Spicy roasted sea anemone---sunflowers in the sea are also delicious
Overview
The vastness of the ocean is nothing short of amazing. Sea anemone can be regarded as a magical and fascinating marine creature. Its elegant name inevitably reminds people of sunflowers in the sun. In fact, their appearance is more like a newly blooming rose. There is a circle of tentacles spreading out in all directions at the top, just like the petals of a rose. No wonder people call it an undersea rose. When people reach out to touch them, they will quickly spit out a stream of water, retract their petals, and shrink into a ball. It is not easy to pick these flowers. These colorful flowers and their petals look like stretched chrysanthemums, so they are also called undersea chrysanthemums. From the outside, sea anemone is indeed gorgeous, but in fact it is not as cute as it looks. It has a huge mouth and a very good appetite, and can swallow shrimps and small fish in one bite. The body of the sea anemone is as soft as a jellyfish, but there is a venom sac at the tip of each tentacle. There are sharp threads in the venom sac. Once it encounters prey, one of the threads will pierce the skin forward, and the venom will flow out, so that the opponent will be quickly conquered. For this reason, other sea creatures avoid it. Despite this, the sea anemone has a very good friend, a hermit crab. Hermit crabs and sea anemones are close friends who coexist with each other. When the anemone releases its petals - tentacles - to catch small animals, it not only protects the hermit crab, but also provides it with food. Hermit crabs can travel to the bottom of the sea with sea anemones. In this way, the two friends do not want to be separated, and even when the hermit crab moves, it will move its friend to another shell. Sea anemones are actually from the same family as jellyfish, jellyfish, and coral polyps, and are both coelenterates. As mentioned above, sea anemone and hermit crab depend on each other. Not only that, sea anemone also makes friends with a colorful clown fish in the ocean. Sea anemones are not harmful to this clownfish. This clownfish often attracts other shrimps and small fish to come here, and the anemone catches them and has breakfast with the clownfish. In addition, there is a parasitic shrimp that also interacts with sea anemones. The parasitic shrimp combs the tentacles of the sea anemone to keep it clean, and the reward is the waste combed out, which serves as food for the parasitic shrimp. Therefore, this parasitic shrimp with a transparent, glass-like body is called sunflower shrimp. Believe it or not. Don't look at these clumsy sea anemones, they can actually climb onto the claws of a giant crab and make a home. Let the crab take it to travel to the sea world, and the more honest ones will settle on the crab's back. So sometimes when fishermen catch sea crabs, they can also catch sea anemones. Sea anemones come in a variety of colors, green, red, white, orange, spotted or striped or multi-colored. Where do these colors come from? One is the pigment in its own tissue, and the other is from the symbiotic algae that live with it. Symbiodinium not only adds color to the anemone, but also provides nutrients to the anemone. Several species of sea anemones living in tropical coral reefs extend their colored parts during the day to allow Symbiodinium algae to fully carry out photosynthesis, and at night they extend their tentacles to capture prey. Sea anemones range from 1 mm in size to over 1 meter in size. Generally speaking, sea anemones living in tropical seas are brightly colored and large in size, while in cold oceans, the colors appear drab and the individuals are smaller. My hometown, Rongcheng District, Weihai, is rich in sea anemones. The nutritional value of sea anemones is very high, but many people dare not eat them. Even some of our local people dare not touch this kind of object. When sea anemones are fished out, their bodies will secrete a kind of mucus, which makes people look a little disgusting. However, the taste of sea anemones is very delicious. The most famous local dishes using sea anemones as ingredients are sea anemone hot and sour soup, dry pot sea anemone, braised sea anemone, etc. According to nutrition experts, sea anemone is rich in nutrients. It is delicious and nourishing when simmered in soup. If ginseng and American ginseng are added, the effect will be better. Recent research shows that sea anemones can be used as medicine and are commonly used by coastal fishermen to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, developing sea anemone resources to benefit mankind is also an aspect that people pay attention to. The most troublesome thing about eating sea anemones in our local area is how to handle them. Handling sea anemones requires a lot of skills. If not handled properly, the cooking smell will be very fishy and make people unable to eat. Our method at the beach is to put the salvaged sea anemone into a mesh bag and beat it with a wooden stick on the seaside stone boron to knock out all the mucus on the sea anemone's skin and body. While beating, rinse it with sea water. Repeat this action until the sea anemone's mucus is completely knocked out and the sea anemone meat becomes very brittle and hard. Sea anemone tastes very delicious and bites as crispy as eating radish, very chewy, and the feeling is very wonderful. When making it at home, you must rub it vigorously with salt and white vinegar many times until the mucus is removed. At the same time, sea anemone also has sedative, cough-relieving, antihypertensive, anticoagulant, antibacterial and other effects, and even has the effect of promoting lactation, so people at the seaside call it stone milk.
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Ingredients
Steps
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Ingredients: 1000 grams of sea anemone Secondary ingredients: green and red peppers, onions, ginger, garlic Seasonings: garlic chili sauce, light soy sauce, salt, sugar, cooking wine
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First rinse the sea anemone under running water, then add salt and white vinegar and rub it vigorously with your hands
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Blanch the picked sea anemone in hot water, take it out and put it in cold water to cool down
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Cut green and red peppers, onions, ginger and garlic with a knife and set aside
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Make oil in a pot and stir-fry the seasonings. After the seasonings are fragrant, add the garlic chili sauce and stir-fry
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After the chili sauce produces red oil, put the blanched sea anemone into the pan and stir-fry, then add light soy sauce, salt, sugar, cooking wine
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After frying for a while, add a little water, simmer for 2 minutes, and serve after the soup thickens
