What are the methods of steaming soft-shelled turtle?

Steaming soft-shelled turtle is the most common way to eat it, but if you want to truly enjoy its delicious flavor, you still need to follow certain steps and techniques. It is also very important to remove the fishy smell from the soft-shelled turtle. When killing the soft-shelled turtle, you must extract the gallbladder and bile from its internal organs.

Method 1:

1. After slaughtering the turtle, blanch it in boiling water until the outer layer changes color and wrinkles, then remove it, scrape off the black substance and old skin on the turtle with a knife, remove the claws and tail, remove the internal organs and yellow croaker, wash and chop into small pieces;

2. Wash the chicken and chop it into minced meat; wash the mushrooms and tear them into large pieces; cut the winter bamboo shoots and ham into slices; wash the green onions and ginger and cut them into sections and slices respectively;

3. Take a soup bowl, add turtle meat, scallion segments, ginger slices, and broth, steam in a steamer for 50 minutes and take out;

4. Add ham, bamboo shoots, mushroom cubes, rapeseed, onion, ginger, MSG, cooking wine, salt, pepper to a soup bowl, seal with wax paper, steam in a steamer for 15 minutes, remove from the steamer, open the wax paper and pick out the onion and ginger;

5. Finally, pour the minced chicken into the turtle soup and bring to a boil.

Method 2:

Accessories: ham, dried mushrooms, pork, garlic, onion, ginger, white pepper, pepper, chicken fat, sesame oil;

practice:

1. Clean the turtle, scald it with boiling water, remove the shell, chop it into 2.5 cm square pieces, wash it, drain the water, marinate it with cooking wine and salt for 10 minutes, filter out the salt water, take a steamer, put the cover shell in first, then the turtle;

2. Cut the cooked ham into 2.5 cm long and 1.6 cm wide slices, wash the mushrooms, remove the stems and cut into small slices, peel the garlic, cut the fat into 3 strips, crush the white pepper, tie the green onions into knots, add ginger and salt, put them into the steamer, add cooking wine and sesame oil;

3. Steam the ingredients in the steamer until they are soft, take out the onion, ginger and fat, pour the turtle into a bowl, use chopsticks to arrange the head, tail and four legs, cover the turtle shell, leaving a small part of the head, tail and legs exposed in the soup, and drizzle with chicken oil.

3. Production Tips

[Tips] This dish has tender meat and smooth mushrooms, and has a fresh and fragrant taste. The turtle must be washed clean to avoid fishy smell. A little peppercorns will make it taste better.

[Tips on how to remove the fishy smell from turtles] When killing a turtle, pick out the gallbladder from its internal organs and take out the bile. After the turtle is clean, add some water to the bile and apply it all over the body of the turtle. Leave it for a while and then rinse it with clean water. The turtle treated in this way will not have any fishy smell when cooked again.