③ Compendium of Materia Medica: "Carassius auratus has many functions, such as nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, clearing away heat and removing blood stasis, strengthening spleen and invigorating stomach, and can be used to treat fatigue, night sweats, excessive yang due to yin deficiency, backache and leg pain, diarrhea due to chronic illness, convulsion, amenorrhea in women, dystocia, etc."

improve immunity

Turtle is rich in animal glue, keratin, copper, vitamin D and other nutrients, which can enhance human disease resistance and regulate human endocrine function. It is also a nourishing product for improving the quality of breast milk and enhancing the immunity and intelligence of infants.

beauty and skin care

The flippers of soft-shelled turtle are called "tortoise plastron", which is a kind of precious Chinese medicine and has the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire. Can be used for treating soft-shelled turtle, dizziness, asthenic heat, night sweats and other diseases. It also has a good effect on intractable headache left by head trauma (such as neonatal head hematoma). Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis is a kind of high molecular collagen, which contains various amino acids needed by the skin and has the effects of skin care, beauty and fitness. Of course, tortoise plastron is a traditional Chinese medicine, and doctors should decide whether to use it according to the specific situation.

Anti-cancer and cancer inhibition

Carp and its extract can effectively prevent and inhibit liver cancer, gastric cancer and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and can be used to prevent and treat weakness, anemia and leukopenia caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Eliminate stress and reduce blood lipid.

Soft-shelled turtle also has a good blood purification effect, which can reduce blood cholesterol if eaten regularly, and is beneficial to patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Strengthening yang and waist

Turtle can also "replenish strain, strengthen yang, and greatly replenish yin."

Nourishing yin and tonifying deficiency

Eating soft-shelled turtle also has a certain auxiliary effect on many patients with tuberculosis, anemia, physical weakness and so on.

Beneficial parturient

Proper consumption of soft-shelled turtle is beneficial to the recovery of maternal body and improve the quality of breast milk.

How to make soft-shelled turtle delicious?

Turtle is the most popular nourishing aquatic food. Whether it is boiled, stewed, marinated or fried, it is full of flavor and rich in nutrition.

Turtle can be eaten all over the body, especially the soft part hanging on the turtle, which is called "turtle skirt". It is the freshest, tenderest and most delicious part of soft-shelled turtle. Carp is easy to digest and absorb, produces high heat and is extremely rich in nutrition. Generally, it can be made into "turtle soup" for drinking, or it can be made into delicious food for people to enjoy.

(1) Skillfully removes the fishy smell of turtles.

It is difficult to remove the fishy smell of soft-shelled turtle, and washing or adding seasonings such as onion, ginger and wine can not achieve satisfactory results. When the turtle is slaughtered, the gallbladder and bile are taken out from the viscera of the turtle. After washing the turtle, add some water to the turtle bile and smear it all over the turtle; Wait a moment, rinse with clear water, turtle bile is not bitter, don't worry about making turtle bitter.

(2) How to kill soft-shelled turtle

The slaughter process of soft-shelled turtle is: slaughter, blanching, shell opening, evisceration, boiling and washing.

You can turn the turtle over first, and when its head sticks out, chop it off accurately; Or hold the turtle's neck with your left hand and pull out the fish head, and cut the turtle's trachea and blood vessels with your right hand to bleed.

After bleeding, put it in hot water at 70℃ ~ 80℃, take it out for about three or four minutes, then cut it from the bone seams on the lower sides of the turtle skirt, lift the lid, take out the internal organs and wash it with clear water.

Finally, put it in boiling water and cook it slightly to remove blood stains. Take it out and wash it in cold water

A complete book of turtle practice

Turtle soup

Materials:

1 turtle, half chicken, a little sliced onion, ginger and garlic, 50g clear soup, 10g cooking wine, 3g refined salt, 2g monosodium glutamate, 30g peanut oil, 5g sesame oil and 2g star anise.

Exercise:

(1) Chop the head of live soft-shelled turtle, control the blood, wash it, take it out in boiling water, scrape off the black skin, blanch it in boiling water for about 5 minutes, remove the hard cover, take out the five internal organs, chop off the claw tips, chop soft-shelled turtle and chicken into cubes, and blanch it in boiling water.

