Generally regular-sized scallops can be steamed for about 5 minutes after the water boils.
If the scallops are bigger or the steamer is smaller, you need to steam them for a little longer, but not more than 10 minutes at most, or they will be old. In addition, the process of steaming scallops should always use high heat, if the fire is not enough or the steaming time is too short, it can not kill the scallops in the pathogenic bacteria and parasites.
2 Steaming scallops with cold or hot water
It is recommended to steam the scallops in a pot after the water has boiled.
The flavor of scallops is delicious, tender meat, if the cold water in the pot to steam, in the process of heating, scallop meat will be gradually warming up the process of slowly tighten, steamed out of the texture will become old, not so tender; and the water boiled in the pot to steam, can reduce the heating time, fast scallop steamed, eat up meat more tender.
3 scallops in the shell is steamed or boiled
steamed better, for the following reasons:
1. scallops of tender meat, steamed to eat to retain its tender taste, and retain the original flavor of seafood. And shellfish cooked to eat mainly with dried shellfish, used to soup refreshment, the shell of fresh scallops cooked to eat some of the waste.
2. Scallop shells are uneven, with a lot of sand on the surface, dirt, it is difficult to clean completely, steamed to eat due to only eat the meat inside the shell, relatively clean. But if you cook with the shell, it is easy to cook the dirt on the surface of the scallop shell into the soup, seeping into the scallop meat, affecting the taste, but also not clean.
4 Steamed scallops
Ingredients: 6 scallops, vermicelli, bell peppers, garlic, spicy edamame, steamed fish oil moderate.
Practice steps:
1. Use a brush to brush both sides of the shell, and then pry the scallop shells open, remove the scallop guts, leaving the meat, rinse with water, and marinate the shell meat in cooking wine and a little salt for a few minutes.
2. The fans will be softened with boiling water, and then soaked in cool water.
3. Wash the garlic cloves, bell peppers were cut into pieces, and then add salt to the garlic powder and stir
4. Put the fans in the scallop shells around the circle, and then put the marinated scallop meat on the top, and then the garlic powder evenly smeared in the scallop meat, and then the top of the point on the end of the bell peppers, poured with black bean paste, and if you like spicy, you can add a little bit of spicy edamame.
6. Steamer pot with water, water boiled and put scallops, steam on high heat for 5 minutes.