Giant salamander, whose scientific name is giant salamander, is a national second-class protected aquatic wild animal. According to the law, only the offspring of artificially bred giant salamander can eat and sell, and both breeding and selling in restaurants must obtain a license.

What is the selling point of this legendary living fossil as food?

"Giant salamander has very high requirements for the growth environment. It likes cool, clean and quiet. It needs to live in cold water at low temperature, and needs to be fed with live fish and shrimp to imitate the wild environment. It takes about 3 years to grow to 1 kg. " Guo Yuanzeng, executive chef of Lingnan private banquet in Marco Polo Ro Hotel, Foshan, told the reporter that it has been recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that giant salamander has the effects of intelligence, beauty beauty, nourishing blood and qi, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney; The skin of giant salamander is rich in collagen, which is the favorite of beauty lovers.

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Five delicious and nutritious ways to eat

The delicious giant salamander always makes people drool. In order to present the original flavor of his meat as much as possible and uncover the mystery of cooking, Bian Xiao invited chefs from Dongguan and Foshan to recommend five delicious and healthy practices for you today.

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Stewed baby fish head soup with gastrodia elata

Chinese medicine believes that: soup, swing also. Medicine and food have the same origin, so adding medicinal ingredients into soup can be absorbed by human body more easily. Soup is the essence of Cantonese cuisine.

"Gastrodia stewed fish head soup is a home-cooked dish in Guangdong. The fish head is very tender. In addition to protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin B 1, it also contains lecithin, which can enhance memory, thinking and analytical ability; Gastrodia elata has the effects of calming the heart and calming the nerves, benefiting qi and nourishing the liver. "

Guo Yuanzeng said that putting the doll's fish head in the soup is just like the usual fish head soup. Fry the fish head first and then cook it. The soup is rich, fresh and not fishy. After the fish head is fried, add pork, ribs and gastrodia elata, stew together for 4 hours, and serve.

The fish head of the doll has little meat, but it has a layer of fish skin rich in collagen. The stew is sweet, and the fish skin is crisp and chewy. This bowl full of collagen makes the skin less wrinkled.