How to clean dried starfish more cleanly

When cooking dried starfish, you must soak and clean them in the early stages. Generally, you can wash them after they are softened. At the same time, you should also pay attention to cleaning out all the edges and corners, leaving only the skin so that there will be no strange smell when using it to make soup.

1. How to wash: First, soak it until it is soft and then wash it, take out everything in the edges and corners, leaving only the outer skin. This way the soup won’t have a strange taste. You can rinse it under the tap and pick out the dirt with chopsticks. Second, it is recommended to soak it for a day after washing it.

2. Starfish and lean meat soup

Ingredients: 1 starfish, 2 taels of lean pork.

Preparation method: Stew starfish with lean pork, and only eat the pork and soup, once a day.

Efficacy: This prescription is particularly suitable for breast lumps that have not yet broken the skin, and may have a dissipating effect on benign tumors.

3. Starfish, sea coconut, carrot and lean meat soup

Ingredients: 1 dried starfish, about 50 grams of sea coconut, 5-6 slices of ginger (because starfish is a seafood, it has a strong fishy smell, more ginger slices will help remove the fishy smell), wolfberry, carrot, 500 grams of lean meat

Method: Rinse the starfish, clean the sea coconut, cut the lean meat into pieces and blanch it, put all the ingredients into a pot, add water, boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour, add salt to taste. This soup can relieve asthma and cough, and has a certain effect on coughs caused by chronic pharyngitis.