Crab is the most common seafood in our life, the simplest way to eat is steamed, can keep the original flavor of the crab. Generally if you often eat outside, do it yourself will encounter a lot of trouble, the most typical is to grasp the time needed to steam the crabs, too long or too short obviously are not good. So, the crab to steam a few minutes to cook?

How long does it take to steam a crab? How long does it take to steam a whole crab?

When you make steamed crabs and other dishes, you usually put a whole live crab in a pot to steam. Wait for the steamer to boil and then put the crabs in, first steam on high heat for about 5 minutes, and then switch to low heat to continue to steam for a period of time, this time exactly how long to steam depends on the size of the crabs:

The crabs below 3 two to continue to steam for about 10 minutes, 3 ~ 4 two heavy to continue to steam for about 12 minutes, more than 4 two to continue to steam for about 15 minutes. Usually it's about 2 minutes longer to steam for every 1 tael increase in weight.

How long does it take to steam lump crab

When making dishes such as crab with scallion oil, you need to cut the crab into small pieces before steaming them in a pot. Diced crabs also need boiling water in the pot, also on high heat for 5 minutes, and then switch to low heat to steam for about 10 minutes.

In short, the total steaming time for both whole crabs and diced crabs should not be less than 15 minutes from the time the water is boiled into the pot, because it takes about 15 minutes to kill the parasites or disease-causing microorganisms completely, and this time will not cause the crab meat to become old.

Supplementary note: When steaming crabs or fish, you should wait for the steamer to boil before putting in the crabs or fish, so as to reduce the time the ingredients are heated, both to keep the meat tender and reduce the loss of nutrients.

Steamed crab practice steps

Steamed crab

Materials:

Main ingredient: crab, 1000 grams, 15 grams of yellow wine, 30 grams of ginger, 20 grams of soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate, a little each, 15 grams of sesame oil, 50 grams of balsamic vinegar.

Practice:

①Crab with clean water, put in a container;

②Ginger minced in a small bowl of wine, add boiled soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate (MSG), soy sauce, sesame oil and stir. Another small bowl, put the vinegar to be used;

③ the crab on the cage, steam with fire for 15-20 minutes, until the crab shell is bright red, when the crab meat is ripe, take out. Serve with oil seasoning and vinegar.