To understand this problem, first let us know what is water crab, meat crab and cream crab. Water crab is an immature blue crab with less meat and more water in its shell, so it is called water crab. When the water crab is mature and full of meat, the male becomes a meat crab and the female becomes a cream crab.
Blue crab is one of the precious aquatic products in China. Its meat is delicious and unique, and its nutrition is extremely rich. Known as the delicious food in the banquet, it has high edible and medicinal value, especially the cream crab, which has the reputation of ginseng in the sea and is an advanced tonic. Blue crabs are mainly distributed in the coastal areas of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Zhejiang and other provinces in China, and are relatively rare in the north.
How to choose crabs
Choose good blue crabs and share some key points of choosing blue crabs.
First look at the crab shell. Looking at the jagged top of the crab shell in reverse light, if it is completely opaque, it means it is full.
Second, look at the bottom of the crab. The bottom of the blue crab is white or even transparent, usually with little meat; The dirty bottom is often full of meat.
Third, look at men and women. Pick the mother crab to eat crab roe. Choose male crabs and eat crab paste. Crab yolk and crab paste are also delicious and nutritious.
Fourth, weigh the weight. Pick up a blue crab and weigh it. Don't buy water crabs and water crabs that feel lighter. I want to buy blue crabs with heavy hands, and there is more crab meat.
Steamed blue crab
Material: 500g live blue crab.
Seasoning onion, ginger slices, Jiang Mo and garlic 10g, cooking wine 15g, soy sauce and vinegar/20g, and sugar 10g.
working methods
1. Stab the blue crab with a bamboo stick in the navel, peel off the crab shell, remove the sand sac and crab cheeks, and wash.
2. Put the washed blue crab into a dish, and add onion, ginger, garlic and cooking wine.
3. Put the blue crab in a steamer and steam for 10 minute, then take it out and remove the onion, ginger and garlic.
4. Add vinegar, sugar and Jiang Mo to the soy sauce and mix well. Eat with blue crabs.
* * Steamed blue crabs can keep the original flavor, and the crab meat is delicious and nutritious.
The correct way to eat crabs
Although the crab is delicious, eating it wrong can not only make it delicious, but also bring some trouble to the body.
1. Crabs should be served with ginger and yellow wine.
Crabs are cold, and some people will have diarrhea after eating them. Dipping crab meat in ginger vinegar juice can not only relieve boredom, but also warm the stomach. Besides ginger, you can also drink some yellow wine. Yellow rice wine is warm and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, warming stomach and dispelling cold.
Adding yellow wine and ginger to steamed crabs can not only remove the coldness of crabs, but also remove the fishy smell.
Don't drink too much when eating crabs.
Crab is a food with high purine content, and people with high uric acid can easily cause acute gout if they eat too much at one time. Alcohol can promote purine decomposition into uric acid and inhibit uric acid excretion. If you eat too much crabs and drink too much at the same time, it will aggravate uric acid deposition in the body and make gout attack more likely.
3. Don't eat too much
Although crabs are delicious, you can't eat too much at a time. If you eat a lot of crab meat, the demand for protease in the body will increase, which will increase the burden on the digestive system. Sudden intake of too much may cause indigestion.
4. Don't eat dead crabs.
Crab is a vigorous seafood, which mainly eats organic leftovers and animal carcasses. Once the crab dies, the bacteria in the body will multiply and decompose the crab meat, and some bacteria will also produce toxins. If people eat such crabs, it will cause food poisoning.