The nutrition of salted sea cucumber is still quite good, but salted sea cucumber has lost part of its nutrition in the process of making, and when eating salted sea cucumber, it should be soaked for a period of time to soak off the excess salt of salted sea cucumber, so that salted sea cucumber tastes less salty, then let's learn more about salted sea cucumber.

Difference between salted sea cucumber and lightly dried sea cucumber

Salted sea cucumber and lightly dried sea cucumber are not the same, so what is the difference between salted and lightly dried sea cucumber?

Salted sea cucumber refers to the sea cucumber that is salted after the fresh sea cucumber is processed and heated uniformly in a sandwich pot under certain temperature conditions to a suitable fire. Processing technology is fresh sea cucumber to remove the viscera and wash and cook in the pot for about 10 minutes, put into the container and add brine, and put in the refrigerator for long-term preservation without any preservatives, which can fully retain the flavor of fresh sea cucumber.

Lightly dried sea cucumber is a sea cucumber product made from fresh sea cucumber by removing the internal organs, washing, boiling, shrinking and natural drying. Lightly dried sea cucumber is dried sea cucumber with salt content of 5%-10%, which is the main product of sea cucumber nowadays, and it is also the best dried sea cucumber with high hydration. Lightly dried sea cucumber has well defined epidermis and peduncle (the sucker of sea cucumber) with black or gray appearance. Lightly dried sea cucumber is processed by boiling the raw sea cucumber, baking, solarization and finally steaming until dry.

How to Soak Sea Cucumber in Salt

Salt sea cucumber has to be soaked before it is made, so how to soak sea cucumber in salt?

Wash the salted sea cucumber, follow the abdomen of the sea cucumber that has been cut, cut the whole abdomen of the sea cucumber, remove the white sea cucumber tendons and white sand mouth in the abdomen of the sea cucumber, and then put the sea cucumber into clean water to soak for 1 day, mainly to make the salt overflow in the body of the sea cucumber.

Put the soaked sea cucumber into the rice cooker and simmer it with water for about 30 minutes, or put it into other pots without pressure to simmer it, but the simmering time should be prolonged, and the amount of water in the pot should be at least twice of the height of the volume of the sea cucumber, and it is better to add more than less, and the remaining amount of water in the pot should be kept to the extent that it does not exceed the volume of the sea cucumber after the heating is completed. After the stewing is finished, use chopsticks to pierce the sea cucumber, if it can be easily pierced, the process is over. If it can't be pierced or the sea cucumber shrinks compared to before the stewing, it means that the stewing time is still not enough, so continue to heat the stewing for 10 more minutes to achieve the effect of being pierced.

How to eat salted sea cucumber

There is more than one way to eat salted sea cucumber.

Make a salted sea cucumber porridge. First of all, the salted sea cucumber has been processed for slicing, and then put aside, the millet porridge cooked, and then the sea cucumber has been sliced and poured into the millet porridge, continue to simmer the pot, the approximate time for about five minutes, and then you can eat it directly, and you can also according to the individual's taste to add some seasoning, such as salt, ginger and so on.

Horseradish sea cucumber. First of all, the salted sea cucumber has been processed and sliced, and the sea cucumber has been cooked, and then put the sea cucumber slices on top of the ice cubes, prepare horseradish, mix horseradish and Aji Fresh, as a seasoning for consumption, and then directly mix the sea cucumber slices and horseradish and can be consumed after mixing.

Direct consumption. This method is relatively simple, that is, the salted sea cucumber is well developed, and then cooked, according to personal taste to eat, for example, can be dipped in milk to eat, or dipped in honey to eat.

How to store sea cucumbers in salted form

If you want to keep sea cucumbers in salted form, you have to store them properly.

Sea cucumbers have always been regarded as a good tonic, but also a delicious dish at banquets, which is highly respected. Salted sea cucumber is made from fresh sea cucumber after salting treatment, which is easy to preserve. There are many ways to preserve salted sea cucumber, if it will be eaten in a short period of time, you can use the water into a container and refrigerate it for a week at a temperature of zero to four degrees without deterioration; if you want to preserve it for a long time, you can use the freezing method, seal it and put it into the refrigerator at minus four degrees, and it can be preserved for at least half a year.

After the sea cucumber is purchased, it needs to be soaked in advance to be eaten, and if the salted sea cucumber is not eaten, the preservation of the sea cucumber is a big problem, and it can only be preserved for three days after it is soaked in water, and it can only be preserved in the refrigerator for seven to ten days. If you don't want to eat it for a long time, you can wrap it up with plastic wrap and put it in the freezer directly after removing the water, so that you can keep it for a long time without deterioration, and then take it out and melt it when you want to eat it again without having to soak it in advance.