Chinese Food
Boiled conch in brine
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It's a hard physical work to fry and cook in the kitchen because of the hot weather. I went to my mother-in-law's house after Dragon Boat Festival today. I cook lunch. I don't want to cook in a smoky way. I bought conch at the seafood market near my home. I didn't use oil. I didn't need to fry it. I boiled it in salt water. It was delicious with garlic sauce. Conch is quite common here. It was unloaded from the fishing boat that day. It's very fresh. Conch belongs to the gastropod of mollusks. Shellfish are mainly divided into five outlines. There are more than 70000 kinds in the world. The marine species can be called conch. The edge of conch shell is a little square. It is big and hard. The shell is about 10 cm high. The spiral layer is of grade 6. What I bought today is a big conch. The meat is thick. It's very chewy. There are many ways to eat conch. The simplest way is to boil it in salt water. It's also the freshest way to eat it. After cooking it, the conch meat is picked out to make soup. It's fried with chili, leek, or dumplings. Baozi is very delicious, especially an old dish in Dalian
Cooking ingredients
Cooking Steps
Step1:Prepare the ingredients. Soak the conch after buying it home. Add a small amount of salt to the water. Soak the conch for 1530 minutes. Then brush the shell and suction cup with a small brush. This is to remove some microorganisms.
Step2:Add two bowls of clear water to the pot. Put the conch in cold water. Add about 3 grams of salt.
Step3:Cover the pot and cook for about 15 minutes. The conch must be cooked for a while longer. If the cooking time is short, the conch meat is not easy to pick out. Even if it is half cooked, it will cause diarrhea. Cook for about 15 minutes.
Step4:When cooking conch, mash the garlic, mix with a small amount of soy sauce, and stir to make garlic sauce. Eating conch can't be without garlic sauce and horseradish. It's an important seasoning for flavor improvement
Step5:When you boil the conch, you will see some white slime on the suction cup head. This is the conch's slime. It doesn't hinder eating. Just wash it with the original slurry water.
Step6:Use chopsticks to clip the conch into the plate. Eat it while it's hot. Conch is not delicious when it is cold.
Step7:How to take out the conch? Here I'll show you. It's very simple. It's just to insert the head of the conch with chopsticks and rotate it outward. The light conch meat will come out completely.
Step8:Look. The whole conch meat is coming out. Don't eat it in a hurry at this time, because there is a substance secreted by brain nerves in the head of conch. It can only be eaten after being removed. If you eat it carelessly, it will cause slight food poisoning.
Step9:The neurosecretory substance of the brain of the conch is located in the head. Gently open the meat of the head. You can see the yellow substance with the size of soybean grain. Pick it out with chopsticks and remove it. And the green tendon beside it will be removed together. The spiral gland of the tail will not be eaten.
Step10:Finally, dip the conch meat in garlic sauce. Although there is a large conch, the last part is very few. But the unique delicious taste is hard to resist by many people.
Step11:It's tender and delicious. It's chewy when you eat it, q-bombs. It's really a gift from the sea.
Cooking tips:Tips-1. Conch should not be eaten with beef, mutton, broad bean, pork, clam, noodles, corn, winter melon, cantaloupe, agaric and sugar. Therefore, this kind of food should be avoided within 2 hours before and after eating conch. 2. Conch cold. Less or no food for gastrointestinal asthenic sweat. 3. The sauce can also be mixed with soy sauce and horseradish, or ginger and vinegar. It's also delicious. There are skills in making delicious dishes.
