Dead clams can be eaten, but they don't taste very good and don't have the chewy meat of fresh clams. So if you find that the clams are dead, it's important to dispose of them as soon as possible. Should not be placed too long, if the time is too long seafood body will generate a toxin, with the toxin can not be eaten again, it is easy to life-threatening.
In fact, after the fresh clams bought back, can be raised at home for about 2 to 3 days. If they die overnight, either you handled them incorrectly or these clams were not fresh when you bought them again. You should prepare a large pot for the clams you bought, then connect a pot of water and leave it for half an hour.
This process is called spitting, which can spit out all the sand in the body of the clams so that they taste better after cooking. The clams can be raised for about two days, and then you can handle the clams in accordance with your needs. When dealing with clams, you have to get rid of the sandbags on the body of the clams. Because the sandbag is full of mud and sand, the taste will be very bad.
Otherwise it will have a very strong earthy flavor when made. When you make clams, you need to use green onion, ginger, garlic and cooking wine. The cooking wine can remove the fishy flavor of the clams, and the green onion, ginger and garlic can bring up the fresh flavor of the clams. If you like spicy flavor, you can put some more millet pepper rings and green peppercorns into it.
Before doing the clams, you need to heat up the pan and put in the oil, then put the prepared onion, ginger and garlic into the pan and stir-fry, stir-fry the flavor and then put in the clams and stir-fry quickly over high heat. Then add salt, cooking wine and vinegar. Stir frying time is not too long, because the clam meat is relatively tender, it is easy to cook cooked, about 5 minutes on the fried.
After frying, put the clams on a plate, and then put on a plate with chopped pepper rings and green peppercorns. Then start a pot of boiling oil, and when the oil is hot, pour it directly on the millet pepper rings and peppers, hot oil can stimulate the flavor of millet pepper rings and peppers, so that the taste is better. This is a plate of fresh and delicious fried clams are ready.