Can pregnant women eat raw sea urchins?
You can eat sea urchins during pregnancy, but you can't eat sea urchins raw. There are many microbial parasites in raw seafood, which will threaten your baby. * * * Can pregnant women eat razor clam? It is not advisable to eat razor clams when pregnant.
Not all sea urchins are edible, and many species are poisonous. These sea urchins look much more beautiful than nontoxic sea urchins. For example, the ring-spined sea urchin, which grows between coral reefs in the South China Sea, has black and white stripes on its thick spines and yellow spines on its thin spines. There are white and green ribbons on the spines of young sea urchins, which are shining, and a barb grows at the tip of the fine spines. Once it penetrates into the panel, the poison will be injected into the human body, and the fine thorn will be broken in the flesh, making the panel red, swollen and painful.
Eating taboos of sea urchins
Sea urchin yellow dissolves easily. After the sea urchin is caught and left in the air for half a day to one day, the sea urchin yellow may be soft and metamorphic and inedible. Therefore, sea urchins caught from the sea are either eaten immediately or stored in seawater in containers for immediate use. In order to ensure food safety, it should be noted that raw sea urchins must be collected from clean and pollution-free sea areas in addition to being fresh.
Sea urchin diet therapy health care
Chinese medicine believes that sea urchin yellow has the effects of strengthening essence, strengthening yang, benefiting heart, strengthening bone and enriching blood. People in our country regard it as the first-class tonic in seafood, which is known as eating sea urchin yellow to nourish and strengthen the body. It is said that it can refresh the mind and enhance energy, and it is especially favored by some men. Some people call it "the essence of the sea". According to ancient records, the alchemist of Taoism in the Ming Dynasty used sea urchins as raw materials to refine the "Yun Dan" with strong essence and aphrodisiac, and presented it to the imperial court.
Tips for eating
Sea urchin yellow is usually eaten raw. Cut open the shell of sea urchin, pick fresh sea urchin yellow and taste it directly or dip it in seasoning, which is extremely delicious.
In the coastal areas of China, fishermen like the custom of pickling sauce directly with sea urchin yellow. And the sauce can be stored for about several months without spoilage. Nowadays, the most common way for Dalian residents to eat is to use fresh sea urchin yellow as soup, stir-fry it with ordinary eggs or steam it directly, and wrap jiaozi with sea urchin yellow.
There are four kinds of edible sea urchins naturally growing along the coast of Dalian, among which purple sea urchin lays eggs in April and May and horse manure sea urchin lays eggs in November and December. Therefore, sea urchin yellow listed in these two periods is the most plump. However, in recent years, artificial breeding has been successful, so sea urchins are listed in all seasons. Because of the convenient transportation, even in the mainland, you can taste fresh sea urchin yellow all year round.
The practice of sea urchin
1, sea urchin porridge
Ingredients: a few sea urchins, a piece of rice left, a few basil leaves, a spoonful of sweet and sour ginger, a teaspoon of salt 1 4, and white pepper1teaspoon.
Practice: add 3-4 times of water to the leftover rice, boil it on high fire, turn to low heat and cook again 15 minutes; In the meantime, peel off the sea urchin yellow for use. Add the sea urchin to the thick porridge and stir it up, not too hard, or it will all be broken. Turn to medium heat and cook for 5 minutes. Finally, add chopped basil leaves, sweet and sour shredded ginger, white pepper and salt to taste.
2. Sea urchin fried rice
Ingredients: 80 grams of fresh sea urchin, 30 grams of ginger, one egg, moderate amount of cabbage, normal rice for two people, and moderate amount of shallots.
Practice: Mix ginger and sea urchin meat evenly for later use. Beat the eggs, pour oil into the pot, put the eggs into the pot when it is 50% hot, fry them in one direction and put them out for later use. Wash the cabbage, take the root and cut it into small pieces * * * close to granular * * * for later use. Mix the mixed sea urchins with scallion oil. Stir-fry ginger into paste, add eggs and cabbage and stir-fry constantly. Add rice and stir well. Add some salt to taste.
3. Steamed eggs with sea urchin
Ingredients: proper amount of sea urchin and eggs.
Practice: add the same amount of water to the eggs and break them up. Put it in a steamer and steam it until it is 67% mature, that is, when it has just solidified. Spread the sea urchin yellow, steam it for about 5 minutes, and the sea urchin yellow will change color and harden. Sea urchin yellow itself has a slight fresh salty taste, and it can be used without any seasoning. Dig it down with a spoon when eating, and the delicious taste of sea urchin and custard will be between each bite.