How to cook mantis shrimp

Many people don’t know much about mantis shrimp. It is a common aquatic product with high nutritional value. It contains high-quality protein, has a certain conditioning effect on the body, and helps the body absorb nutrients. There are many ways to cook mantis shrimp. It can be made into saltwater mantis shrimp or mantis shrimp noodles, which are both good methods. It can also be made into soup, such as shrimp, mushroom and mustard soup, etc., which tastes very delicious.

Brine Mantis Shrimp

Ingredients: 500g mantis shrimp, 10g salt, 2 star anise, 1 handful of peppercorns, 2 shallots, 5 cloves of garlic, 2 lemon slices, 3 slices of ginger, 2-3 dried chilies, 1000ML water. Method: 1. First boil the above ingredients into a pot of fragrant salt water. 2. Add the mantis shrimp and cook until it changes color, then remove from the heat. Tips: You can choose your favorite flavor for the seasoning in the brine. The cooking time should not be too long. After boiling, you can turn off the heat and simmer it with the residual heat. This will make it more tender.

Mantis shrimp and mustard greens soup

Ingredients: half a pound of mantis shrimp, 1 mustard green, some abalone mantis crickets, fresh shiitake mushrooms, seafood mushrooms and enoki mushrooms, a little salt. Method: 1. Rinse the fresh mantis shrimp with clean water and press on the back of the shrimp with chopsticks, otherwise the live shrimp will jump around. 2. Wash all kinds of mushrooms, cut into sections and set aside. 3. Wash the mustard greens, cut the rhizomes and leaves separately, put the rhizomes and mushrooms into a pot, add a cup of water, and bring to a boil. 4. When the soup boils and the mushrooms become soft, add the shrimp mushrooms and continue to boil. 5. Cut the mustard leaves into thin strips. 6. Wait for the mantis shrimp soup to boil again, add mustard leaves and sprinkle some salt.

Ingredients: 3 mantis shrimp fillets weighing more than 7 taels, 2 cloves of garlic, a piece of ginger, a few stalks of celery, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, appropriate amount of sugar, appropriate amount of olive oil. Method: 1. Use a knife to cut the mantis shrimp in half, revealing the transparent and attractive shrimp meat, and there is still a lot of roe on the head. 2. Chop the garlic, ginger and celery and scatter them on the broken shrimp meat. 3. Steam for 12 minutes without adding any seasoning. 4. While steaming the mantis shrimp chops, boil water for cooking the noodles. When the noodles are cooked, add the spring vegetables into the pot and cook them together. Drain the noodles and vegetables, and add olive oil. 5. Add soy sauce, sugar, and a mantis shrimp steak. A bowl of mantis shrimp steak noodles is ready.