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Oil-fried Silkworm Pupa

January 24, 2021 by QingH Leave a Comment

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Have you ever eaten cicada chrysalis?​​ Cicada pupa, also known as cicada monkey, is highly nutritious.​​ It contains a high amount of potassium, which can supplement potassium intake for people and help regulate blood pressure.​​ Moderate consumption of cicada monkey has a blood pressure-lowering effect.​​ In addition, it is rich in protein, providing essential amino acids for the human body and helping maintain radiant and youthful skin.​​ Moreover, its main components, chitin and protein, are important ingredients in Xin cool solution, which are known for their antibacterial, cold-relieving, and diuretic effects.​​ Therefore, cicada monkeys are highly beneficial for the human body, especially for women.

Silkworm chrysalis

Silkworm chrysalis

Although the cicada chrysalis has so much nutritional value, its appearance is extremely strange, leading many people to resist eating cicada chrysalis. But I do suggest you let your guard down and try it. Even if it’s just one, you’ll be impressed with this food. This season is the best to eat cicadas, high in protein, low in fat, summer energy! Today I want to share with you a delicious food – silkworm chrysalis! I bought fresh silkworm pupa 7 yuan a ticket, half catty can be a plate fried, the price is not expensive, suitable for frequent consumption. Silkworms are good things. It is a high protein, low fat food. It can relieve fatigue, improve immunity, promote fat metabolism, so that everyone will not get fat! What a shame not to have such good ingredients more often! But be careful when eating it for the first time, as a small percentage of people are allergic to silkworm pupae.

How to make oil-fried silkworm pupa

It can be seen that the protein content of golden cicada nymphs is much higher than that of any animal meat and poultry eggs; and because it also contains a variety of nutrients necessary for the human body, as well as the role of auxiliary treatment of disease, it is a rare natural pollution-free high-level nutritional food. And because it also contains a variety of nutrients necessary for the human body, it has an excellent auxiliary therapeutic effect on promoting growth and development, supplementing the consumption of body metabolism, and rehabilitation of patients with physical deficiency, etc. According to the records of Chinese Materia Medica, Jincicada is beneficial to strengthening Yang, relieving cough and promoting fluid production, protecting lung and kidney, antibacterial and lowering blood pressure, treating baldness and suppressing cancer. Cicada is rich in meltdown, isoxanthopterin and adenosine triphosphatase. It is often used to treat symptoms such as external wind and heat, cough and hoarseness, sore throat, rubella itching, red eyes, tetanus, and children crying at night. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cicada shedding salty and sweet taste, cold, can clear heat, wind, panic. The cicada is rich in protein, and cicada is effective in treating stomach disease.

In modern society, people pay more attention to their own health and the requirements for quality of life continue to improve, and cicada will undoubtedly become one of the green foods people choose.​ There are many kinds of eating methods for golden cicadas. There is a habit of eating golden cicadas in various areas of our country. There is no textual research on when it arose.​

Silkworm chrysalis

In recent years, with the improvement of people’s living standards, golden cicada has climbed onto the tables of major hotels and restaurants, and has become a game dish that consumers compete to taste. And it is made into canned cicadas, soft packaged food and other oceans to earn dollars. It can be said that the golden cicada is a treasure. ​So how do you make cicada chrysalis? Let me get you.

Step1

The most important thing for us is to buy the cicada chrysalis first, do not be too expensive, must buy good, good cicada chrysalis nutritional value is high. In fact, the silkworm method is very simple. After simple processing, deep-fried will be very fragrant. Like this fresh silkworm chrysalis, I think frying is the best way. When buying, be sure to choose the whole head, the color changes from brown to light yellow, the smell should be no odor, and the taste is better.

Step2

Buy the silkworm chrysalis home, bring a large basin, pour the silkworm chrysalis into the basin, and then access water, rinse the silkworm chrysalis with water several times. At the beginning of the wash out of the water is black, it does not matter, wash several times, until the water becomes clear, then the silkworm chrysalis will be washed clean. It is best to boil the washed silkworm chrysalis with boiling water, so that the bacteria in the chrysalis will be killed, and then scoop the silkworm chrysalis up with a sieve.

Step3

Get a pot, clean the pot, put it on the stove, turn the fire on, heat the oil in the pot. Boil the oil on high heat, and when the oil has a sizzling sound to prove that the oil temperature reaches 50%, we then pour the washed silkworm pupae into the pan. Be sure to remember to put it gently, don’t be too anxious, put it all down at once, because it will splash hot oil and even burn you. Add the silkworm pupae, continue to fry on high heat until the pupae becomes shallow. Then you can remove the oil control.

Step4

When the pupa is done, it’s ready to go through the sieve and take it out, put it in a bowl and wait for it to cool. Sprinkle salt on your last bite. If you like cumin, sprinkle it with cumin powder or cayenne pepper.

Who is not suitable for eating silkworm pupae? Silkworm pupa is suitable for stir-frying, frying, roasting, frying, boiling, marinating, spicing, roasting, stewing, soaking and other cooking methods, but not raw food. The following people are not suitable for eating silkworm chrysalis: 1. People who are allergic to seafood: Silkworm chrysalis is a hair food, which can cause allergic symptoms such as itchy skin, red lips or gastrointestinal discomfort in people who are allergic to alloprotein; 2, spleen, stomach, intestine, renal dysfunction of the population: due to the high protein content, silkworm pupa may increase the burden of gastrointestinal digestion and kidney metabolic burden.

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Oil-fried Silkworm Pupa

Prep Time5 mins
Cook Time10 mins
Course: Homely
Cuisine: Chinese
Keyword: Oil-fried Silkworm Pupa
Servings: 3 people

Equipment(affiliate link)

  • pot

Ingredients(affiliate link)

  • 250 g silkworm chrysalis

Accessories

  • oil
  • salt

Filed Under: Blog, Homely Recipes, Recipes, Tutorials Tagged With: Oil-fried Silkworm Pupa, Other Cuisine

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