the disadvantage is that the taste of live sea cucumber is relatively single, so attention should be paid to seasoning.
The second method: beat the egg white and white sugar of live sea cucumber for a few minutes, then wash it with clear water, put it in a pressure cooker, add broth, star anise, onion and ginger slices to boil, and heat it for about 10 minute. Take out the live sea cucumber and soak it in hot alkaline water for about 4 hours, then take it out, rinse the alkaline water with clear water, and then put it in pure water for about 5 hours. Take out the sea cucumber, gut it, gut it, blanch it with boiling water, and change the knife to shape it.
Matters needing attention: ① The live sea cucumber treated by this method is suitable for hot dishes, and generally adopts the techniques of burning, frying and boiling, and its representative dishes are: burning live sea cucumber with onion, roasting live sea cucumber and so on. ② Mastering the heating time of live sea cucumber in pressure cooker is the key to the success of this method. ③ The live sea cucumbers processed by this method should be processed and cooked now, and the processed live sea cucumbers should not be stored for a long time, otherwise, the live sea cucumbers are prone to dehydration, rot and other phenomena, resulting in waste.