I've shared several posts about wild Canadian sea cucumbers, so I often receive similar questions from Goku Q&A, some of which are more common:
What is a sea cucumber flower? Is it a pity that the sea cucumber flowers are lost? How to eat sea cucumber flowers? As nutritious as sea cucumbers are not...
Below I intend to put all the secrets I know about sea cucumber flowers in this article.
After you finish reading it, you have also become an expert in Arctic sea cucumber flowers.
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Of course sea cucumbers don't bloom! Sea cucumbers are not plants.
Sea cucumber flowers are actually the long tentacles of the sea cucumber's mouth and head. Because the shape is a bit like a flower, or rather, cauliflower.
Canadian sea cucumber is also called leaf melon ginseng, if you see its real picture of the seabed, it is really a bit like a large cucumber top flower with thorns.
You see this wild sea cucumber below is really strong and fat, what a big cauliflower on the top of the head!
Like many undersea animals, these tentacles flutter with the sea and are delivered to the mouth by the way. While dancing the "Seaweed Dance" and eating, the sea cucumber is really comfortable.
What's in the belly of the sea cucumber? Let's look at an anatomical map of a Canadian Arctic sea cucumber:
This picture shows a very careful picture of a complete Arctic sea cucumber with all its offal that cannot be eaten.
However, the ginseng in different seas looks different and eats differently. It is mentioned here that the sea cucumber intestine eggs (reproductive glands) in the japanese sea are also dried and eaten by the locals, and they are also named "sea cucumber flowers".
This sea cucumber has a completely different shape from the Canadian Arctic ginseng
The Japanese sea cucumber flower looks like this and is a sea cucumber intestine egg
The Canadian Arctic ginseng we usually buy has all the internal organs removed, removed the appearance of the head and tail ends, and then dried, like a dry tube.
Then the removed sea cucumber flower is not offal, it is also edible.
So the knowledge point comes: the regular brands that generally sell Arctic sea cucumbers will also sell sea cucumber flowers, because their processing plants will not be willing to throw away the sea cucumber flowers; and those OEM companies will only focus on higher profits to buy sea cucumbers, not sell sea cucumber flowers.
The sea cucumber flower attached to the head of the sea cucumber looks like this:
The purely plucked sea cucumber flowers look like this:
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To say the taste, sea cucumber flowers are similar to sea cucumbers, that is, the tender seafood taste, even softer, more fresh; to say the taste, between the sting and the dragon's whiskers, if it is a wild sea cucumber flower with a long growth period, it has a crispy strength to eat.
Dried sea cucumber flowers
Before making a dish, first soak the sea cucumber flowers you bought in water overnight, so that it can naturally restore its own moisture, and it can be used for cooking.
Generally speaking, the sand in the sea cucumber flowers is very small, and a little grasping with the hand is enough to clean it.
The sea cucumber flowers of ordinary sea cucumbers are smaller, but the sea cucumber flowers of wild Canadian Arctic ginseng are golden red in color and thick, and shaped like corals after foaming.
Soaked sea cucumber flowers
Whether as the protagonist or mixed with other ingredients as a supporting role, the Arctic wild sea cucumber flower has a rather dedicated and wonderful performance.
It can be boiled directly without any seasoning, and it has a fresh sea cucumber flavor. Therefore, the most common method of sea cucumber flowering is to boil soup. The soup ingredients that are often accompanied are: flower gum, shiitake mushrooms, Huaishan, goji berries, lotus seeds, red dates and so on.
However, the average family does not stew big chicken and fish every day, the simplest way to eat, is to use a little soaked sea cucumber flowers to add to the egg flower soup, it has achieved a bowl of delicious, and easy to absorb the nutrition soup.
If you cook salty porridge, it is also suitable for putting a few sea cucumber flowers.
Some people use sea cucumber flowers to make stir-frying, make cold dishes, and even use them to make tea and brew wine. In short, the usage is very much.
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We make our own sea cucumber flower stewed old chicken
As far as I know, the nutrition of Arctic wild sea cucumber flowers is the same as that of Arctic wild sea cucumbers. What kind of nutrition is specific, can not be written casually in the headlines, must be the health qualifications of the nutritionist, so everyone to check the various information on the Internet, I will not say more.
But just from the perspective of cost performance, I must remind everyone that the second knowledge point comes, the average person does not know: although the taste and nutritional value are not too much, but to buy, the Arctic wild sea cucumber flower can be much cheaper than the Arctic ginseng!
It is simply a home-cooked soup artifact, cheap and large bowls are also nutritious, and drink casually.
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