(2) Scrape off the dirt and thin skin on the hard cover.

(3) Put peanut oil in the spoon, heat it with high fire, and add onion, ginger, garlic slices and star anise.

(4) After fragrant, cook clear soup and cooking wine, add soft-shelled turtle and chicken nuggets, boil them to remove floating foam, turn to medium heat for about 45 minutes, move them to large fire, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, and adjust the taste.

Braised turtle with black chicken

Materials:

500g of soft-shelled turtle, 0/000g of black-bone chicken/kloc-,20g of salt, 2g of monosodium glutamate, 2g of pepper, 25g of cooking wine, 25g of ginger and 25g of onion.

Exercise:

(1) After the turtle is slaughtered and bled, it is scalded with water at 70℃.

(2) blanch in water at 90℃.

(3) Scrape off the rough skin on the neck, claws and skirt, cut it along the skirt with a knife, take out the internal organs and rinse it clean.

(4) Slaughter the claw tip of the turtle with a knife, then blanch it with boiling water, wash it after it comes out, wash the black-bone chicken and slaughter it into pieces, and remove the blood with boiling water.

(5) Wash the pot, add fresh soup, add black-bone chicken, soft-shelled turtle, salt, pepper, ginger, onion and cooking wine, and simmer with low fire until the chicken pieces and soft-shelled turtle are soft and rotten.

(6) Pick ginger and onion and adjust the taste.

Braised Turtle in Brown Sauce

Materials:

Turtle 1, appropriate amount of winter bamboo shoots, a little chicken essence, onion, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sugar, Chili oil and pepper.

Exercise:

(1) Slice onion and ginger, and peel garlic for later use. Cut the winter bamboo shoots into pieces and blanch them for later use.

(2) Cut the pork belly into small pieces. Add water to a clean pot, add cooking wine, ginger and onion, and cook pork belly for about 20 minutes. Take out and drain for later use.

(3) After the soft-shelled turtle is opened, the internal organs are removed. In addition, the small white piece inside has also been removed.

(4) Water the soft-shelled turtle with boiling water and tear off the membrane on the skin.

(5) Chop the processed soft-shelled turtle and blanch it for later use.

(6) Put a little oil in the pot, add onion, ginger and garlic and stir fry until the pork belly is light yellow.

(7) Stir-fry the soft-shelled turtle until the water is dry, add cooking wine, soy sauce, soy sauce, salt and sugar, and stir evenly.

(8) Add water, the amount of water is better than that of soft-shelled turtle. After the fire boils, remove the floating foam and turn to low heat for about 10 minute.

Steamed turtle with rock sugar

Materials:

750g of soft-shelled turtle, 30g of red soy sauce, 1 root onion, 75g of crystal sugar, 3 slices of ginger, 65g of cooked lard, 25g of Shaoxing wine, 35g of peanut oil and 2g of refined salt.

Method:

(1) The soft-shelled turtle lies on its back. When its head sticks out, it quickly grabs its neck with fingers, pulls it out forcibly, elongates its neck bone with its back shell, drains it, and soaks it in hot water at 90℃. When the tortoise shell turns white, take it out, use cold water to remove the white film on the abdomen, legs and skirts, brush off the black on the back shell with a broom, gut and remove the bones, cut off the head, tail and claw tips, then evenly cut it into 8 pieces, put it in a pot and blanch it, then take it out and wash it with clear water, and tear off the blood tendons, spare pieces and butter.

(2) Heat the wok, add peanut oil to the wok, heat it to 80%, add onion and ginger slices, saute until fragrant, push soft-shelled turtle (belly down), cook Shaoxing wine for a while, add 750g of clear water, cook for 3 minutes, then cover it with low fire and stew for about 25 minutes. When the fish pieces are soft and inelastic, add rock sugar and cooked lard (35g), cover and stew for about 20 minutes, then simmer on low fire until the fish pieces and skirts are soft and waxy, then use high fire to collect juice, pick up the marinade, and pour it on the fish pieces while tossing the pot. When the marinade is thick, pour in cooked lard (25g), and then toss the pot with medium fire to adjust the oil until the marinade is obtained.

