The correct way to cook cicada molt is to soak the cicada molt in water for 30 minutes, and then rinse it repeatedly with water to remove impurities and sediment from the cicada molt.

Pour enough water into a pot, add a proper amount of salt, and place the pot on the fire to boil. Put the cleaned cicada molts into the pot and boil for 2-3 minutes, then remove from the pot. Soak the boiled cicada molts in water for 10-20 minutes to make them cleaner. Then you can choose different cooking methods according to your personal taste, such as stir-frying, deep-frying, boiling soup and so on.

It should be noted that enough salt should be added to the cicada molt during cooking to remove the bitter flavor of cicada molt. In addition, when cooking, you need to choose the appropriate cooking method according to the texture and taste of cicada molts, and control the fire so as not to overcook and affect the taste. You should choose cicada molts with good origin, excellent environment and guaranteed quality, and avoid buying products of unknown origin or poor quality.

Precautions for choosing and buying cicada molts

1, Appearance: You should choose cicada molts that are complete in appearance, without breakage, moth-eaten, and without disease spots.

2, color: the color of cicada molt should be transparent or light yellow, if the color is not normal, it may indicate that the cicada molt has been deteriorated or added other substances.

3, size: the size of cicada shells should be moderate, too small cicada shells may be of poor quality, while too large cicada shells may be too fast-growing, poor quality.

4, dryness: should choose the dryness of the cicada molt moderate, too wet cicada molt may be poor quality, and too dry cicada molt may appear crack phenomenon.

5, taste: you should smell whether the cicada molt has a light fragrance, if there is any odor or moldy taste, you should avoid buying.