Main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients]
1000g of grass worms, 200g of shelled eggs
75g of fat barbecued pork, 50g of fried dough sticks
Fried 50 grams of garlic, 1.5 grams of tangerine peel
5 grams of lemon leaves, 25 grams of olive wedges
7.5 grams of refined salt, 5 grams of MSG
5 grams of brown sugar, 2 pepper grams
5 grams of sesame oil, 100 grams of peanut oil
[Cooking method]
1. Wash the grass worms, pick them up, and gently suck them on with a clean towel water, put it into a clay bowl, add 100 grams of peanut oil, and let it sit for 10 minutes.
2. Cut the barbecued pork into medium-sized pieces, wash the olive wedges into coarse pieces, and cut the fried dough sticks crosswise into 5 mm pieces. Cut the lemon leaves into thin strips.
3. Put the eggs, barbecued pork, fried dough sticks, minced tangerine peel, garlic, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, pepper, and sesame oil into the rice worm earthenware bowl, mix well, put it into the steamer and use medium heat. Simmer for about 1 hour until cooked, put on a small stove and bake over low heat to dry out the water, pour 50 grams of oil, sprinkle with pepper and lemon shreds and serve.
[Key to the process]
1. The grass worm is as soft as an egg, with a greenish-yellow appearance and a white slurry inside. It is produced from the roots of Shatian grass on the seaside.
2. Olive horn is a type of olive produced in Guangdong. The color is purple and black. It is collected and processed into Terminalia striata in summer and autumn, and its core can be obtained from Terminalia sibiricum. It is one of the famous foods in Lingnan.
3. Preparation method of fried garlic meat: Peel the garlic, cut off both ends, and fry in mature oil until golden brown.
4. When eating stewed grass worms, do not add soy sauce, otherwise it will affect the flavor.
[Flavor characteristics]
1. The grass insect is a kind of lugworm. The body is clearly segmented, and both sides of the body segment protrude into wart legs with bristles, which are used for movement. Can swim. The body length is about 10 cm. Usually inhabits mud and sand. They swim out of the water only during the reproductive season or when they go out to look for food at night. There are many species along the coasts of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea in my country, and there are many species of the same genus. The Japanese Nereis, which is found in the Yangtze River Estuary, is called "Water Baijiao". In autumn, it often travels upriver from the sea or to the fields to reproduce. Grass insects in Guangdong emerge on the tide every year in April and August of the lunar calendar. Always a delicacy on the plate. "Shunde County Chronicle" records: "Grainworms are delicious when made into sauce or pickled and dried in the sun." Chen Zhang, a scholar from Changzhou, wrote in a poem written by Zhuzhi: "Cantonese people are addicted to fish by nature, and they have no time to cook and scrape the wok. This is why How come scholars have so many different natures and flavors? Nowadays, grass insects are also cooked in the south. ”
2. This product is in the form of a paste, with worm strips and paste evenly interlaced, golden in color, delicious in taste, high in protein, and rich in nutrients. It is a favorite of all ages in the Pearl River Delta.