Local food (shellfish)

Chen Ji

river snail

Snails grow in paddy fields, ponds and rivers. Fingers are the size and shape of snails, also called snails. Snail meat is tender, crisp and nutritious, and it is known as the "pearl in the plate" of farmers.

Whenever these two crops return to green fields, farmers can "steal" snails to eat. It can be described as a godsend food without spending money.

Snail can be steamed and fried, made into soup with meat or eaten as a side dish. Jiaozi is as interesting as snail meat.

The recovered snails are kept in a basin for a day or two, washed several times, and the dirty things in the snail's stomach and shell are removed. Clip your tail and you can cook.

Steamed snail: mix oil and salt, add some perilla leaves, onions, garlic and peppers, steam when cooking, and you can taste the original snail.

Stir-fried snail: stir-fry a little (about 5 minutes), add perilla leaves, peppers, onions, garlic and sauce, and stir-fry for another 5 minutes. Just the right stir-fried snails are easy to smell, spicy and delicious.

Perilla leaves are almost inseparable from boiled snails (including other shellfish), which are fragrant and muddy. This is a good experience that the working people have summed up for a long time.

Snails have high medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that snails are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and improving eyesight, diuresis and stranguria. Indications: red eyes, pain, incontinence, hemorrhoids, jaundice, convulsion and other symptoms.

Gong Yanxian's "Medicine Songs Containing 400 Flavors" in Ming Dynasty said: "Snail is cold, which is beneficial to defecation, digestion and heat removal, and sobering up." Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica also said: "Relieve damp-heat and treat jaundice". According to modern medical research, snails can treat bacillary dysentery, otitis media, rectocele, furuncle, women's uterine prolapse, body odor and so on. It is a good medicine for blindly treating many diseases. If the damp-heat jaundice is treated and the gastrointestinal function is not recovered, the snail can be cooked and eaten in soup. After the recovery of gastrointestinal function, both soup and meat can be eaten, and the curative effect is obvious. To treat otitis media and hemorrhoids, snails can be washed, and a little borneol can be added into the shell to make juice (called Bingluosan), which can also be applied to ears or hemorrhoids. Snail paste can also be used to treat a variety of diseases, such as urinary tract obstruction, abdominal distension, etc., which can be used as "two snails, half a spoonful of salt, and one inch and three points of raw navel" ("Medical Money").

Stone snail

Stone snails grow in ponds and rivers and can be touched all year round. Smaller than a snail, it adheres to hard objects such as stones in the water. In addition, the snail shell is hard, so it is called snail.

Stone snails are similar in cooking and eating to river snails. Because of its large collection, barreled snails can often be found in ponds or rivers, which is favored by many restaurants in the market.

In the evening, about three or two friends lined up in the street, frying a few plates of stone snails, opening a few mouthfuls of beer, talking about heaven and earth, and sometimes hearing the sound of "croaking" like "kissing".

Huangshaxian

Unlike snails, yellow sand clams (commonly known as meretrix meretrix) can be found in any river and pond. There are long clams in the river sand, which requires high water quality. It is not everywhere in river sand, but once it is found, it is likely to be a lot and has a group nature.

The returned clams should also be kept in water for a day or two. After the oil pan is washed and boiled, you can see that all the clams have opened their mouths, revealing fresh, white and smooth clams, and then they come down with a gentle touch. The soup cooked by clams is as white as milk and tastes fresh. Put a few parsley and shallots in it, which is simple, fresh and fascinating.

Fairy soup is said to have the effect of yin beauty, protecting liver and benefiting qi.

clam

Mytilus is slightly triangular, generally the size of a mussel's palm, which is more difficult to find than river snails, stone snails and yellow sand clams. Cangjiang River and its tributaries can only be touched occasionally.

Mussels should be put in water for a day or two after being touched back. After washing and cooking, take out the mussels and season them.

Mytilus is crisp and tender, white and transparent, contains a variety of nutrients, and has high medicinal value.

Life Taste Diet Spectrum: "Mussels are sweet, salty and cold. Clearing heat and nourishing yin, nourishing liver and cooling blood, calming the wind and relieving alcohol, improving eyesight and calming the nerves. " Herbal Rejuvenation: "Treat liver fire, renal failure, rash and acne toxin, cool and quench thirst." Clam meat is cold, spleen and stomach deficiency and loose stool diarrhea are not suitable for eating.

"Herbal Yi Yan": "Eat more and get cold air." "Daily Diet Spectrum with Interest": "Eating too much cold and cold, unclear exogenous factors, and spleen deficiency are all taboos."

According to the analysis, every100g of mussel meat contains 6.8g of protein, 0.6g of fat, 0.8g of carbohydrate, 202g of vitamin A, 0.0/0.0/0/mg of vitamin B, 0.0/3 mg of vitamin B2, and 0/3 mg of nicotinic acid1. No wonder the old clam can be pregnant with pearls.