The horseshoe crab soup
The horseshoe crab is an ancient living fossil, also known as the "Oriental horseshoe crab". It has six pairs of flaky swimming limbs on its ventral surface, and a pair of gills on each of the last five pairs for breathing function. Legend has it that when Zheng He sailed to the West in the Ming Dynasty, a sailor on the ship fell in love with the daughter of a local chief in the ancient city. The two were poisoned by the chief with blue leaf juice and thrown into the sea. At this time, Guanyin Bodhisattva saw them while traveling and thought of their love and loyalty, so he turned them into "Eastern Horseshoe Crabs". Therefore, both male and female horseshoe crabs stay together until death, and when the wind blows to the mainland in June or July, they will return to the shoals and reefs of their homeland with the tide to lay eggs. A horseshoe crab catcher can take a mandarin duck horseshoe crab with him as long as he catches the sword tail of a horseshoe crab. The whole body of the horseshoe crab can be eaten. The horseshoe crab soup is mixed with minced garlic, mustard and other accompaniments. After one bowl, you will want to eat more. However, the horseshoe crab soup is cold in nature and should not be eaten in excess.
1. Raw materials
1. Main ingredient: 1 horseshoe crab.
2. Accessories: 10 grams of MSG, 5 grams of refined salt, 100 grams of starch, a little ginger sprouts, garlic paste, mustard paste, ginger juice, mature vinegar, and chili sauce.
2. Preparation method
1. Put the horseshoe crab into a basin and slaughter it (do not break the intestines), take out the horseshoe crab meat, horseshoe crab paste, and feet and chop them into small pieces with a knife. , cut the ginger buds into thin strips and soak them in water. Put the horseshoe crab blood in a plate, add ginger slices and scallions, steam until it is coagulated and cooked, take it out, slice it and eat it.
2. Put the pot on high heat, pour about 1200 grams of water, and add horseshoe crab meat, horseshoe crab paste, and horseshoe crab legs. After boiling, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger juice, dilute starch with water and slowly pour it into the pot, push evenly until it becomes a thick paste, and put it into a basin.
3. When eating, you can add garlic paste, mature vinegar, mustard paste, ginger sprouts, etc. according to your personal taste.
Features: This dish has a tender texture and a special flavor of sweet and glutinous, fresh and mellow, light and spicy.
1. Horseshoe crab meat is delicious, and its intestines run through the head and tail. It contains a large molecule non-specific protein allergenic substance. Eating horseshoe crab can cause allergic rashes, redness, swelling and itching on the skin. In severe cases, it can lead to anaphylactic shock or fatal toxic reactions. The mortality rate from poisoning is high. This phenomenon was consistent with the "Preliminary Report on the Toxicity Survey of Horseshoe Crabs along the Guangxi Coast" reported by Liang Guangyao and others of the Guangxi Institute of Oceanography in the third issue of the "Chinese Journal of Marine Medicine" in 1988.
2． The flesh of horseshoe crab contains a large amount of endocyclic amide purine chemicals. According to modern medical research, purine substances are an important cause of the development of gout when they are not completely metabolized or accumulated in the body.
3. The main component of horseshoe crab plasma is hemocyanin, and each 1ml of hemocyanin contains 0.28~0.31 mg of heavy metal organic copper (Cu2) (depending on the length of time the horseshoe crab is out of the water). Calculated based on the average body weight ratio of each (male and female) horseshoe crab, the plasma and meat of adult horseshoe crabs contain 600 to 1300 mg of copper (Cu2) respectively. Medical research shows that after being ingested by the human body, heavy metals (Cu2) will flow with the blood circulation and then accumulate in the liver and kidneys. In people with liver and kidney dysfunction, ingestion will accelerate liver cell necrosis and cause cirrhosis. Cause complications such as renal failure and ammonia poisoning. In addition, (Cu2) quality can also cause hematopoietic dysfunction in the human body and even affect the nervous system of young children, causing abnormal development.