Home-style recipe for boiled bullfrog, tender and flavorful, great with rice
Bullfrog is a food that is high in protein, low in fat, low in cholesterol and delicious, with the effects of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, calming the heart and soothing the mind, and tonifying qi and generating essence. People with poor digestion or excess stomach acid, as well as those with a weak constitution, can use it to nourish the body. There are very many ways to prepare it. Let us take a look below at the home-style recipe for boiled bullfrog!
Ingredients for boiled bullfrog
Bullfrog 350 g, lettuce (head lettuce) 150 g, scallion 10 g, garlic (white skin) 10 g, ginger 5 g, chili pepper 5 g, cooking wine 15 g, salt 4 g, soy sauce 15 g, chicken essence 2 g.
Method for boiled bullfrog
1. First wash and clean the bullfrog and chop it up, then mix the bullfrog well with spicy powder and let it marinate for 15 minutes.
2. Put the bullfrog into a hot oil wok and stir-fry until it turns jade white, then remove and set aside. Continue adding oil, then add scallion, ginger, garlic, pointed red chili peppers and spicy powder and stir-fry until fragrant.
3. Add a large bowl of water, put in the stir-fried bullfrog, then add cooking wine, salt and soy sauce in turn. When it is almost done, add the lettuce leaves, add a little chicken essence and it is ready to serve.
Benefits of boiled bullfrog
1. Bullfrog has the effect of nourishing and detoxifying. Patients with poor digestion or excess stomach acid are best suited to eating frog meat, and people with a weak constitution or who are ill can use it to build up the body. Its nutritional value is extremely high.
2. Bullfrog can promote vigorous qi and blood in the human body, full energy, nourish yin and strengthen yang, and has the effect of calming the heart, soothing the mind and tonifying qi.
3. Bullfrog also has the effect of nourishing, detoxifying and treating certain diseases. In medicine it is believed that eating frog meat can stimulate the appetite when a person is on a restricted diet, and patients with a weak stomach or excess stomach acid are best suited to eating frog meat. In addition, in medicine it is often used to treat cardiac or renal edema, sore and ulcerated throat or mild cases of diphtheria, heat sores, scabies, edema and so on.
4. The internal organs of the bullfrog and its trimmings contain abundant protein, which upon hydrolysis generates complex amino acids, among which arginine and lysine are relatively high in content, making it a good food additive and tonic.