Recipe

Ingredients for chicken and crab stew:

2-3 flower crabs, 1 bare chicken (about 500-600G), 500G winter melon, canned soup Or clear chicken soup, appropriate amount of salt, sugar, oil, 2 red peppers, 3-5 raw garlic

5-8 large slices of ginger, appropriate amount of soy sauce, coriander

Cooking steps:

1. Ask the vendor to kill the flower crabs, then go home, rinse and drain the water, use a knife to smash the crab legs, claws and other parts into pieces. It will be more delicious when stewing.

2. Rinse the chicken and chop it into pieces. Cut the raw garlic into white and green parts. Remove the seeds from the red pepper, rinse and cut into pieces. Soak the coriander in salt water for a while. Rinse clean and cut into pieces for later use. Peel the winter melon, rinse and cut into cubes. Set aside.

3. Remove the flower crab from the oil, drain the oil and set aside. Put the ginger slices and the white part of the garlic into the pot and stir-fry for a while. Then add the chicken, sprinkle with cooking wine and stir-fry for a while.

Add an appropriate amount of chicken soup and bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to low, pour in the winter melon, a little light soy sauce and a little sugar and simmer for 8-10 minutes.

4. Add flower crab, stir-fry and simmer for 3-5 minutes, then add red pepper and a little salt to taste and cook for a while.

5. Add garlic greens and coriander, stir-fry evenly and turn off the heat.

Selection of materials

Select hairy crabs with hard, green shells, intact limbs and vitality, ideally 4 to 6 per pound.

Preparation

1) First stir-fry the local chicken with ginger and green onion until fragrant, then fry the crab in oil until golden brown, add wine, ginger and tangerine peel to remove the fishy smell;

2) Then put the crab and chicken into a large casserole, add pork, red dates, polygonatum odorifera, wolfberry, and Codonopsis pilosula;

3) First cook over high heat, then cook over low heat for 2 to 3 hours After simmering over a slow fire, the chicken and crab meat merge with each other, the soup is mellow and fragrant, and the chicken is tender and refreshing. It's ready.

Crab meat is fresh and sweet, and has the effect of nourishing blood and nourishing the six internal organs.

The beauty of "Crab Claypot Chicken" is that you can eat two dishes in one dish, two delicacies in one: when you take a bite of the hot soup when it is just brought to the table, you will taste the freshness of the chicken. ; At the end, I have another bowl of soup, and what I taste is the delicious taste of crab.