Have you ever eaten rock jelly, eaten sucking jelly, eaten pudding jelly, then have you ever eaten clay shoot jelly? Don't underestimate its ordinary name, it is not an ordinary jelly, its raw material is - black black fat worm!
Today, let the Little Strange Institute take you to explore what the clay shoot jelly made by this "heavy mouth" bug is.
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Coastal areas of southern Fujian (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
Native shoot jelly, originating from the coastal area of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, the vast ocean gives the minnan people a rich opportunity to taste seafood. Crystal white, tender and vigorous, elastic bamboo shoots, with vinegar, soy sauce, garlic paste, celery, ginger shreds, pepper rings and other condiments, form a peculiar Southern Fujian characteristics.
What exactly is the "earth shoot" in the soil shoot jelly? It's not really a bamboo shoot.
The scientific name of the earth shoot is Coca-Gram, which belongs to the Phylum of Starworms, the order Cystaceae, and the family Crateridae. Wild on the tidal flats where coastal rivers enter the sea at the confluence of brackish water, a protein-rich link mollusk known scientifically as "star worm" similar to earthworms. It contains gum, two or three inches long, its appearance is rough, the color is black and brown, and the cylinder is like a bamboo shoot, so it is called "earth shoot".
Earth shoots (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
National hero Zheng Chenggong (picture from the Internet invasion and deletion)
The "Min Xiao Ji" written by Zhou Lianggong in the Qing Dynasty has a record: "Yu often eats soil shoot jelly in Fujian, the taste is very rare, but it smells like an earthworm, that is, Sand Sunda." ”
This is exactly what this strange delicacy is about. According to legend, the earth shoot jelly was successfully invented by the national hero Zheng. In that year, when Zheng Chenggong was ordered to fight, just when there was a shortage of grain and grass, the soldiers went to the sea to dig up a large number of soil shoots to cook into soup to eat. The war was busy, once, Zheng Chenggong did not have time to eat in time, he directly ate the frozen earthen shoot soup when he was empty, did not expect that the taste was so delicious, so Zheng Chenggong inadvertently invented the Anhai soil shoot jelly.
Anhai soil shoot jelly (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
Later, on this basis, people made continuous improvements to the soil shoot jelly, gradually enriched its seasoning, and formed the soil shoot jelly we see now.
How did the black, black, fat and chubby earthen shoot insects turn on the "beauty function" of skin grinding, whitening and slimming into crystal clear soil shoot jelly? The traditional method of jellying bamboo shoots is actually very simple.
The first step is to prepare a pot of black and fat bamboo shoots baby ~
Fresh earthen shoots (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
The second step is to help the bamboo shoots "slim down". That is, the internal dirt in the body of the bamboo shoot is squeezed out (the extrusion tool usually uses stone grinding, wooden sticks, etc.), leaving only a thin skin of the soil shoot meat. In this link, the inner os of the bamboo shoots: we are not really bamboo shoots, but the foodies squash us are the real "bamboo shoots"!
Bamboo shoots that turn into thin skin (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
The third step is to "polish the skin and whiten" the bamboo shoots. That is, wash the black skin of the earthen shoot to reveal its own fair skin
Washed bamboo shoots (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
The fourth step is to boil the soil shoot soup and fully boil the gum in its body to make the soup viscous.
Boiled bamboo shoot soup (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
In the fifth step, pour the soup into the mold, add a few more bamboo shoots, put them in the refrigerator and refrigerate, and wait for them to condense into freezing.
Frozen finished products of earthen shoots (picture from the Network, invasion and deletion)
The sixth step is to prepare your favorite sauce, usually vinegar, soy sauce, garlic paste, celery, ginger shreds, chili rings and other condiments, and then pour the soup on the jelly of the bamboo shoots and you're done!
Rich seasoning of soil shoot jelly (image from the Internet invasion and deletion)
Knowing such a peculiar snack, do you have the idea of trying a bowl? Come on Warriors! this bowl of worms!
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