Although there are many ways to cook clams, the most common methods are quick stir-frying and spicy stir-frying. When stir-frying clams with spicy flavors, it requires high heat and fast cooking. Spicy stir-fried clams can perfectly showcase the color, shape, and taste of clams. Today, I will introduce various methods of stir-frying clams, including spicy stir-fried clams.
Clam Facts
Clams are very popular seafood that live in sandy areas of shallow seas. They are produced along China's coastlines. The shape of clams is long and oval, with a long siphon that is white and often extends out of the shell, resembling a tongue, hence their nickname “Beauty's Tongue.” Clams have high nutritional value and provide benefits such as nourishing yin, clearing heat, and detoxifying alcohol. Postpartum women eating clams can help replenish their bodies and relieve thirst from heat. The most common way to cook clams is by stir-frying them with spicy flavors.
Introduction to Spicy Stir-Fried Clams
Ingredients Preparation
400 grams of clams, 10 grams of minced garlic, sliced ginger, an appropriate amount of deseeded and chopped dried chili peppers, a moderate amount of pepper powder, a small amount of green and red pepper strips, a moderate amount of salt, and 50 milliliters of oil.
Cooking Steps
1. Soak the clams in lightly salted water for about 3 hours to make them expel sand, then scoop out and drain.
2. Heat the wok, add oil, minced garlic, ginger slices, and dried chili peppers to fry until fragrant. Add the cooked clams and stir-fry.
3. Add green and red pepper strips and stir evenly. Season with salt and pepper.
How to Make Delicious Spicy Stir-Fried Clams
Ingredients Preparation
200 grams of eggs, 300 grams of clam meat. 4 grams of salt, a little bit of monosodium glutamate, pepper powder, and scallion oil each, 10 grams of scallion segments.
Cooking Steps
1. Crack the eggs into a bowl and beat well; blanch the clam meat, remove the shells, clean, and mix with scallion segments, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper powder.
2. Heat a small amount of oil in a pan, first stir-fry the egg mixture, then add the clam meat and stir evenly. Cook until the eggs turn golden yellow, then drizzle with scallion oil.
How to Make Delicious Leek Stir-Fried Clams
Ingredients Preparation
500 grams of clams, 100 grams of leeks. A small amount of scallion, ginger, and minced garlic, 2 teaspoons (10 milliliters) of cooking wine, 1 teaspoon (5 milliliters) of soy sauce. 1 gram of salt, monosodium glutamate, and pepper powder each, a small amount of oil.
Cooking Steps
1. Wash the leeks and cut into sections. Clean the clams and let them expel any remaining mud.
2. Bring water to a boil, add a small amount of cooking wine and the clams. Once the shells open, scoop out and set aside.
3. Heat oil in a pan, sauté the minced scallion, ginger, and garlic, then add the clams and stir-fry. Add pepper powder, salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, soy sauce for seasoning, and stir in the leeks until evenly mixed.
Tips for Making Delicious Spicy Stir-Fried Clams
1. The time for blanching the clams should not be too long; once the shells open, turn off the heat and drain them immediately. This helps retain the fresh taste of the seafood.
2. When eating clams, it is best to remove the black line around the clam meat because this line acts as a seal between the inside and outside of the shell and may be dirty.