Steaming crabs need to be steamed for 20 minutes after the water boils. Put the crabs with clean water into the pot with water to steam, you need to boil the water on the martial arts fire and then wait for a twenty minutes like can be out of the pot, if it is the head of the larger crabs, you can extend the steaming time a little bit, to ensure that the parasitic eggs will be completely eliminated.

Before steaming crabs, use a small brush to clean the crab shells and legs, and put into the water to raise half a day, so that it can drain the belly of the dirt tips: before steaming can be used to pour the right amount of white wine in the live crabs slightly marinated in the flavor is better.

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Fine selection of crabs to "five look":

1, look at the crab shell. Where the back of the shell is black-green, with a bright light, are meat thick and strong; the back of the shell is yellow, most of the more thin and weak.

2, look at the navel. Navel convex out, a cream fat fat full; concave in, most of the fat body is not enough.

3, look at the chelipeds. Where the chelipeds on the fluffy tufts, are chelipeds old healthy; and chelipeds without fluffy, the body is soft.

4, see the vigor. The crab will turn around, abdomen to the sky, can quickly turn back with the stinging foot flick, strong vigor, can be saved; can not be turned back, poor vitality, can not be stored for a long time.

5, see male and female. Pick female crabs in the eighth and ninth months of the lunar calendar, and male crabs after the ninth month, because male and female crabs mature in the gonads at these two times, and have the best flavor and nutrition.

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