Since ancient times, there is an old saying called "once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope", which is said that once bitten by a snake, for a long time in the future, when you see the rope, you will be afraid and mistakenly think it is a snake. This animal, in our impression, is relatively cold, and when we see it, we will hide far away, and there is a sense of awe for it, and we will stay away. Of course, this is what most people think, but some people are not afraid, and they have developed various delicacies with snake meat.
People eat snake meat is not a new thing that has risen in recent years, in fact, as early as ancient China, there are records of eating snake meat, such as the "Compendium of Materia Medica" wrote: "Southern people love snakes." The Southerners in it probably refer to the Guangdong area, after all, the Cantonese people have studied the strange way of eating snakes, insects and ants in terms of cuisine. Until now, I can't understand why Cantonese people's love of eating is so different. At present, in addition to the Guangdong people who like to eat snakes very much, there may not be a second one who likes to eat snakes more than changsha people. In changsha, Hunan Province, although there are many methods such as green pepper stewed snake, secret snake, dry pot snake, fried snake meat, the most popular is the flavor snake in Hunan cuisine.
Most of the snakes used are artificially farmed, but although they are not wild, they are not much different from semi-wild. Unlike the breeding of ordinary animals, artificial snake breeding is to put the snake in the mountains of an area, build a circular wall around it, keep the environment inside wild, and raise snakes through captivity. Of course, there will also be a small number of wild snakes transported in the Guangdong Wildlife Market, and the snake meat used to make the taste snake is mostly chosen, which are three non-venomous snakes such as flower snake, big king snake and water law snake, but some people will use the eye snake to make it. But I personally recommend that it is better to choose a non-venomous snake if you eat it, in case the cobra's toxins are not cleaned up, it will be embarrassing.
The taste snake method in Hunan cuisine was originally a blacksmith named Hu Jianmin in Ningxiang, Hunan Province, who had nothing to eat snake meat at home, and later opened a small restaurant in the village to launch this flavor snake, which was not expected to be particularly popular in the local area, so it also became the signature dish of his restaurant. Later, he became famous by participating in the cooking competition in Hunan Province, and was only known to people. Now the snake method is roughly divided into two ways: light snake soup and spicy flavor snake, and the taste snake is the hunan dish method. It has the characteristics of fresh and delicate meat, spicy and refreshing entrance, fresh and delicious soup, looking up at the plate full of bright colors, snake meat red and shiny, people can't help but swallow.
For snake meat itself, it is rich in calcium, iron, zinc and vitamins and other trace elements, which has a high nutritional value and has a good effect on softening blood vessels and enhancing brain vitality. In addition, it also has anti-inflammatory and detoxification, wind and blood circulation, health care and beauty effects, but eating snake meat also has a certain risk. Some people don't eat snake meat because they don't dare to eat it because they think of what a snake looks like, and others avoid it because the snake carries germs. Because snake food, especially wild snakes mostly feed on mice, frogs and other small animals, there are some parasites in the body, but also carry Salmonella or some bacteria that cause gastrointestinal diseases, if the snake meat is not clean processed, it is likely to be harmful to the body, such as snake tongue worm disease.
However, you don't have to worry about this, because the general restaurant will carry out high-temperature anti-virus treatment when making flavor snakes, so it is still more reassuring to eat. If you want to eat snake meat, I suggest that you eat it now. Because at this time, the snake must accumulate energy in the body to prepare for hibernation, a large fat, full flesh, eat it will be cool. Of course, if you are still not sure whether the snake meat in the hotel can be handled clean, then take matters into your own hands and learn from me how to make this flavor snake, just four steps, you can cook at home, the operation is very simple, easy to start cooking.
First of all, the ingredients used are prepared, the main ingredient is snake meat, and the auxiliary ingredients are peppercorns, star anise, dried chili peppers, red peppers, garlic cloves, and oil and salt sauce and starch. When buying a snake, if you are afraid, you can let the vendor kill it and then take it home.
Step 1: Wash the snake meat and chop it into small pieces, then cut the red pepper into pieces and set aside.
Step 2: Heat the pan and add cooking oil to a boil, then add the snake meat and fry until the color is yellow.
Step 3: Put the chili pepper, star anise, peppercorns, garlic cloves, cinnamon into the oil and stir-fry, then add the hot sauce to make the red oil, then pour the snake meat into it and stir-fry for a while, pour in the appropriate amount of hot boiling water and cover the lid.
Step 4: Put the red pepper into the pot, sprinkle with the right amount of edible salt, then add starch and chicken essence and cook for 3 minutes, then pour in the appropriate amount of sesame oil to taste, out of the pot can be eaten.
Personally, I think that in the production process, snake meat should not be cooked too badly, otherwise the meat will become loose, and there is no such feeling of chewing, just like when we usually eat duck neck and chicken neck, what we like is the feeling of biting. There is also how much pepper to put in should also be selected according to personal taste, I suggest you can put more, so that it will be spicy and refreshing. Although the snake will make people afraid, but the taste of the snake after cooking, absolutely not what you imagine the snake looks like, and eat once estimated that you will fall in love with this dish, the operation is simple and convenient, suitable for trying cooking at home.
If you don't tell you it's snake meat when you eat it, how will you react after eating it? Welcome to leave a message below to discuss!