There are two common kinds of cooking at home: steaming and making soup.
Steaming: After the soft-shelled turtle is washed, the bottom is upward, and ginger slices, yellow wine, salt, a little soy sauce and rock sugar are added. Boil the water, steam the turtle in the water until the skirt is crisp and rotten.
To make soup: Chop the soft-shelled turtle, put it in a pot with cold water, boil it, add yellow wine and onion ginger to remove the fishy smell, then simmer on low heat until the soft-shelled turtle is cooked, and add a little pepper, salt and monosodium glutamate.
Soft-shelled turtle is not very fresh, so consider braising in soy sauce.
How to kill a turtle ~
Turn the turtle upside down, and then the turtle's head will naturally stick out (because the turtle will stick out its head when it is turned over), so we will grab the turtle's head and cut a knife at the turtle's throat. After the turtle suffocates, unload its shell with a sharp knife. And gut him.
How to choose a 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.
How to be a 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.