How to cook braised prawns?

Shrimp is a very popular seafood. It is rich in many kinds of nutrients, which can enhance people's immunity. Eating shrimp can also help postpartum women to promote lactation. Shrimp can prevent arteriosclerosis and play a role in health care. There are many ways to cook shrimp. For example, braised Macrobrachium rosenbergii tastes good. Many people like to eat it, but many people still don’t know how to cook it. What is the recipe for braised Macrobrachium rosenbergii? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Prepare the ingredients

Shrimp, ginger, cooking wine, and steamed fish soy sauce.

2. Steps for stewing prawns

1. Wash the prawns and dry them with kitchen paper.

2. Put two to three times more oil than usual in the pan, heat it up, add the shrimps and fry them over medium heat for a while, then remove them from the pan and use oil-absorbing paper to absorb the oil.

3. In another pot, add the fried shrimps, and add appropriate amount of water, cooking wine, steamed fish soy sauce and salt. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook until the shrimps are well-seasoned.

3. Benefits of Shrimp

1. Enhance human immunity

Shrimp has extremely high nutritional value. It can enhance human immunity and sexual function, nourish the kidney and strengthen yang, resist premature aging, and can treat symptoms such as kidney deficiency, impotence, fear of cold, fatigue, and pain in the waist and knees.

2. Promote lactation

If a woman has little or no milk after giving birth, grind 500 grams of fresh shrimp meat and drink it with hot rice wine 3 times a day for several days to stimulate lactation.

3. Relieve neurasthenia

Shrimp skin has a sedative effect and is often used to treat neurasthenia and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Shrimp is a delicious food that can provide nutrition for the brain. Shrimp contains three important fatty acids, which can help people stay focused for a long time.

4. Prevent arteriosclerosis

Shrimp is rich in magnesium, which plays an important regulatory role in heart activity and can protect the cardiovascular system well. It can reduce the cholesterol content in the blood, prevent arteriosclerosis, and at the same time dilate the coronary arteries, which is beneficial for preventing hypertension and myocardial infarction.

5. Eliminate jet lag

The astaxanthin in shrimp helps to eliminate the "jet lag" caused by jet lag.

4. Shrimps are so good, so how to store them?

1. If you are storing fresh shrimps, it is recommended to blanch them in boiling water or oil first, and then store them in the refrigerator. This way, even if they are stored for a longer time, the original color, taste and quality of the shrimps will be retained. Moreover, after processing, the free ecology, protein and color-developing substances in the shrimps can be retained in the cells, becoming solid amino acid molecules that are not easy to change taste. This can fix the red color and last for a long time.

2. You can also fill the container containing the shrimps with water and freeze it in the refrigerator. After thawing, you can put it directly into the pot. This method also has a good preservation effect.

5. Nutritional value of shrimp

1. Shrimp contains 20% protein, which is one of the foods with high protein content, several times or even dozens of times that of fish, eggs and milk.

2. Shrimp is high in cholesterol

3. It is also rich in taurine which can lower serum cholesterol in the human body

4. Shrimp is rich in trace elements such as potassium, iodine, magnesium, phosphorus and vitamin A.

6. It should be noted that there are some taboos in eating shrimps: what cannot be eaten with shrimps.

1. Juice

Fruit juice (especially orange juice, pear juice, etc.) contains a lot of vitamin C, which can easily lead to vitamin C overdose. (A special reminder to friends who eat buffets: if you eat shrimp, don’t drink juice)

2. Soybeans

Soybeans are rich in protein and aid digestion, but eating them together with shrimps can cause symptoms such as indigestion.

3. Red dates

Red dates are rich in vitamins. Eating red dates and shrimps together will cause the vitamins in the red dates to reduce arsenic pentoxide in the shrimps or shrimp skins into arsenic trioxide (arsenic), causing poisoning.

4. Pumpkin

Pumpkin is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of relieving gas and asthma, clearing away heat and removing phlegm. However, shrimp is warm in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and has the effects of nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang, strengthening the stomach and replenishing qi, removing phlegm and fighting cancer. If the nature, taste and effects of the two are opposite, eating them together will cause dysentery (a disease that is more serious than diarrhea), which will have a certain harmful effect on physical health.