Geoduck Clam Market Price, Health Benefits and Effects, and How to Peel It

The biological name of the geoduck clam is the Pacific geoduck (Panopea generosa), also known as the emperor clam, goddess clam, elegant sea goddess clam, imperial clam, and tube clam. Artificial farming began in the Chinese market in 1996. So how much does the geoduck clam cost per jin on the market? What health benefits and effects does it have? How do you peel it? How do you cook it to taste good? According to the Guangdong seafood market, the price of geoduck clams ranges from over one hundred to several hundred yuan.

What health benefits and effects does the geoduck clam have?

Nutritional value:

1. Rich in protein, it helps maintain potassium-sodium balance; eliminates edema. Improves immunity. Lowers blood pressure, buffers anemia, and supports growth and development.

2. Other effects: coughing due to lung deficiency, wheezing due to kidney deficiency, and consumptive wheezing and coughing. Impotence due to kidney deficiency. This product is moistening in nature but not drying, tonifies the kidney and supports yang while also nourishing essence and blood, and has the effect of consolidating the foundation and nurturing the primordial qi.

Suitable groups:

Suitable for people with symptoms such as being underweight, low immunity, declining memory, anemia, and edema, as well as children with stunted growth and development. Suitable for patients with iron-deficiency anemia. Pregnant women, children, and nursing women should pay attention to iron supplementation.

Traditional Chinese medicine dietary therapy:

1. Improve immunity: Protein: it is the most important nutrient for maintaining immune function and is the main component of white blood cells and antibodies.

2. Strengthen yang and the lower back: promotes sexual function and supports sperm production and fertility. It strengthens essence and boosts qi, improves semen quality, and enhances sperm motility. It is suitable for treating impotence, lower back pain, frequent urination, and insufficiency of the five viscera qi caused by kidney yang deficiency. It is suitable for male sexual dysfunction, nocturnal emission, and impotence.

3. Diuresis and reducing swelling: it can remove toxins and excess water from the body, promote blood and water metabolism, and has diuretic and anti-edema effects. It contains diuretic components, can eliminate water-sodium retention in the body, and promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. It can treat general edema, difficult urination, and so on.

4. Tonify kidney deficiency: symptoms are “cold” in nature, including sore lower back, cold limbs, aversion to cold, and edema due to kidney yang deficiency.

How do you peel a geoduck clam?

1. Prepare ice cubes; first, ice water is needed for cooling, and second, ice is needed for serving the dish chilled;

2. Wash the geoduck clam clean and set boiling water aside;

3. Remove the geoduck clam from the shell; when removing it, remember to take off half the shell first, then the other half, and take it out whole;

4. Remove the internal organs. Then cut the siphon vertically down the middle.

5. Put the geoduck clam into boiling water for at most 10 seconds. After taking it out, begin peeling. Cut off the siphon, because the siphon part is anyway going to be prepared as sashimi, and the clam meat part is going to be prepared in superior broth. The siphon has a layer of thick yellow skin on the outside that needs to be removed;

6. After peeling, remember to immediately put the meat into ice water; only in this way can its crunchy texture be ensured.

How do you cook geoduck clam to taste good?

Sauce-blasted Geoduck Clam

Ingredients: geoduck clam, green and red peppers, XO sauce, cooking wine, salt, white pepper, ginger, scallions, minced garlic, soy sauce, white sugar

Method:

1. Wash the green and red peppers, remove the seeds, and cut into thick shreds.

2. Wash the geoduck clam clean, put it in the freezer for about 10 minutes, take it out, and slice it with a knife as thinly as possible (freezing it firm makes it easier to cut thinly). Add water, cooking wine, salt, and white pepper to a soup pot and bring to a rolling boil over high heat, then put the geoduck clam slices into the boiling water and blanch for 1 minute, remove, drain the water, and set aside.

3. Preheat a wok over medium heat. Pour in vegetable oil, heat until 70 percent hot, add the geoduck clam slices and pass through the oil for 1 minute, remove, and drain off the oil.

4. Leave 3 tablespoons of oil in the original wok, add the shredded peppers, stir-fry for 2 minutes, and scoop out. Using the oil left in the wok, heat again, then add ginger, scallions, and minced garlic, and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add XO sauce and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add the oil-passed geoduck clam slices, soy sauce, and white sugar, and stir-fry evenly. Add the green peppers and red peppers, stir-fry evenly, and immediately scoop out and serve.

Geoduck Clam in Seasoned Sauce

Ingredients: 150 grams geoduck clam, 50 grams baby cucumber

Auxiliary ingredients: 100 grams homemade seasoned sauce

Method:

1. Peel the geoduck clam, wash it clean, slice it into thin slices, put them into ice water, and refrigerate in the fridge for 10 minutes.

2. Use the baby cucumber as the base, place the chilled geoduck clam on top, pour the homemade seasoned sauce around the edges, then plate and garnish.

Homemade seasoned sauce:

Put 200 grams Knorr Seasoning Sauce, 100 grams seafood soy sauce, 50 grams each Knorr Spicy Seasoning Sauce, green pepper, and white sugar, 100 grams aged vinegar, 10 grams Knorr Chicken Essence, 100 grams purified water, 30 grams each Knorr powder, scallion sections, and cilantro stems, and 20 grams mustard paste together and mix well.