What ingredients are needed to make clams? How to clean clams?

The flower clams are very popular because of their tender meat, delicious taste and high nutritional value. They are highly nutritious and have the title of "the best delicacy in the world". They can be used to make special dishes such as flower clams with vermicelli, flower clams with rice noodles, and fried flower clams with garlic. Friends who like to eat flower clams know that flower clams are delicious but must be cleaned because they contain some sand, otherwise they will knock against the teeth, which is very uncomfortable.

Contents of this article

1. What ingredients are needed to make clams?

2. How to clean the flower snails

3. Are flower shells kitchen waste?

What ingredients are needed to make flower clams?

The necessary ingredients for cooking clams are onions, ginger, and garlic, which can remove the fishy smell and disinfect. You can also add salt, oyster sauce, chili, soy sauce, cooking wine, seafood sauce and other ingredients according to your personal taste. Before cooking clams, you need to soak them in salt water for more than 2 hours, wait for the clams to spit out the mud and sand, and then scrub them clean.

The meat of clams is tender and fresh with high nutritional value, and is known as “the most delicious in the world”.

Clams are very easy to cook, and can be used to make special dishes such as clam vermicelli pot, clam rice noodles, and stir-fried clams with garlic.

Clamps contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, and various mineral components such as iodine, calcium, phosphorus, and iron.

How to clean flower snails

When cleaning the snail, the main thing is to make it spit out the mud and sand in its body. You can put salt and sesame oil in the water, then put the snail in, and soak it for about an hour, and the snail will spit out the mud and sand in its body. Or put vinegar in the water, then it takes two hours for the snail to spit out all the mud and sand.

Flower snails are mainly distributed in the coastal areas of Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi in China, as well as in countries and regions such as Japan, Australia, the Philippines, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf. They are deeply loved by people because of their tender meat, delicious taste and high nutritional value.

Flower snails are shallow-sea benthic shellfish that mostly live in the soft mud at the bottom of the subtidal zone at a depth of 0.5 to 3.5 m during high tide. Their density is particularly high in muddy and sandy bottoms mixed with pebbles, broken shells and humus, especially in depressions on the seabed.

Due to their burrowing lifestyle, flower snails are relatively weak in mobility and do not have the ability to migrate over large distances, but their axe-foot muscles are well developed and they can move within a small area. Flower snails tend to have a simple structure and rely on their comb gills to filter algae in the water for filter feeding.

Are flower shells kitchen waste?

Flower shells are not kitchen waste, but dry waste. Kitchen waste, also known as wet waste, is easily corruptible waste, and refers to food waste, leftovers, expired food, melon peels, fruit cores, etc. Flower shells are not easily corruptible and have a hard texture, which can easily damage the garbage crushing blades, so they are classified as dry waste.

The eaten flower shells belong to other garbage, also known as dry garbage. Although the flower shells meet the waste signs of "leftover food and bones" in kitchen waste, the flower shells are not easy to rot and are hard, so they are not kitchen waste.

Kitchen waste contains a high amount of water and organic matter, which is easy to rot and produce bad odors. After proper treatment and processing, it can be transformed into new resources. Flower shells do not belong to this type of waste.

Flower shells can easily destroy the terminal processing equipment of wet garbage, so they are treated as dry garbage. Similarly, oyster shells, coconut shells, durian shells, walnut shells, etc. are also treated as dry garbage.