Eel and Egg Roll

Eel and Egg Roll

　　Sichuan specialty—Eel and Egg Roll, made mainly with eel and eggs by pan-frying, is smooth, delicious, refreshing, suitable for all ages, highly nutritious, and has excellent therapeutic effects.

　　 Preparation Method:

　　 1. Use an oil cloth to thoroughly wipe the omelet pan, then pour one-third of the well-beaten eggs little by little into the pan and spread them evenly around. When the eggs are half-cooked, place the eel horizontally on top of the spread-out eggs and roll it up.

　　 2. Wipe the pan with the oil cloth again, move the rolled egg roll to the oiled area so that the unoiled parts also get coated. Then pour in half of the remaining eggs, use the previously rolled egg roll as the core, and roll it again following the same procedure. Similarly, roll it once more using the remaining one-third of the eggs in the same manner.

　　 3. While hot, shape the cooked egg roll on a bamboo mat, cut it into appropriate sizes, and arrange it on a plate.

　　 Specialty Benefits: Yellow eel is warm in nature, sweet in flavor, and enters the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians; it has the effects of tonifying the middle and benefiting qi, nourishing blood and consolidating collapse, warming yang and invigorating spleen, strengthening essence and stopping bleeding, nourishing liver and kidney, and dispelling wind and unblocking collaterals. Traditional medicine believes that yellow eel is a warming tonic suitable for treating internal hemorrhoid bleeding, qi deficiency prolapse of the anus, postpartum weakness, female overstrain, uterine prolapse, kidney-deficiency lower back pain, limb weakness, rheumatic paralysis, and facial paralysis.

　　 Egg white can moisten the lungs and soothe the throat, clear heat and detoxify, used for treating sore throat, red eyes, diarrhea, malaria, and burns; egg yolk mixed with an appropriate amount of breast milk has the effect of treating convulsions; egg yolk oil can treat infantile indigestion; externally applied egg yolk oil can treat infant eczema.