Fat and full hairy crabs are an indispensable food on many people's tables. Crabs are delicious and have high nutritional value. The common method is steaming, which is simple and easy, and the umami taste and nutrition are best preserved.
But there are actually many more delicious ways to eat hairy crabs, which makes people drool.
Brush the crab: after cleaning, brush the crab surface with a small brush.
Steamed crab:? Boil water in a steamer, put a few slices of ginger, and pour in cooking wine after the water boils. Put it on the steamer and put it on the hairy crabs. Hairy crabs should be steamed with their bellies up and covered with a piece of ginger.
Steam on high fire 15 minutes, then remove the rope ~
Juice adjustment: mince ginger, pour rice vinegar and add a little sugar to taste. Soy sauce, sesame oil and various seasonings can also be added.
So besides steaming, what other delicious ways do crabs have? Let's have a look.
As a traditional dish in Sichuan cuisine, crab shells are fried crispy, and every bite is spicy and delicious, which is appetizing.
Ingredients: yellow river mouth hairy crabs, pepper, ginger slices, dried peppers, pepper, anise cinnamon bean paste salt? Cooking wine? Sugar?
Exercise:
Wash the crab first, insert the chopsticks obliquely between the penultimate crab feet and fix the crab.
Second, open the crab cover and take out the crab cheeks and crab hearts.
Chop the crab into pieces, add some salt, cooking wine and pepper and marinate for ten minutes.
Dip some dry starch in the diced crab, heat the pot, drain the oil, and heat the oil to 60%.
Fourth, the crab is fried in the pot and drained.
5. Leave a little oil in the pot and add ginger and garlic slices to stir fry.
6. Add pepper, dried red pepper, star anise and cinnamon, and stir-fry red oil with bean paste.
7. Add the fried crab, season with salt, sugar and monosodium glutamate, pour a little sesame oil, sprinkle with coriander and break out of the pot.
If you want to eat the original flavor of crabs, it is still a traditional practice to steam or roast them with salt. Shake the salt off the crab and you can eat it with a big mouth, which will make people exclaim "This crab is so sweet"!
Ingredients: yellow river mouth hairy crabs, fragrant leaves, star anise, pepper, ginger and crude salt.
Exercise:
Stir-fry salt: pour the crude salt into the pot and stir-fry it over medium heat until it is hot. Be sure to choose coarse salt, because the hairy crabs should be covered with salt, so there should be more salt ~
Spices: Add 3 slices of ginger, 3 slices of fragrant leaves, 2 star anise and 20% pepper and stir-fry until the salt turns a little yellow.
Crab release: put aside the salt, add the hairy crabs, then cover the crabs with salt, and simmer for 1.5 minutes.
Crabs must be dried, otherwise they will get a lot of salt and will be very salty.
If it turns red, take it out. It is best to put them one by one, so that the salt can be completely covered!
Take off the rope: take off the rope of hairy crabs, with the abdomen facing up, and bake for 1 min. Remove the rope, so that the surface of crab shell is colored and heated more evenly.
Shake salt: shake off the salt on the surface of crab shell to prevent eating large pieces of salt.
The hairy crabs made in this way will have a seafood flavor of barbecued seafood by the sea ~ The meat tastes fresh and sweet, yes, it is sweet and very special ~
But eating hairy crabs also has many precautions.
Next, I will tell you a little knowledge about hairy crabs ~
Pay attention to moderation and eat at most one hairy crab a day.
Crab paste and crab roe have high cholesterol content, so healthy people should control their cholesterol intake, so they should be moderate. It is most suitable to eat at home according to the head. Eating alone is also good for your health, but eating too much is not enough.
You can't eat crabs for four.
Stomach: a "triangle bag" hidden in crab roe. When you open the crab shell, you can see that there are some crab roe on the shell, and the crab stomach is hidden in the crab roe. Open the crab roe with a spoon, gently suck the crab roe wrapped on it, and the triangle bag exposed is the crab stomach.
Cheeks: two rows of "little fans". Crab cheeks are the most obvious. After opening the crab shell, there are two rows of gray fan-shaped soft tissues on the crab. Crab gills are the respiratory system of crabs and should not be eaten.
Heart: the "hexagonal plate" under the black film. Chinese medicine often says that crabs are extremely cold and their hearts are the coldest. Remember to take it off when you eat crabs.
Intestine: black line from stomach to navel. Crab intestines also belong to the digestive system of crabs, so it is recommended not to eat them ~