There is a folk saying in our county that "carp eats meat and turtles drink soup", which means that the purpose of eating carp is to eat its meat, while the purpose of eating turtle (commonly known as "turtle") is to drink soup. Because turtle is rich in nutrition and is most suitable for making soup, it can play a great role, so turtle generally eats soup.

The basic method of turtle soup is to take 1 live turtle (about 1 kg) from the lake. Take half a raw chicken (about 200 grams) and add a little onion, ginger and garlic slices as ingredients. Prepare 50g of clear soup, 0/0g of cooking wine/kloc-,3g of refined salt, 2g of monosodium glutamate, 30g of peanut oil, 5g of sesame oil and 2 pieces of star anise as seasoning.

Chop the head of live soft-shelled turtle, control the blood, wash it, take it out in boiling water, scrape off the black skin, cook it in boiling water for about 5 minutes, take it out, 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. Scrape the dirt and thin skin off the hard skin.

Add peanut oil to the spoon, heat it with high fire, add onion, ginger, garlic slices and octagonal wok, cook clear soup and cooking wine, add turtle and chicken pieces, boil to remove foam, and switch to medium fire for about 45 minutes. When the turtle and chicken pieces are cooked and the soup is milky white, move to high fire and add refined salt, monosodium glutamate and chicken pieces. ?

Flavor characteristics: the soup is white and yellow with abnormal flavor.

fish soup

Comprises 500g of soft-shelled turtle, 250g of mutton and 3g of tsaoko. Ginger, pepper, salt, monosodium glutamate.

Efficacy: nourishing kidney and stomach. It is suitable for dizziness, tinnitus, hot flashes, night sweats, abdominal pain and anorexia caused by deficiency of kidney yin and deficiency of spleen and stomach yang.

Method and usage:

1) Boil the turtle to death, chop off its head and claws, remove its shell, take out its internal organs and wash it. Wash the mutton for later use.

2) Cut the soft-shelled turtle and mutton into 2cm square pieces, put them into aluminum pot, then add Tsaoko and ginger, add appropriate amount of water, bring them to a boil with strong fire, and move them to slow fire for stewing until the meat is cooked.

3) Add salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate to aluminum pot.

4) When eating, it can be eaten with meals or alone. Divide it into several parts.

Lycium barbarum and Chinese yam turtle soup

Raw materials: 800g soft-shelled turtle, 30g medlar, 30g yam, refined salt, yellow wine, onion, ginger slices and lard.

Methods: First, the soft-shelled turtle was killed, then the head and neck were cut, and the trachea and viscera were cut by laparotomy. Chop off the claws, blanch them in a boiling pot, scrape off the black mucosa on the back shell and chop them into several pieces. Turtle shells can be stewed with soft-shelled turtles in a soup pot. Wash and slice yam, and wash medlar. Pour a proper amount of water into the pot, add turtle, medlar, yam, refined salt, yellow wine, onion, ginger slices and lard, boil over high fire, then simmer over low fire until the meat is cooked and rotten, and pick out onion and ginger.

Efficacy: Moisturize skin and blacken hair, and be used for symptoms such as dry skin and dull muscles. The food has effects of blackening hair, moistening skin and resisting aging.