How to clean a sea hare

Many people like to eat sea hares very much, because the meat of this seafood tastes very tender, so it is so popular with so many people. However, many people do not know how to clean sea hares before cooking, and they always fail to clean them thoroughly, which will affect the taste and cause people to ingest some toxic substances during cooking. Therefore, the internal organs of the sea hare must be cleaned thoroughly.

Cleaning method :

When cleaning sea slugs, some people usually tear off the mucous membrane on the surface of the body, break off its head and tentacles, and finally pick out the internal organs. This cleaning method is wrong. Most of the edible parts are removed, leaving only a thin layer of mantle muscle, which is really a waste. It should be noted that the head and arms of the sea hare are also edible parts, and the eggs inside do not need to be cleaned out when cleaning the sea hare. If you don't like the eggs, you can remove them.

When cleaning a sea hare, first wash its surface, pull out the sea hare's head and clean it. In most cases, this will also bring out the ink sac. Be careful not to break it when cleaning, otherwise it will make the sea hare black. There is a thin, transparent, plastic-like substance along the inside of the sea hare's back, which should be removed when cleaning. There is ink in the eyes of sea hares. To clean it out, you can use scissors or a knife to cut a slit in the eye and then squeeze out part of the eye.

Generally speaking, fresh sea hares need to be soaked in water in advance. First, take out the soft palate in the middle of the whiskers, and then use your fingernails to stroke the whiskers one by one to scrape off the sand and other dirt on the whiskers. After that, you need to cut it open. There is a transparent plastic-like thing along the inside of the spine. Pull it out, cut along the spine, open it up and take out the internal organs. Note that there is a black thing in the internal organs. Take it out carefully, otherwise it will make the sea hare black. Then peel off the purple transparent film on the outside of the sea hare. After completing the above steps, just clean it. If it is frozen bagged dried sea hare, soak it in water one hour in advance, and then clean it according to the above method. Everyone must clean it thoroughly before eating, the internal organs of this kind of seafood are not edible.

Sea hare, a kind of snail, is a general term for marine gastropods in the family Aplysia, also known as sea slug. Naked gills are a type of shellfish that live in shallow waters. It is a special member of the crustacean mollusk family. Their shells have degenerated into inner shells. There is a thin transparent shell on the back, which is generally white with a pearly luster. Sea slugs are hermaphroditic creatures that live on the seafloor with naked bodies and an ovipositor groove connecting the male and female reproductive openings. Sea slugs are distributed in warm sea areas around the world and are also found in China's warm sea areas. It is the first animal discovered by scientists that can produce the plant pigment chlorophyll. In nature, the strong prey on the weak, and sea slugs with soft bodies are easily harmed. In order to protect itself, it wears changing "camouflage uniforms" so that it can adapt to any environment it crawls into.