Stewed roast goose with turtle

Materials:

A turtle, a roast goose, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, onions, ginger slices, a little salt, chicken essence and pepper.

Method:

(1) Slaughter the soft-shelled turtle and cut it into pieces, blanch and wash it, and roast the goose and cut it into pieces.

(2) Spread the onion in the casserole, spread the roast goose on it, add a proper amount of water, and bring it to a boil. When the fragrance comes out, put the turtle and ingredients in.

(3) Stew the soft-shelled turtle with low fire until it is crisp and rotten, and add seasoning to taste, so that it can be eaten.

Can pregnant women know turtles?

Turtle is salty and cold, which has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, so it has some disadvantages of abortion, especially the abortion power of tortoise shell is stronger than that of tortoise meat.

According to modern science, although there is no strong scientific basis for the theory that pregnant women eat soft-shelled turtle, we still advise pregnant women to eat less.

Precautions for turtles

(1) Suitable population

The general population can eat it.

Suitable for people with weak constitution, yin deficiency of liver and kidney, bone steaming strain and malnutrition.

It is suitable for people with low fever due to pulmonary tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

Suitable for all kinds of cancer patients and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

It is suitable for patients with Sjogren's syndrome.

It is suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease and hypertension.

Suitable for patients with hypoproteinemia; Suitable for beriberi patients.

(2) Taboo crowd

Soft-shelled turtle is greasy, which leads to indigestion after long-term consumption, so it has poor appetite, decreased digestive function, and deficiency cold in pregnant women or postpartum.

People with weak spleen and stomach and diarrhea should not eat it.

Chronic enteritis, chronic dysentery and chronic diarrhea are not suitable for people in loose stool.

Patients with hepatitis will increase the burden on the liver, and in severe cases will induce hepatic coma, so eat less.

Pregnant women will affect the health of the fetus.

In addition, people who eat too much phlegm should eat carefully.

(3) Dietary taboos

Dead and spoiled turtles cannot be eaten; Cooked turtle shells have no medicinal value.

The mixture of raw turtle blood and bile will poison the drinker or suffer from severe anemia.

Soft-shelled turtle contains high protein and fat, especially the animal glue on the skirt, which is not easy to digest and absorb, so it is not advisable to eat too much at one time.

(4) Appropriate collocation

Soft-shelled turtle and sugar can clear away heat and toxic materials and induce diuresis.

Turtle ginger (fresh) is suitable for description: nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, replenishing essence and marrow.

Turtle and Fritillaria cirrhosa nourish yin and moisten lung.

Turtle and wax gourd can moisturize skin, improve eyesight and lose weight.

(E) Taboo collocation

Turtle and persimmon can cause indigestion.

Turtle and mustard will get sores.

Turtle cabbage (pickled) will be difficult to digest.

Turtle and celery can be poisoned, and olive branch can detoxify.

Turtles and peaches can be heartbreaking.

Turtle and duck eggs can cause gastrointestinal discomfort.

Turtle and duck meat can cause edema and diarrhea.

The turtle's winter bamboo shoots hurt its vitality.

The turtle died of poisoning when eating with amaranth. Rescue: eat spinach juice.

(6) Selection method

Look at all parts of the tortoise. Excellent soft-shelled turtle with complete appearance, no injury, muscular hypertrophy, shining abdominal armor, blurred back scapula and ribs, thick and upturned skirt, stout legs and agile movements; On the contrary, it is an inferior turtle.

Grasp the turtle's anti-leg nest with your hands, such as fast moving, kicking on all fours and fierce and powerful turtles; If the activity is not flexible, the four feet move slightly or even don't move, it is an inferior turtle.

The inspection is mainly to check whether there are hooks and needles on the turtle's neck. Soft-shelled turtle with hook and needle can't be stored for a long time and transported for a long distance. Inspection method: You can stimulate the turtle's head with hard bamboo chopsticks, let it take a bite, then stretch its neck with one hand and touch it with the other.

