Start steaming with cold water, and steam for 15 - 20 minutes when the water boils. Spices: pepper, star anise, ginger, scallion, salt, vinegar.

Practice:

1, wash and chop the ginger;

2, ginger powder in a vessel pour balsamic vinegar and mix well to be used;

3, first put the river crab into light salt water, prompting it to spit out the dirt in the abdomen, and then put it into the water to wash 2 to 3 times, it is best to use a brush to wash, clean, but also to avoid being caught in the hand of the crab;

4, the steamer pot Add a little pepper in the water, star anise (to go to the earth fishy), open the pot count up to steam for about 15 minutes to take out. Steam when the crab to put the cage drawer steam, be sure to shell down, stomach up to avoid the inside of the soup out.

5, put into the plate dip ginger vinegar sauce to eat.

Tips:

1, steamed river crab must choose to live processed food, dead crab toxic, must not be eaten

2, steamed river crab time is not very precise, should be based on the size of the crab to decide, because the river crab parasites more, time rather than long two or three minutes, should not be enough

3, river crab is cold, edible river crab, be sure to with ginger vinegar. . Can not eat more, especially the spleen and stomach cold people can not eat more.

Nutritional value of crab:

Crab as a delicacy, since ancient times is highly favored by people. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty praised: "Fresh crabs and ginger vinegar, urge to alcohol, chewing yellow holding ao, slightly appreciate the flavor." Qing Dynasty Li Yu even said that the crab: "has created the color, aroma and taste of the three extremes, there is no other thing that can be on it." Therefore, it is known as "crabs on the seat of the hundred flavors of light". Crabs are rich in nutrients, containing a variety of vitamins, including vitamin A is higher than other terrestrial and aquatic animals, B2 is 5-6 times the meat, 6-10 times higher than the fish, 2-3 times higher than the eggs. B1 and phosphorus content than the general fish 6-10 times higher. Every 100 grams of edible part of the crab contains 17.5 grams of protein, 2.8 grams of fat, phosphorus 182 milligrams, calcium 126 milligrams, iron 2.8 milligrams. In addition to rich in calcium, crab shell also contains crab red pigment, crab yellow pigment.

Crab is not only a delicacy in food, as a medicinal also has a strange function. The herb gleanings" said: "its function is not only scattered, and can and blood also." The motherland medicine that the crab is cold and salty, crab meat has heat, blood knot, continue to break the injury, and nourish the meridians and yin and other functions; its shell can clear heat and detoxification, break the blockage of accumulation of pain.

Modern research has found that crab shells contain a substance - chitin, chitin can be extracted from a substance known as ACOS-6, which has a low-toxicity immune-activating properties, animal experiments have proved that the substance can inhibit the proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells.

Autumn, chrysanthemums and crabs are fat, which is the best time for people to taste crabs. Crabs are very nutritious, with protein content several times higher than that of pork and fish, and high levels of calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin A. But if eaten improperly, it may bring health damage.