2.1. Dried clams mixed with celery

Materials: 4g of clams, 1g of celery, 3g of pepper (red and sharp), 1g of cooking wine, 2g of pepper, 15g of shrimp oil and 3g of salt.

practice: peel celery, remove tendons, wash it, cut it into diamond dices, dice red pepper, and soak the clams in the sun until soft; Blanch diced celery in boiling water. When the boiling water is too cold, mix diced celery, clam meat and diced pepper with seasoning and serve.

2.2. Small tofu with clam meat

Ingredients: clam soybean, radish, egg, chives, ginger slices with onion and Chili oil.

Practice: Add the soaked soybeans into mineral water and fry them into soybean juice and soybean dregs with a juicer. Steam the squeezed soybean juice and dregs together for 15 minutes and take them out for later use. Boil the sand-spit clams with clear water to get clam meat and clam soup for later use, peel the green radish, cut it into short silk, and soak it in water for later use. Take the peanut oil out of the pan, add the steamed soybean juice, dregs and eggs under the chopped green onion, fry it slightly, then add clam meat, shredded radish, clam soup, salt and monosodium glutamate, and stew for 1 minutes until the shredded radish is soft and rotten before serving.

2. Correct cleaning method of dried clams

First, simply rinse the dried clams with running water to wash away the dust and other dirty things on its surface, and then soak them in appropriate amount of cold water until they become soft. You can also soak in warm water, which is fast but loses a lot of umami.

After the dried clams are soaked until they are soft, you can start cleaning the sand inside them. The black part of the dried clams is sandbags, and all the sand sucked by the clams is in it. You can choose to dig it out and throw it away, and then scrub the dried clams several times to be clean.

The clams' sandbags are edible, so keep them if you don't want to waste them. However, if you leave sandbags, you have to cut a hole in the sandbags and rub them several times to clean them.

It is suggested to keep the clean water of the dried clams. It is very fresh to make a clear soup after clarification, because many umami substances in the dried clams will be lost into the water during soaking. Therefore, the time of soaking dried clams should be shortened as much as possible, and the longer the soaking time, the more umami will be lost.

3. How long does it take to soak the dried clams

It takes 24 hours to soak the dried clams.

suggestion: the clam spit sand can be soaked in vinegar or sesame oil (2 ounces of vinegar or 1 ounce of sesame oil for 1 kilograms of clam) for 24 hours. The meat of the clam is usually cooked, that is, the clam should be put in boiling water until it opens its mouth and then taken out, and then the meat is stripped.

the nutritional value and efficacy of clams

1. Clams are not only delicious, but also comprehensive in nutrition, so they are inexpensive seafood. It is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, iron, phosphorus, iodine, vitamins, amino acids and taurine, and it is a high-protein and low-calorie food. Clam is the best food to prevent and treat chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly people.

2. Clam tastes salty and cold, and has the functions of diuresis and detumescence, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, softening hard mass and resolving hard mass. According to the records of clams in medical books, "Clams can moisten the five internal organs, quench thirst and stimulate appetite because of their nourishing nature. Salt can enter the blood and become soft and firm, so the housewife's blood clot and old addiction are also cold and heat.

3. According to modern medicine, clam meat stewed with cooked food three times a day can effectively treat diabetes. Clam meat and leek can be used to treat dry cough, thirst, upset, hand, foot and heart fever caused by yin deficiency. Regular eating of clams also has a certain therapeutic effect on jaundice, goiter, poor urination, abdominal distension and other diseases.

4. Clams have the nutritional characteristics of high trace elements, high protein, high iron, high calcium and low fat, so eating clams can effectively supplement various nutritional elements such as calcium and iron. Therefore, clams are very suitable for people with calcium deficiency and anemia.

how to store the dried seafood

1. Store the dried seafood in the refrigerator. After buying it, use a fresh-keeping box or seal a fresh-keeping bag and put it in the fresh-keeping or refrigerating compartment of the refrigerator.

2. Dry seafood in containers. If you don't want to put it in the refrigerator, dry it as much as possible before sealing it. If the bought dry goods are a little damp but the climate is not good enough to be dried naturally, there is a quick way: put the dry goods in containers, put them in a microwave oven for 2 ~ 3 seconds, take them out and spread them on a newspaper and let them cool completely (newspapers are needed, because this process will regain moisture and newspapers can absorb water). If the dry goods are found to have tiny enzymes due to improper disposal, they can be wiped with a small amount of water with a toothbrush and dried. Remember not to bask in the sun, which will seriously affect the quality.

3. You should choose a good sealed bag to put in the refrigerator, but you should pay attention to the odor, so you must choose a good quality or thicker sealed bag when sealing, which can not only ensure the freshness of dry goods, but also ensure the hygiene and cleanliness of the refrigerator. It can be said that you can kill two birds with one stone.