How to cook delicious prawns and how to cook prawns with nutritional value

Introduction to Prawns

Prawns are edible animals found in water. Prawns are crustaceans related to crabs and lobsters. They have a flat, elastic, translucent body in the middle and a fan-like tail. Prawns are also a network term, referring to those who are good at using the Internet and have certain network skills. It is a homonym of "daxia".

How to cook prawns with nutritional value

protein

Prawns contain 20% protein, making them one of the foods with a high protein content, several to dozens of times that of fish, eggs, and milk.

Amino Acids

Compared with fish, prawns do not contain as much valine, an essential amino acid for the human body, but they are a nutritionally balanced source of protein. In addition, prawns contain glycine. The higher the content of this amino acid, the sweeter the prawns will taste.

Taurine

Prawns contain 20% protein, which is one of the foods with high protein content.

The taurine contained in prawns can lower blood pressure and cholesterol in the human body, so it has a certain effect in preventing metabolic syndrome.

Trace element zinc

Prawns are rich in the trace element zinc, which can improve symptoms such as taste disorders, growth disorders, skin discomfort and sperm deformity caused by zinc deficiency.

magnesium

The magnesium contained in prawns plays an important role in regulating heart activity and can protect the cardiovascular system well. It can lower serum cholesterol levels, prevent arteriosclerosis, and dilate coronary arteries, which is beneficial for preventing hypertension and myocardial infarction.

The magnesium contained in prawns plays an important role in regulating heart activity.

calcium

Shrimp skin is rich in calcium and contains an animal fiber called chitin, which is a type of polysaccharide that cannot be digested and absorbed by the human body. After chemical treatment, it can be dissolved in water to make chitosan health food.

Astaxanthin

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

sodium

Regulate osmotic pressure, maintain acid-base balance, maintain normal blood pressure, and enhance neuromuscular excitability.

How to cook delicious prawns

Method 1

1. Wash the prawns, fill a large basin with clean water, grab the tail of the prawns with your hands, and use a brush to clean the abdomen and head of the prawns.

3 kg fresh red shrimp

2. Cut off the shrimp head and clean the mud inside the head.

3. Use your hand to grab the middle one of the three tails of the shrimp and pull out the intestines.

4. Wash repeatedly with water, and when clear water comes out, put it in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Take it out and rinse it with clean water.

5. After the oil is heated, add the Sichuan peppercorns, red pepper, green pepper, garlic, ginger, and chopped green onion. Put in more Sichuan peppercorns. If you are afraid of spicy food, put less. Wait until the Sichuan peppercorns are burnt and then scoop them out.

6. Add red pepper, garlic, ginger, and shrimps to high heat and stir-fry. When the aroma comes out, add salt, seasoning, chopped green onion, green pepper, and continue to stir-fry. When the prawns turn bright red and dry, add salt, star anise, amomum villosum, and tsaoko, add boiling water to cover the prawns, simmer for 10 minutes over high heat, then add scallion, garlic, sugar, ginger, green pepper, and MSG and simmer for another 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and serve.

Cut off the shrimp head and clean the mud inside the head

Features: bright red color, spicy, tender, appetizing.

Method 2

1. Wash the fresh shrimps, open their backs, remove the shrimp threads, and cut off the shrimp claws, shrimp whiskers, and shrimp claws.

2. Wash the cabbage leaves, tear them into pieces by hand, and drain the water.

3. Slice the green onion, ginger and garlic; cut the coriander leaves into sections.

4. Heat the pan with cold oil and fry the shrimps over low heat, pressing down the shrimp heads with a spatula while frying.

5. Squeeze out the shrimp brain and fry until the oil turns orange-yellow.

6. Add onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Then turn to high heat and add cabbage leaves and stir-fry.

7. Press the cabbage with a spatula while frying until the cabbage leaves become soft, add a little salt to season; add coriander leaves and stir-fry evenly.