What are the life habits, types and eating methods of Meretrix meretrix?

Meretrix meretrix belongs to Mollusca, Claudiobranchia, Cladocera, Cladocera and Meretrix. Commonly known as "Meretrix meretrix", a treasure in shellfish, is named after its smooth surface and beautiful red, brown and black patterns.

Meretrix meretrix is a kind of buried shellfish, which is mostly distributed in the intertidal zone near the flat estuary and the fine sand mudflats in the shallow sea area. It has the habit of diving sand by drilling and digging the axe feet. Meretrix meretrix is a kind of wide-temperature brackish water shellfish, which has certain adaptability to low salinity seawater, and its seedlings are more suitable to low relative density seawater. Meretrix meretrix is a filter-feeding mollusk, which relies on its own inlet and outlet pipes for breathing and feeding.

Meretrix meretrix is delicious and nutritious, and is deeply loved by diners at home and abroad. It is said that people began to eat clams two or three thousand years ago. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty once ate clam in Suzhou when he went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and called it "the freshest in the world". Since then, this nickname has spread to this day and is famous all over the world. Clams can be eaten in many ways. Can be used as the main course, stir-fried with fire; Or as a side dish, full of color and flavor; Or cut into minced meat, supplemented with flour, eggs and ginger, and fried into clam cakes. After washing the mussel shell, marinate it with salt, then wash it with clear water, pour it with white wine, sesame oil, soy sauce and vinegar, and mix it with ginger powder and sugar, which is most suitable as an appetizer.

Wax gourd clam soup

Ingredients: cooking wine 1 tablespoon pepper 1 teaspoon refined salt 2 teaspoons monosodium glutamate 1 teaspoon ingredients: wax gourd 300 g clam 300 g shallot 2 ginger 1 small piece.

Production process:

1. Peel wax gourd, remove seeds, and cut into 2 cm square pieces; Wash ginger and leek

2. Wash Meretrix meretrix with clear water, add salt, ginger, chives and cooking wine in boiling water to remove fishy smell.

3. After the clams are opened, drain the internal organs and sediment.

4. Pour water into the soup bowl, add the clam, steam in the steamer for half an hour, and take it out after it tastes delicious.

5. Add wax gourd slices to the soup, season with salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate, and cover with steam 10 minute.

Steamed eggs with clams

Exercise:

1. Break the eggs, add cold boiled water 1.5 times, and add some salt to taste;

2. Filter the egg liquid into a bowl with a strainer and put it in the clam;

3. Steam in cold water to see that the clams are opened by heat and the eggs are solidified (about 7-8 minutes);

4. Drop sesame oil and sprinkle with black pepper.