What soup is good with sea cucumber?

Sea cucumber is a kind of seafood. It not only tastes delicious, but also has high nutritional value. Many people use sea cucumbers to maintain their health. Eating sea cucumbers regularly can strengthen the body and play a role in health care for the kidneys. Male friends can eat sea cucumbers frequently to maintain their kidneys. There are many ways to cook sea cucumbers. For example, the most common one is to make soup with sea cucumbers, which is more nutritious. Many people still don’t know what food can be used to make soup with sea cucumbers. Let’s take a look.

1. Sea cucumber beef soup

Ingredients: appropriate amount of sea cucumber, 250 grams of beef, a little salt.

Preparation: Soak and wash the sea cucumber; slice the beef, then put them into the pot and stew until the beef is cooked.

Usage: Take with warm water.

Analysis: Sea cucumber can nourish the kidney and replenish essence, nourish blood and moisten dryness. It is suitable for symptoms such as loss of essence and blood, weak constitution, frequent urination due to kidney deficiency, dry intestine and constipation; beef is sweet and warm in nature, and can replenish qi, nourish the spleen and stomach, and strengthen muscles and bones. Therefore, stewing the two ingredients together into a soup and drinking it can remedy all deficiency symptoms.

2. Steamed Sea Cucumber with Egg Custard

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1 soaked sea cucumber. Seasoning: soy sauce, sesame oil, salt,

Preparation: Prepare the ingredients and dice the soaked sea cucumber. Crack the eggs into a bowl and use chopsticks or a whisk to beat them into egg liquid; add about 1.5 times the amount of warm water to the egg liquid, add appropriate amount of salt, and then stir evenly; use a mesh sieve to filter the mixed egg liquid to filter out the bubbles produced by stirring; cover the mouth of the bowl with plastic wrap, put it in a steamer with boiling water and steam it until the egg liquid solidifies, about 8 minutes. After opening the lid, put the diced sea cucumber into a bowl and continue steaming for another 3 minutes. After serving, add soy sauce and sesame oil.

3. Sea cucumber tofu

Preparation: Chop the Chinese spinach into fine pieces, mix with egg white and starch to make a paste; cut the sea cucumber into small pieces the size of rice grains, blanch them in water, and mix them in the egg white paste. Then stir-fry the scallion and ginger, and stir-fry with the tender tofu before serving. This dish is especially suitable for the elderly.

Sea cucumber and chicken soup

Ingredients: 300 grams of soaked sea cucumber, 250 grams of chicken breast strips, appropriate amounts of clean mushroom slices, clean jujubes, clean black fungus, and ginger slices.

Preparation: Pour enough broth into a pot, add sea cucumber shreds, black fungus, mushroom slices, jujube, and ginger slices, boil over high heat, add chicken breast strips and cook until done, then season with salt, chicken essence, and cooking wine.

Nutrition: Studies have shown that sea cucumber extract and mucopolysaccharides isolated from some sea cucumbers can enhance kidney function and are very suitable for winter consumption.

4. Sea cucumber and chicken soup

Ingredients: 300 grams of soaked sea cucumber shreds, 250 grams of chicken breast strips, appropriate amounts of clean mushroom slices, clean jujubes, clean black fungus, and ginger slices.

Preparation: Pour enough broth into a pot, add sea cucumber shreds, black fungus, mushroom slices, jujube, and ginger slices, boil over high heat, add chicken breast strips and cook until done, then season with salt, chicken essence, and cooking wine.

Nutrition: Studies have shown that sea cucumber extract and mucopolysaccharides isolated from some sea cucumbers can enhance kidney function and are very suitable for winter consumption.

5. How to choose sea cucumbers?

1. The body shape is complete and correct. This is very important as it indicates the freshness and quality of the sea cucumber. Incomplete sea cucumbers are often what's left after vendors remove the rotten parts. In addition, a distorted and shriveled body shape indicates that the sea cucumber has been fished for a long time. Such sea cucumbers are prone to disease and can be easily contaminated by microorganisms and deteriorate.

2. Dry enough, that is, the moisture content is less than 15%. Since sea cucumbers are expensive, the lower the moisture content, the more affordable they are. However, in order to make high profits, some merchants often add too much water to sea cucumbers. This not only makes consumers suffer a loss in price, but also excessive moisture content is conducive to the growth and reproduction of microorganisms, which is not conducive to the preservation and quality of sea cucumbers.

3. Light, firm and shiny. Whether the sea cucumber is firm and shiny indicates how nutritious it is. Sea cucumbers that live in waters with abundant food grow and mature, have high nutrient content, and are naturally more valuable. Wild sea cucumbers have a chewy texture, no astringency, and their cuts are delicate, neat, and even. However, because it is wild, the sea area is small, and the production is very limited, only a few directly-operated brands in China can buy it.