How to cook delicious green silkworms

Green silkworm is a kind of green silkworm. Many people must be surprised that silkworms can be eaten besides toast. In fact, this is not surprising. Maybe in some areas there is no habit of eating silkworms, but silkworms can indeed be eaten. We all know that insects themselves have high nutritional value, especially silkworm pupae. In some places, silkworm pupae can also appear in barbecue stalls. Green silkworms can become a delicacy on the table. So how to make green silkworms delicious?

Mulberry silkworms and tussah silkworms both sound like "silkworms" and both spin silk and make cocoons. They are also important raw materials for home textiles. However, strictly speaking from a biological point of view, they are not organisms of the same family. They eat different food, are raised in different ways, have different quality characteristics of their cocoons and silk, and their prices are very different.

Detailed steps for deep-fried silkworms

Step 1

Wash the silkworms several times with water.

Boil salt water in a pot and cook the silkworms.

Step 2

Take out and drain the water.

Fry in oil until the skin is crispy.

Silkworm pupae have extremely high nutritional value and are rich in protein (fresh silkworm pupae contain 51% crude protein), fatty acids (29% crude fat), and vitamins (including vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin D and ergosterol, etc.). The protein content of silkworm pupae is over 50%, which is much higher than that of general food, and the protein contains a full range of essential amino acids. Silkworm pupa protein is composed of 18 kinds of amino acids, among which the content of 8 essential amino acids for the human body is very high. The content of these eight essential amino acids for the human body in silkworm pupae is about twice that of pork, four times that of eggs, and ten times that of milk. It is nutritionally balanced and in appropriate proportions, and is a high-quality insect protein.

A good product that can be used as both medicine and food.

There is a long tradition in our country of eating silkworms for nutritional purposes. For example, a few days before a silkworm spins silk and makes a cocoon, its body is already crystal white, and it can be used as a tonic food for the sick.

In the ancient medical book "Compendium of Materia Medica", a large number of medicinal effects of silkworms are listed. For example: frying silkworms and grinding them into powder and taking them has the effect of relieving fever and treating infantile convulsions; burning silkworms and taking them has the effect of treating rheumatism; dissolving silkworm feces in water and applying them externally has the effect of treating mastitis and wounds; frying silkworm feces until they turn yellow and grinding them into powder, dissolving them in honey and drinking them has the effect of treating asthma and bronchitis.

In recent years, my country, Japan and other countries have invested huge amounts of money to conduct comprehensive research on silkworm body powder, which not only proves the effect of silkworm body powder in regulating blood sugar, but also discovers its many functions such as improving immunity, anti-tumor, anti-fatigue, and beauty-enhancing. And its composition mechanism, dosage, safety, etc. were studied in detail.