Generally speaking, the time required to cook shrimp is related to the size of shrimp. Normal size prawns or river shrimps can be cooked for about seven or eight minutes. If you cook crayfish or prawns, you need to cook them for about ten to twenty minutes to taste them better. If you cook them for too long, it will affect the taste.

Shrimp can be cooked easily in about ten minutes. The common prawns in the market are transparent in color, which will gradually turn red after preheating. It is not recommended to cook for too long, which will affect their nutritional value. It is recommended that you continue to cook the shrimp for one or two minutes after it turns red, so as not to cook it too old and affect the taste.

Shrimp is not suitable for cooking for too long. If it is cooked for a long time, it will easily boil and lose the taste of elastic teeth. If it is frozen shrimp, you need to thaw the prawns at room temperature first, and then decide the cooking time according to the size after thawing. After the frozen shrimp is cooked, don't open the lid first, and it is best to stew for another 2 minutes.

Selection method of shrimp

1, fresh shrimp head and tail are complete, head and tail are closely connected with the body, and the shrimp body is quite stiff, with certain elasticity and curvature. However, the head and body, shell and meat of stale shrimp are loosely connected, and the head and tail are easy to fall off or separate, which can not maintain its original curvature.

2, fresh shrimp, the skin is clean, the meat is firm, and it feels dry by hand. If there is something sticky on the outside and sticky to the touch, it is definitely stale, indicating that it has gone bad, and it is not recommended for everyone to buy it.

3, fresh and full prawns, looks very bright, and the surface is very shiny, like this are generally good quality, very fresh prawns. Once the prawns are red or black as a whole, and the joint between the head and the body is about to break, and the surface is dull and looks dim, it means that the freshness of the prawns is worrying and it is not recommended to buy them.