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How to stir-fry sea cucumber? Detailed steps introduced!
Sea cucumber is a very precious ingredient and also a very precious medicine. Sea cucumber not only tastes very good but also has many health benefits for the human body. Science has proven that eating sea cucumber can enhance memory, and men can treat impotence by eating sea cucumber. Sea cucumber can also prevent and treat atherosclerosis, and even can fight tumors. So how should sea cucumber be stir-fried for eating?
The steps for stir-frying sea cucumber are as follows:
Materials
Soak 5 sea cucumbers, salt, vegetable oil, scallions, ginger, garlic, Lao Gan Ma, DouDou brand Douban sauce, pickled chili, five-spice powder, braising soy sauce, oyster sauce, diluted cornstarch slurry
1. Clean the soaked sea cucumber
2. Clean the internal organs, wash, and cut into segments
3. Put it in boiling water to blanch
4. Remove and set aside
5. Add two spoons of Douban sauce, one spoon of Lao Gan Ma, two spoons of chopped chili, and one spoon of oyster sauce to half a bowl of high-quality soup and stir well
6. Add a moderate amount of salt, five-spice powder, and braising soy sauce to make the sauce and set it aside
7. Cut scallions, ginger, and garlic into small pieces and set aside
8. Pour a little vegetable oil into the pot, heat to 5 degrees, and add scallion, ginger, and garlic to stir-fry until fragrant
9. Add the sauce and stir-fry until done
10. Then, after blanching the sea cucumber, put it in the pot and stir-fry to flavor. Add a little diluted cornstarch slurry and cook over high heat to thicken the sauce and then remove from heat.
Nutritional value of sea cucumber
1. Sea cucumbers contain a relatively high amount of protein, less fat, and cholesterol.
2. Sea cucumbers are known as the ‘master of arginine’, containing 8 essential amino acids that the human body cannot synthesize itself, among which arginine and lysine are the most abundant.
3. It contains special active nutrients such as sea cucumber acidic mucopolysaccharides, sea cucumber saponins (sea cucumber saponin, sea cucumber toxin), sea cucumber lipids, sea cucumber gelatin protein, taurine, and so on.
4. Other active ingredients in sea cucumbers include sea cucumber saponins (sea cucumber saponin, sea cucumber toxin), and acidic mucopolysaccharides composed of aminohexose, hexose aldonic acid, and fucose, among others. They also contain 18 amino acids without cholesterol.
5. Sea cucumbers are rich in trace elements, especially calcium, vanadium, sodium, selenium, and magnesium. The trace element vanadium in sea cucumbers is the highest among various foods, which can participate in the transport of iron in the blood and enhance hematopoietic function.
