Mid-autumn just met a large number of crabs on the market, fat crabs for our table to add a lot of fresh flavor. But eating crabs also have a lot of tricks, if not handled properly, not only affect the taste, and sometimes even cause food poisoning. I remember last year on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, my girlfriend because she ate the crab is not fresh, resulting in severe food poisoning, vomiting and diarrhea, and finally three days of infusion treatment before the symptoms slowly ease.

"Not to Mount Lushan failed to meet the eye, do not eat crabs failed to stomach". From Su Shi's poem is enough to see the freshness of the crab, it is indeed not eat crabs will fail the stomach and intestines. Crab contains a lot of high-quality protein and amino acids, these substances can increase the immunity of lymphocytes, can promote wound healing, but also anti-infection, so, after surgery or injury should eat more crab. In addition, eating more crabs can also prevent tumors, anti-tuberculosis, but also has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, these health effects should not be underestimated.

There are many ways to cook crabs, but the most original way to eat them is to steam them. But seemingly simple steamed crab, there are many learning flavor, many people are not steamed old, or steamed not cooked. Therefore, crab season, we will talk about the correct way to steam crabs.

Steamed crabs

Required ingredients: crab, ginger, vinegar, garlic

Operating points:

1, the morning to go to the seafood market to pick fresh live crabs, crabs should be preferred to the vitality of the strong, crawling fast, spitting more and sound live crabs, with a touch of the crab's legs, the crab can be quickly and easily turn over the crab is the fresh crabs. Dead crabs, although the price is much cheaper, steaming out of the flavor will also have a fermented flavor, bad taste, plus the reproduction of bacteria is extremely fast, I do not know how long it has been dead, after eating may have diarrhea.

2, will buy back the crab, . First of all, the crab body white silk and tie the crab skin band cut off, so that steaming out will not have the skin band flavor, and then use a toothbrush under the flow of water will be clean crab shell brush.

3, on the pot of steamed crab. Steamer pot add appropriate amount of cold water, not too much, to be away from the steam drawer 3 ~ 5cm distance, the crab belly up, back shell down placed in the steam drawer, in the crab on top of a piece of ginger slices to go fishy, so that the crab can be heated evenly, and the yolk does not flow out.

4, according to the size of the crab, the steamer on the gas to start timing, a little smaller steam 12 minutes can be, a little larger steam 15 minutes. Crab must be steamed before eating, but do not steam for too long, time, crab meat will become old and firewood. Finally, make a ginger vinegar sauce, cut the right amount of ginger, garlic, add vinegar into ginger vinegar sauce, crab meat dipped in ginger vinegar sauce to eat together, delicious and nutritious!

Secrets in the kitchen

1, steamed crabs, the crab's stomach face up, back shell face down placement, this can prevent the crab yolk out.

2, steaming crabs must not be steamed with hot water, must be cold water on the pot. Steaming crab with cold water, the domestic temperature slowly rise, the crab will not feel very hot at once, will not be excessive struggle and lead to the crab yolk outflow or break the legs, and steaming crab with cold water, can maintain the moisture of the crab, lock the fresh flavor of the crab.

So the crab is steamed across the water, using water vapor to cook the crab delicious!