Try to turn the tortoise over and lay it flat on the ground. If you can turn over quickly, escape quickly and move flexibly, you are an excellent turtle. If the turnover is slow and the action is slow, they are all inferior turtles.

We should also pay attention to two points. One is to choose turtles. Yuan Mei, a scholar and gourmet in Qing Dynasty, said, "The turtle is old when it is big, but fishy when it is small", so it should be of moderate size and delicious. The second is to choose the season to eat soft-shelled turtle. Turtle fertilizer in winter is the best, and it can be used in spring and autumn, and its quality is slightly inferior. In summer, turtles, commonly known as "mosquito turtles", are generally not delicious.

(7) Preservation of soft-shelled turtle

Live turtles bought can be kept in pots, and the water just drowns the turtle's back, so they can be fed once a week. Soft-shelled turtles bought in summer can be put directly into the fresh-keeping box in the refrigerator, which can prolong the survival time of soft-shelled turtles. If the turtle is slaughtered, it should be eaten as soon as possible.

(8) Eating soft-shelled turtle in summer is delicious without getting angry.

Many people worry that soft-shelled turtles are too nourishing and will easily get angry when eaten in summer. In fact, turtles are cool, so don't worry at all. On the contrary, people who are weak and should be afraid of the cold should eat more to keep healthy.

From the health point of view, it is more important to prevent greed and cold for heatstroke prevention in summer, because in summer, the human body consumes a lot, eats too much cold, increases the burden on the spleen, and dampness invades the human body, making people lose appetite, feel heavy, sleepy and irritable. Therefore, summer tonic should be based on the principles of clearing away the benefits, strengthening the spleen, eliminating summer heat and eliminating dampness. Turtle soup can strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and nourish the liver and kidney.

(9) How to distinguish the authenticity of wild turtles?

The method is as follows:

Observing the turtle's back shell, the wild turtle's back shell is thin, black in color and good in finish.

Look at the turtle's belly. The wild turtle's belly is spotted and white, but the cultured turtle doesn't have this feature.

The toenails of wild turtles are yellowish, sharp and long, which is quite special.

Look at the color of the oil. When killing a turtle, if the oil emitted from the turtle is yellow, it means that the quality of the turtle is very good, mostly wild turtles.

From the appearance characteristics, there are obvious differences between super soft-shelled turtle and qualified soft-shelled turtle, which can be used as a reference by ordinary consumers. The shell of super soft-shelled turtle is cyan or bluish yellow with bright colors; The back color of qualified soft-shelled turtle is gray-black. Good quality soft-shelled turtle's back skin is smooth, without obvious vertical stripes and protrusions; The turtle with lower quality has rough skin, obvious vertical stripes and unevenness.

Food stage table

It is difficult for turtles to digest amaranth, which may cause gastrointestinal stagnation. Duck and soft-shelled turtle are both cold foods. Eating them together is easy to cause diarrhea and indigestion. The food "matched" with soft-shelled turtle, wax gourd soft-shelled turtle, can moisturize and improve eyesight, while wax gourd can dispel dampness and diuresis, clear away heat and detoxify. Eating together is good for your health. Mussel turtle is sweet, salty and flat, and has the effects of nourishing yin, rehydrating and strengthening the body. Spinach has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, softening kidney and resolving hard mass. You can eat both together. American ginseng and soft-shelled turtle eat together, invigorating qi and nourishing yin, clearing fire and nourishing stomach. American ginseng is mild in nature, calming the heart and improving intelligence, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the stomach, and the nourishing effect of soft-shelled turtle is well known. Honey turtle is rich in protein, fat, vitamins and polyacid. It is effective for heart disease, gastrointestinal diseases and anemia. The combination of ginger and tortoise can nourish yin and kidney, replenish essence and marrow, and is suitable for kidney yin deficiency, dizziness, waist and knee pain, dreaminess and nocturnal emission. Lycium barbarum Turtle Both Lycium barbarum and Turtle have the effect of nourishing liver and kidney. Both of them have stronger nourishing effect and can improve dizziness, shortness of breath, night sweats, anemia and other symptoms. Write the full text of the previous page (*** 24644 words) and expand the whole content.