Fish Maw Stewed Sea Cucumber

Name: Fish Maw Stewed Sea Cucumber
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 4 Sea cucumber; 100g Pork (lean); 4g salt; 3 small bowls Shimizu; 30g pepper

by Easy to cook

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Hard

Time

1h 30m

Serving

3

Flower maw is a dried product of various fish swim bladders. It is famous for its rich gum and its alias is flower maw. Glue, also known as fish maw, is the fish maw taken from the belly of the fish, cut and dried, and it is rich in protein and gelatin. Dietary therapy nourishes the yin, nourishes the face, strengthens the kidney and nourishes the essence, which can quickly relieve fatigue and be effective in surgical operations. The patient's wound is helpful for healing.
Sea cucumber is a kind of precious marine animal, named after its tonic effect similar to ginseng. Its meat is soft and tender, rich in nutrition, and it is a typical high-protein and low-fat food. Men and women are the first choice for beauty and nourishing ingredients. Because you eat more, you are not afraid of gaining weight~

Ingredients

4 Sea Cucumber
100g Pork (lean)
4g Salt
3 small bowls Shimizu
30g Pepper

Fish Maw Stewed Sea Cucumber

1. Sea cucumber soaking steps: Use a basin to fill pure water, put the sea cucumber, wrap it in plastic wrap, and soak it in the refrigerator to keep it fresh. Change the water every 8-12 hours.

2. This is the sea cucumber that has been soaked for 3 days, it's chubby

3. Handling sea cucumbers: Use scissors to cut a straight line on the sea cucumber abdomen, remove the intestines, sand mouth, and rinse well

4. Don’t remove the internal tendons in the sea cucumber, cut it horizontally a few times, it won’t shrink into a ball when cooking

5. Soak the maw in warm water half an hour in advance to soften

6. Handle all the ingredients: wash the lean meat and cut into pieces

7. Cut the flower maw, lean meat, and sea cucumber into the stewing pot

8. Add 3 small bowls of water to leave a thumb-thick gap in the stewing pot, because the sea cucumber will expand after being stewed.

9. Cover the lid and place the stew pot on the stand

10. Stew over high heat for 30 minutes, then turn to medium heat and simmer for about 60 minutes

11. After the soup is simmered, add salt and stir well

12. Scoop up and sprinkle some chopped green onion to eat

Tips:
The lean local pig meat is stewed directly without blanching water, and the taste is sweet and delicious. If using chicken or ordinary pork, blanch it in water and put it in a saucepan to remove fishy and greasy. Soak the fish maw in warm water in advance to soften it, cut into pieces and put it in the stewing pot.
Before noon, you can add some ginger slices and stew together, but it is not suitable to eat ginger at night. There was an old saying in the past: "Within a year, you will not eat ginger in autumn; within a day, you will not eat ginger at night. The so-called "don't eat ginger at night" is mainly because the pungent and warm divergence of ginger will affect people's normal nighttime Rest, and eating pungent ginger at night is also prone to internal heat, and symptoms of "getting up" will appear over time.