Yellow clams are seafood that live mainly in the shallow waters of the Yellow Sea, especially in the northeast people often eat a kind of seafood, steamed, boiled or barbecued are very delicious. Yellow clams and other shellfish like, before doing are required to spit sand, so that eating will not eat a mouthful of sand. So what is the best way to get it to spit out the sand?

What can yellow clams use to spit out the sand

First, wash the surface deposits with water to prevent yellow clams from eating back. Then add water to soak the yellow clams, add 25 grams of salt, three drops of sesame oil, 25 grams of 60-degree white wine in one pound of yellow clams, and then leave it for 15 minutes. Then change the water to wash. At this point, the sand is basically spit out.

You can also roughly clean the yellow clams and then boil them in cold water. When it opens, quickly fish out the yellow clams, strip off the flesh, and open them one by one. Wash them two or three times in warm water to wash away any sand and debris and to drain.

What to do if the clams don't open their mouths and spit out the sand

You can try to fasten two stainless steel pots upside down, put the clams in, put some water in to submerge the clams, and then turn the pots upside down and shake them up and down a few times, and they will spit out the sand after about ten minutes. If you just bought one, you can put it in strong salt water and let him spit out the sand on his own, which usually takes 2 to 3 hours! Take care to keep it in a cool corner!

Notes on cooking yellow clams

1. Make sure you cook them in a pot of cold water.

2. Remove them immediately after opening. Don't wait for it to boil or the yellow clam's will be hard to bite into and lose its soft texture.

3. Do not take hot soup with you when you remove it from the pot, otherwise the meat of the yellow clam will become hard. The most important thing in cooking yellow clams is the heat.

4. Make sure to cook the clams in their original juices to preserve the original flavor.