While crabs are available all year round, the most fertile and delicious time is in the golden autumn in September, October, when the chrysanthemum yellow crab fat, it is a good time to eat crabs. This time the crabs are all yellow more oil full, meat fat, a plate of crab can top a table dish, so by the majority of food favorite.

Crab in addition to delicious, and nutrition is also very rich, containing high protein and a variety of trace elements.

Eating crabs should pay attention to a fresh word, especially inside the full of crab yolk, nutritional taste are the best, a little waste is a pity. However, if you do not know how to steam, then it will be due to improper operation, resulting in crab yolk outflow, crab legs will be broken a pot, but also with a fishy flavor, a waste of this earthly delicacy.

Here to share with you, steamed crab tips, so you can also easily steamed delicious crab.

Before steaming crabs, you should do some preparatory work, first of all, to wash the crabs, the method is to let the crabs first in the water to spit a moment of bubbles, and then use a small toothbrush to the crab's abdomen, the crab's mouth, the crab's feet and pincers are all brushed clean.

Before steaming the clean crabs, you can insert a toothpick into the mouth of the crab and poke it a few times, so that the crabs will not move around, and will not steam the broken legs all over the place. Then put the crab belly up to the steamer or plate steam, so that the crab is not easy to flow out, and will not lose the delicious soup, afraid of fishy friends can cut a few slices of ginger in the crab belly with the steam, so you can go to the fishy fresh.

Some people like to steam crabs, while some families may cook them in a boiled way.

If you are steaming crabs, you should use cold water, after pouring cold water in the pot, put a spoonful of white wine first, so that you can remove the fishy flavor, so that the steamed crabs are more fragrant, the water of the steamed crabs must be enough, do not add water in the middle of the steam on the steam on the 15 to 20 minutes will be able to. If the hot water in the pot, in the case of thermal expansion and contraction will make the crab meat tight, so that the fishy flavor can not be sent out, the crab yolk and crab oil is also easy to flow out, and use cold water to steam slowly, with steam steaming out of the crab is more likely to lock the fresh flavor.

If you're used to cooking crabs, do you want to cook them in boiling water or cold water?

If you are used to cooking crabs, you need to use hot water to cook them, because if you use cold water to cook them at the beginning, you will lose the fresh flavor and nutrition of the crabs in the process of cooking, and then put the crabs into the cold water after it boils, and cook them for 15 to 20 minutes, then you can get out of the pot and eat the fresh crabs.

Cooking crabs will fall legs mainly because of the crab old tender reason, if it is too tender crab is easy to fall legs, there is also cooking if the fire, the crab will be violent struggle, then it will also lead to fall legs.

The crab must be eaten while it is still hot, not left too long, and it is important not to drink cold drinks, eat grapes or persimmons and other cold foods, which can easily lead to diarrhea. If you have a cold body, you can dip it in ginger vinegar sauce.

When buying crabs, be sure to choose live crabs, if it is a live crab when you touch its eyes with your fingers, the eyes of the crab will immediately shrink in, and it will also spit bubbles in the water. The color of the shell of a live crab is green, while the belly is white. When you weigh a crab of the same size in your hand, the heavier one will have more meat and fuller crab yolk, while the lighter one will have less meat and less crab yolk.

Or use your fingers to press the navel of the crab, if the navel hard solid meat, and vice versa navel soft, is less meat. There is also a shopping tip, in September to pick the round navel of the female crabs, and in October to pick the navel is a triangle of male crabs.