How to kill mussels
1, with a thin and sharp knife into the bottom of the siphon between the clam shell and the clam body.
2. Separate the shell from the mussel along the edge of the shell, making sure to cut off the internal tendons at the top and bottom of the shell.
3. Cut off the dark oval-shaped, egg-sized mussel belly.
4. To remove the tough outer skin that covers the siphon and the meat of the mussel, place the mussel in boiling water for a few seconds, and the skin on the snout will bubble and wrinkle and loosen.
5. Peel off the skin to reveal the tender, edible siphon meat inside.
6. Cut the skinned siphon through the mussel.
7, will be stuck in the clam meat on the brown stains and skin rubbing clean rinse clean rub.
8. Cut the siphon in half lengthwise down the center of the two air holes exposed at the thicker end. Remove and discard the spongy object from the mussel body.
9, the cleaned siphon mussels cut into thin slices, chilled can be used to make sashimi or shabu-shabu hot pot, the meat is sweet, tender, crisp, seafood restaurants in the top of the delicious.
How to make good mussels
Ingredients: 1 mussel, soy sauce king moderate.
Methods:
1, take the mussels 1, remove the shells to take the meat, cut into slices
2, the pot of boiling water, and so the water boiled, put into the cut to take the mussels slices of meat, and then immediately fish out the plate.
3, mixed with soy sauce king appropriate amount can be.
What is the nutrition of mussels
1, mussels are rich in protein, can effectively maintain the body's potassium balance, as well as have the effect of eliminating edema;
2, mussels are rich in a large number of vitamins, amino acids, a variety of trace elements, etc., eating can improve the human body immune system, lowering blood pressure, buffer anemia, and so on, to help the human body!
3, Chinese medicine believes that the elephant trunk clam also has the treatment of lung deficiency cough, kidney deficiency for asthma, deficiency cough, kidney deficiency impotence effect. This product is moist and not dry, tonifying the kidney to help the sun can also benefit the blood, have the effect of solidifying the root of the cultivation.
How to pick the mussels
1, see the meat color
Although the fresh mussels can not see the old and young, but made of dried mussels after the color is different. The younger mussels made of dried meat color is lighter, light brown, while the darker, blackish dried mussels is the old mussels.
2, look at the size
dried elephant mussels are too big or too small are not good, 15-20cm long dried product is the most appropriate size.
3, look at the degree of meat thickness
The thicker the body of the dried mussels, the thicker the tube, the fuller the texture of the dishes eaten. The thinner the meat, the thinner the tube of dried mussels taste worse.
4, look at the degree of dryness
Touch the dry dried mussels is well-preserved, no moisture of the top quality, touch very sticky hands of the dried products may be added sugar, so the dried mussels naturally not as good as the original flavor.
5, distinguish the origin
Selection of dried mussels, but also to distinguish the origin, our dried mussels mainly from Canada, the United States and Mexico, with the Canadian mussels taste the best, made of dried products of course, the quality is also the best.