Seafood delicacy cucumaria — to try or not

 





 

On the shelves of our supermarkets are unlikely to find something like this, but smart vendors and consultants decided that you messed up the title, offer to buy turmeric (Asian spice). But we're not looking for spice, a seafood delicacy. Residents of the Far East and Sakhalin call it simply – "sea cucumber", and the dishes from it in Japan considered a national treasure.

And it cucumaria – invertebrate marine animal of the family poturaeva, inhabiting relatively deep (50-100 m) in the Okhotsk, Bering and Japanese seas. Often the colors of these echinoderms color varies from brown to black and purple. The sea cucumber has a length of 30-40 cm, but if you get the animal out of the water, his body is reduced to 12-18 see

Fortunately, neither to catch nor to clean them is not necessary. Cucumaria sold in frozen and boiled-frozen, as well as independent preserves and canned mixes with other seafood.





Exotic Oriental cuisine does not use sea cucumber raw. Extraordinary taste of cucumaria you can enjoy in salads and appetizers, but that's a separate dish fully disclose the highlight of the taste. The appearance and smell of all the foods that contain the exotic ingredient, it is quite tolerable and does not cause disgust. Although the process of their preparation is quite lengthy and time consuming (unless of course You are not lucky enough to buy cooked frozen cucumaria), because heat treatment of frozen sea cucumber will take about 3-4 hours depending on the recipe.





A Japanese proverb says: "a good night's restful sleep extends life for 3 days, and one dish from cucumaria will add a month." About the beneficial properties of sea cucumber has long been known. Due to the high content of vitamins b and C, phosphorus, calcium, chlorine, iodine, and holothurin and hexosamines, the extract of cucumaria widely used in medicine to treat various diseases such as cardiovascular, gastro-intestinal diseases, diabetes, diseases of the liver, kidneys, brain, etc. in addition, the sea cucumber is very useful for connective tissues, male potency and nervous system. The latest word in the treatment of cancer was the use of cucumaria, as its systematic use inhibits the growth of malignant tumors.

Interesting is the fact that in the cells of glamourie no germs and viruses, this animal is sterile.

 

Source: mif-facts.com.ua