How long does it take to cook conch?
Cook the big conch 10- 15 minutes, and cook the small conch for 3-5 minutes. Boiled conch is tender and delicious, and it is a favorite dish by everyone. Conch meat is a good ingredient, which can be wrapped in jiaozi, steamed stuffed buns and fried. It is a seafood that can be eaten all year round. If there is no sea water, you can soak the conch in salt water to spit sand, or you can drop a few drops of sesame oil in the water. If the taste is light, you can add no salt. Boil water into the pot, strictly control the cooking time, don't cook for a long time, otherwise the taste will be old and the meat will go bad easily.
The method of frying conch in sauce and oil
1. Wash conch with a brush, soak it in cold water with a little sesame oil or salt for about 2 hours, and let it spit out intestinal sediment.
2. Shred green pepper, red pepper, onion and ginger for later use.
3. soak the conch in boiling water and quickly pick it up for use.
4. Put the oil in the pot. When the oil temperature is 50% hot, add onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant. Then add the sauce. After the sauce is fragrant, add conch and stir fry.
5. Pour some cooking wine during cooking. When the lid of conch begins to open, add sugar and chicken essence to stir fry, and add green pepper before cooking.
Matters needing attention in eating conch.
Eating conch requires decapitation.
The substance secreted by conch brain can cause food poisoning, so head should be removed before eating. Improper consumption of conch can cause human food poisoning, which has long been confirmed by epidemiological investigation. But the substance that causes food poisoning is not in the meat of conch, but the substance secreted by brain nerve, so just remove the head of conch when cooking.
You must cook conch.
Conch is easy to hide germs and parasites, so it should be cooked for more than 10 minutes before eating to prevent infection by germs and parasites.
Pay attention to the food with conch.
Conch should not be eaten with beef and mutton, broad beans, pork, clams, noodles, corn, wax gourd, cantaloupe, fungus and sugar. Therefore, this kind of food should be avoided within 2 hours before and after eating conch.
Nutritional value of conch
Conch is a soft-bodied gastropod, which is mostly found in the coastal shallow sea bottom. It is mostly found in Shandong, Liaoning and Hebei, and its spawning period is from May to August. Conch shell is slightly square in outline, large and thick, with the shell as high as 10 cm, spiral layer 6, almond-red shell mouth and pearl luster. Snail meat is plump, delicate and delicious. Known as the "pearl in the plate." It is rich in nutritional value, protein, vitamins, amino acids and essential trace elements. It is a typical natural animal health food with high protein, low fat and high calcium.
In terms of efficacy, snail meat is rich in vitamin A, protein, iron, calcium and other nutritional primary colors. It has obvious dietotherapy effect on diseases such as pinkeye, jaundice, beriberi and hemorrhoids. It has certain curative effect on heartache, lung heat and lung dryness, blurred vision and so on.
Especially for pregnant mothers, in such a special period, eating more conch is not only an excellent nutritional supplement for mothers, but also good for the children in their bellies! But don't eat conch after delivery, remember!
Nutrients of conch (nutrient content/100g): calories (kcal)137; Protein (grams) 24; Fat (g) 4; Cholesterol (mg) 65; Unsaturated fatty acid (g) 0.15; Sodium salt (mg) 206.