Crabs can be steamed for about 15 minutes.

Steaming crabs can be steamed in about 15 minutes, but also need to be differentiated according to the size of the crab and the weather, if the day is cold, you need to wait for the water to open the pot and then time. Generally more than 4 two crabs can be steamed for about 15 minutes to steam, the day cold water is difficult to open the need to wait for the water to boil and continue to steam for 12 minutes can be steamed.

The 3 to 4 taels of crabs can be steamed for about 12 minutes, and if the water is cold and difficult to open, you need to wait for the water to boil and then continue to steam for 10 minutes to steam. 3 taels of crabs can be steamed for about 10 minutes, and if the water is cold and difficult to open, you need to wait for the water to boil and then continue to steam for 8 minutes to steam.

Steaming crabs usually requires cold water, but if they are frozen, they can be steamed in hot water. Due to the fresh crab meat is delicious and easy to cook, if the hot water in the pot is easy to destroy the meat of the crab, easy to lose too much water and lose nutrition and taste, so steaming crabs must be cold water in the pot to steam as appropriate.

Selection of crabs

First of all, buy crabs must choose live crabs, dead crabs, although the price is cheap, but eat up the taste and live crabs is a world of difference, not fresh and not fragrant, so we do not want to be cheap.

Secondly, look at the appearance and color, the back of the color of the green translucent, the abdomen of the color of the white, and the lines of deep and black, so that the pike crab is more fat, the deeper the lines of the more black, pike crab is also the more fat, but the entire abdomen is black can not be. The belly button of the pike crab is prominent and reddish or yellowish in color, so the crab yolk (paste) will be very full and delicious to eat!

Female crabs we eat is its crab yolk, male crabs eat is its crab paste, as the saying goes, nine female and ten male, that is to say, the lunar calendar before the eighth and ninth month is most suitable for eating female crabs. At this time, the female crab is more fat than the male crab, but in October we have to eat the male crab, because the male crab in October, the crab paste is the most full, the meat is also more delicious and full.