8 Sea Cucumber Cooking Recipes and its Health Benefits

Who would have thought this creature could be cooked and made into a dish? Sea cucumber is not just tasty but also has a lot of health benefits.

Echinoderms are a complex category of marine organisms that includes sea urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers. Their cucumber-shaped bodies contain tentacle-like tube feet for mobility and eating. It has Cucumber-like bodies which live in shallow to deep ocean settings worldwide. Sea cucumbers are benthic because they live on the seafloor.

Sea cucumber may be eaten raw, fried, or pickled, although it's most often added to recipes dry when it rehydrates and becomes slimy. Like tofu, sea cucumber has a neutral taste but may absorb the flavor of other foods and spices. Soups, stir-fries, and braised foods utilize often. It's often mixed with fish, meats, herbs, and Chinese foods like winter melon, cabbage, and mushrooms.

If you are curious about how sea cucumber can be cooked, here are eight recipes you can try and taste for yourself!

Sea Cucumber With Mushrooms

Preparation time: 80 minutes

Ingredients:

3 sea cucumbers, dried or ready-prepared
24 mushrooms, dried Chinese
4 Tbsp. oil
1 skinless chicken breast fillet, cut into 2 cm, ¾ inch cubes
1 egg white
4 Tbsp. cornflour (cornstarch)
1 Tbsp. light soy sauce
3 Tbsp. oyster sauce
3 tsp. sugar
2 spring onions

Braised Pork With Sea Cucumber

Preparation time: 65 minutes

Ingredients:

3 lb. pork butt, cut into large chunks
2 Tbsp. cooking oil
1 onion, small, peeled and finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
5 stalks of green onions, white part only
water
15 oz. bamboo shoots, strips in water, drained off water
10 eggs, quailed, hard-boiled
8 oz. sea cucumber, cut into medium size pieces
4 Tbsp. soy sauce
4 Tbsp. dark soy sauce
1/2 tsp. pepper
3 Tbsp. Shao xing wine
1 Tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tsp. Spice, Chinese five-, powder
15 grams rock sugar, white
cilantro leaves

Braised Abalone with Sea Cucumber

Preparation time: 70 minutes

Ingredients:

4 abalone, dried
2 sea cucumbers, dried
1 knob ginger, pounded
3 stalks scallion, roots removed
8 water, dried Japanese scallop, rinsed with, before using
4 oz. broccoli florets
corn starch
1 stewhen, skin removed, and chop into big pieces
1 lb. pork spare ribs, cut into riblets
4 oz. Chinese ham
5 qt. water

Braised Sea Cucumber With Fish Maw

Preparation time: 80 minutes

Ingredients:

200 grams pork, cut into small chunks, marinate with soy sauce
100 grams shiitake
100 grams dried fish, maw soaked 1 hour in the water, cut to 2-inch length
150 grams pork, tendon, soaked 1 hour in water
300 grams sea cucumber, cut into big wedges
50 grams dried shrimp, soaked till soft, drained
2 stalks of spring onions, cut into strips
3 Tbsp. oyster sauce
2 Tbsp. light soy sauce
1 tsp. dark soy sauce
1 tsp. sesame oil
1 tsp. salt
2 cups hot water

Pork with Sea Cucumber and mushroom stir-fry

Preparation time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

1 sea cucumber, soaked and cleaned- cut into bite-size
1 lb. pork loin, cut into thin strips
1 cup shitake mushroom
2 Tbsp. oyster sauce
1 Tbsp. dark soy sauce
1 Tbsp. Shaoxing wine
1 Tbsp. rock sugar
1 tsp. white pepper
1 stalk spring onion, finely chopped
2 cups hot water
2 Tbsp. canola oil
1 clove of garlic, finely chopped

Braised Sea Cucumbers with Chinese Vegetables

Preparation time: 75 minutes

Ingredients:

1 lb pre-soaked sea cucumber (found in Asian Markets)
1⁄2 tablespoon rice wine
1 green onion (spring onions cut in half)
4 slices ginger
1 tablespoon peanut oil
2 cups water
3 tablespoons peanut oil
6 green onions (spring onions, cut diagonally 1 in size)
6 slices ginger
6 Chinese black mushrooms, medium size (dry)
8 ounces bamboo shoots (Champion, halves & chunks)
1 teaspoon rice wine
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1⁄2 teaspoon sugar
3⁄ 4cup stock
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon water
1⁄2 teaspoon sesame oil

Braised Sea Cucumber and Chicken with Oyster Sauce

Preparation time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:

400g sea cucumber
600g chicken (chopped into pieces)
2 pairs of chicken feet
8 dried shiitake mushrooms
5 thin ginger slices

Seasoning:

1 tbsp Angel Brand Light Soy Sauce
1 tbsp Angel Brand Oyster Sauce
3/4 tsp sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

Treasure Sea Cucumber with Vegetables in Plum Sauce

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

200g Sea Cucumber, sliced
125g Nai Bai, sliced
15g White Shimeji Mushrooms, sliced
15g Brown Shimeji Mushrooms, sliced
15g Golden Oyster Mushrooms, sliced
25g Plum Sauce
25g Leek, sliced
25g Chicken Stock
Preserved Black Beans, rinsed with water
10g Ginger
10g Spring Onion
3g Garlic
1/2pcChilli
5g piece Salt
1⁄2 tbs Cooking Oil

Other than the recipes provided, Sea cucumbers also provide health benefits for you. Check this out:

Lower cancer risk

Chemicals in sea cucumbers may help combat cancer cells. According to studies, a single test tube containing triterpene diglycosides from Vietnamese sea cucumbers damaged breast, prostate, and skin cancer cells. According to another research, sea cucumber-derived triterpene suppresses the growth and spread of human liver cancer cells.

Antibacterial

In test tubes, black sea cucumber extract prevented the growth of E. coli. S. aureus. Typhi may cause illness. Sea cucumbers may be helpful against Candida albicans, an opportunistic yeast that may cause infections in immunocompromised people.

Heart and liver health

Animal research reveals sea cucumbers may benefit the heart and liver. High-blood-pressure animals administered white-bottomed sea cucumber extract had lower blood pressure than other rats.

A single dose of black sea cucumber extract reduced oxidative stress, liver damage, and improved liver and kidney function in rats with the hepatorenal disease.

Sexual health-promoting

Sea cucumber has a high protein and amino acid content, including arginine, threonine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, and tyrosine. These amino acids are needed for muscle protein synthesis and the production of androgens like testosterone.

Androgen helps build male reproductive organs and controls male fertility. Sea cucumbers H. A. fuscogilva mauritiana are valued as aphrodisiacs.

Healing wounds

Sea cucumber's fatty acids may help wound healing. Research on crude sea cucumber extracts' fatty acid content shows this. The researchers created extracts using ethanol, methanol, distilled water, and phosphate buffer saline. Phosphate buffer saline contained the most eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), a wound-healing polyunsaturated fatty acid.

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