Steaming crabs is about 15 minutes in cold water.

Steaming crabs generally requires cold water in a pot. But if it is frozen frozen crab can be hot water steaming, due to the fresh crab meat is delicious and easy to cook, if the hot water in the pot is easy to destroy the crab meat, easy to lose too much water and loss of nutrients and taste, so steaming crabs must be cold water in the pot steaming is preferred.

If you buy frozen crabs frozen crabs, in the absence of thawing, you can also recommend hot water under the pot steam, so that the crab can naturally faster steamed through, but in the steaming time need to be extended in the base time of about 5 minutes.

Tips for steaming crabs

1, first of all, give the crab a salt bath, soak the crab in salt water for half an hour, so that, you can spit out some of the dirt in the body of the crab, and so that the steamed crab meat is more tender and tastes fresher.

2, after soaking also have to rub a bath, with a used small toothbrush to the crab cover, the crab legs around are brushed clean, so eat more hygienic some.

3, on the pot also have to let the crab to a comfortable position, lying steam. Put the crab belly up, so steamed, crab belly full contact with the steam, can be sterilized, the crab cooked fast. In addition, this steamed out of the crab is not easy to drop claws, crab body integrity, color red and bright, so on the table to have appetite.

The above content reference? Baidu Encyclopedia-Crab