My best friend and I want to nourish ourselves recently. What foods should we eat to nourish ourselves?

Sea cucumber is rich in eighteen kinds of amino acids, taurine and various minerals. It is a high-protein, low-fat and low-cholesterol food. At the same time, it also has the effects of improving memory, enhancing immunity, strengthening bones, improving sleep, and beautifying the skin. It is as famous as ginseng, bird's nest, shark's fin and other tonics, and is called "the first of a hundred tonics".

There are also many varieties of sea cucumbers, such as light-dried sea cucumbers, salt-dried sea cucumbers, freeze-dried sea cucumbers, ready-to-eat sea cucumbers, etc. Most people will buy dried sea cucumbers, which involves the problem of soaking. If you can’t Master the correct soaking techniques. Firstly, sea cucumbers are not long, which is a waste of ingredients. Secondly, the nutrients cannot be fully released, and it will be useless no matter how much you eat! I personally think that soaking dried sea cucumbers is not difficult, as long as you have patience. Let’s take a look at how to turn dried sea cucumbers into “ginseng fat man”!

Sea cucumber soaking guide

Ingredients required: appropriate amount of dried sea cucumber, appropriate amount of purified water, oil-free and salt-free container

Steps:

1. First prepare a clean container without oil and salt, put in the dried sea cucumber and wash it twice with pure water. Purified water should be used throughout the process of soaking sea cucumbers, just the kind of barreled ones you can buy in supermarkets.

2. Pour purified water into the cleaned sea cucumbers. The amount of water should be more than enough to cover the sea cucumbers. Let it soak for 48 hours. Remember to change the purified water in the middle. It is winter now, so I just put it in. On the balcony, where the temperature is lower, if it is summer, you can put it in the refrigerator.

3. After soaking, the sea cucumber has become larger and softer to the touch. Pour out the soaking water and clean the sea cucumber with pure water.

4. Use scissors to cut open the abdomen of the sea cucumber, cut both ends to the head, and remove the internal organs and impurities. You don’t need to remove the inner tendons of the abdominal wall, just cut them. If you don’t want to affect the sea cucumber, just cut a few more sections. I cut three sections.

5. Wash the processed sea cucumbers with purified water, pour in the purified water that has submerged the sea cucumbers, and then start cooking the sea cucumbers.

6. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook for 30-40 minutes, until the sea cucumber has no hard core. Sea cucumbers vary in size and cooking time is different. You can fish it out first.

7. Place the cooked sea cucumber directly in the pot to cool naturally, then soak it in the water used to cook the sea cucumber for 6-8 hours. In summer, it still needs to be placed in the refrigerator.

8. Now you can see that the sea cucumber has obviously become larger. Pour out the water in the pot where the sea cucumber was cooked and add purified water again. This time it will be placed in the refrigerator to soak at low temperature.

9. Take it out after soaking for 24 hours. If you think it is not big enough, continue to change the purified water, and then put it in the refrigerator to soak for 24 hours.

10. It’s basically enough to reach the level shown in the picture. Pack the soaked sea cucumbers into bags, put them in the freezer of the refrigerator, and take them as you go.

11.?Here comes Fatty Ginseng~ It seems like there are a lot of steps, but in fact it is very simple. It is nothing more than cleaning, changing water, soaking, etc. Anyone can do it!

Tips:

The container in which sea cucumbers are soaked must be oil-free and salt-free. A glass container like mine is good. Also, you must use purified water. Even sea cucumbers can afford it, so don’t be reluctant to buy purified water