Every year in mid to late June (around the summer solstice) to the beginning of August (around the beginning of the fall) this time is the period of the golden cicadas in abundance, the robin, also known as the robin monkey, grasshopper, cicada, cicada, cicada, cicada, and so on, it is what we call cicadas of the wakame, known as the reputation of the Tang dynasty monk meat.
It has a very high food value and medicinal value, especially the freshly emerged worms contain the highest protein, which is very good nutrition. And the fat content is only 10.32%, the whole potassium content of 0.3%, the whole phosphorus content of 0.58%, calcium content of 16.5 mg / kg, zinc content of 82.2 mg / kg. It can be seen that the golden cicada worms contain protein than any animal meat and eggs are much higher; and because it also contains a variety of nutrients essential to the human body, to promote growth and development, replenish the body metabolism of the consumption of the body, the recovery of patients with physical weakness, etc., have excellent auxiliary therapeutic effect, so it has become a rare natural pollution-free high-level nutritional food. Many high-grade hotels have put cicadas on the table, as health food, the price is getting higher and higher, is a rare high-protein, low-fat game delicacies.
In addition to the food value of the monkey, there is a very high medicinal value, robin has a tonic kidney, clearing heat and detoxification effect, can be used for the treatment of enuresis, enteritis, hoarseness and other diseases. And the shell is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. According to the "Chinese herbal medicine" records, the cicada wakame is beneficial to the spermatozoa and yang, quenching thirst and generating fluids, preserving the lungs and benefiting the kidneys, antibacterial and antihypertensive, and treating baldness and suppressing cancer, etc. Cicada metamorphosis is rich in chitin, isosceliac pteridine, erythrocyanopterin, adenosine triphosphatase, and it has the efficacy of wind dispersal and dissipation of heat, transmitting rashes, retreating cataracts, relieving guilt, replenishing the kidneys, purging heat and removing toxins, and it is often used in the treatment of externally induced wind-heat, coughing and muffled sound, sore throat, itching of wind rashes, redness of eyes and cataracts, tetanus urination, enteritis, pediatric eclampsia, nocturnal crying, etc., is a commonly used Chinese medicinal herbs, it can be said that the cicada wakame is all treasure.
Fried robin's meat
The robin's meat is crispy and flavorful after frying. You can also use bamboo skewers to put the monkeys on skewers, control the water, and finally put them on the grill to cook. The roasted monkeys are crispy and flavorful, making them a rare delicacy.
Raw materials: 150 grams of live monkeys, 100 grams of olive oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, chili powder.
Practice: robin monkey poured into the vegetable basin, wash away sediment with water, and then take out the clean robin monkey, sprinkled with some fine salt marinade for half a day. (You can also take live robin monkey, under the boiling water pot scalded to death, fished out, soaked with water to wash clean. Soak them in salt water for a few hours or boil them in a pot of salted water for a while.) Add olive oil to the pot, not too much, the frying pan is heated to 40% hot and then deep fried, deep fried until crispy, until the cicada coat becomes golden brown when it is almost ready, oil control and fish out to plate for use. Then sprinkle fine salt and monosodium glutamate, cumin, chili powder is ready.
Note: Be sure to wash the robin monkeys and remove the mud on the body. Mainly head pits more concave, available faucet rinse, must be soaked in salt water will be some hours monkey, sterilization, mainly because the flavor will be more delicious.