● When cooking Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, the rope that binds the hairy crabs cannot be untied, and the crab legs are not easy to fall off.
● When steaming hairy crabs, be sure to put the hairy crabs shell down and stomach up, so as not to lose the nutrients in the hairy crabs and keep them fresh.
● When steaming, the crab noodles are covered with perilla leaves, which can retain the umami flavor and remove the fishy smell.
● Because hairy crabs grow in mud, in order to prevent these pathogenic microorganisms from invading the human body, they must be steamed and cooked thoroughly when eating hairy crabs. According to the size of hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake, it is advisable to cook 10- 15 minutes after boiling, and the meat should be cooked but not too rotten.
● Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs should not be opened during cooking. Steam thoroughly at one time, otherwise it will affect the taste of crabs. Tip: In the steaming process, you can chop ginger into pieces and put it in vinegar. After steaming, you can dip it in vinegar.
Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are very popular food in the south. Now people's quality of life has been greatly improved. With the development of communication and logistics, anything you want can be shipped from all over the country. You are in the north and want to eat coconuts produced in Hainan, no problem. You are in Hainan and want to eat Hami melon in Xinjiang, no problem. You are in Changchun, and it is no problem to eat Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.
Now that the transportation is convenient, many things that I didn't dare to think about before can be gradually realized. It's no problem to eat Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs in Changchun, but it's not the food I'm familiar with. Do you really know how to eat? I'm from the northwest. I remember when I first arrived in the coastal city, I didn't like seafood the most. It's not that seafood is not delicious, but that I really don't know how to eat it. It's like eating western food for the first time, and I don't know how to use the tools on the table. The way to hold a knife and fork is very particular. It is human nature not to know strange things. In fact, many simple things are not mastered by everyone correctly.
I have been in the northeast for several years, and I also found that many people really don't know how to eat this kind of food from the south. I still want to popularize the eating method of hairy crabs in Changchun.
Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are the best time to eat hairy crabs every year. Many people will send their relatives and friends or cook a delicious meal by themselves to share this delicious food. The most nutritious cooking method of hairy crabs is steaming. Before it is too late, let me share with you how to eat steamed hairy crabs.
Materials: vinegar, shredded ginger, seasoning plate. Tools: scissors, spoons, toothpicks, etc. If you bought hairy crabs at Suzhou Crab House in Changchun, the crab eating tools and seasonings are free, and they are packaged and delivered. Stuttering crab crab at the gate is a meticulous thing. In addition to skilled craftsmanship, you need suitable tools unless you have good teeth.
Wash the ginger first, cut it into Jiang Mo and put it in a bowl. Then, pour the vinegar into a bowl and mix it with Jiang Mo. Because the taste of Jiang Mo and vinegar is heavy, you can also add a little sugar and mix it with vinegar and Jiang Mo properly, so the taste will suit you. Whether to eat hairy crabs depends on when to eat them. In September, the female crab is full, the female crab is the best in September, and the male crab is full in 10. After selecting crabs, start steaming. Some people ask whether steamed hairy crabs are steamed with hot water or cold water, and the answers are different. In my personal experience, it's better to say it's cool, because when you steam crabs with cold water, the crabs will slowly die with the increase of temperature, so the meat quality of crabs will gradually shrink, and the steamed crabs will be tender. If steamed with hot water, crabs will die in a short time, and the meat quality will shrink too fast, which will affect eating crabs.
The cooking time depends on the size of the fire and the size of the crab. Generally speaking, 15 minutes is enough. Don't worry after the cooked crab is taken out, it will be very hot. After a little cooling, first uncover the head cover of the crab, that is, the crab shell of the sluice crab, and break it from the bottom of the crab shell with your thumb and forefinger. Then, turn the crab over and break off the crab navel of the hairy crab, because the crab intestines in the crab navel are dirty and can't be eaten. Even if there is some yellow in the crab navel of the mother crab, it is not recommended to eat it if it is not handled properly, for fear of being polluted by the crab intestines.
Female crabs eat yellow, and male crabs eat yellow; After the crab cover is lifted, first take the crab stomach out of the crab cover, then take out the crab yolk or crab paste from the crab cover with a spoon and dip it in vinegar and shredded ginger. Of course, if you eat well, you can eat a layer of crab yellow or crab paste wrapped around the crab's stomach. Open the crab body with both hands, suck the crab yolk/crab paste on the cross section of the crab body, then grab the root of the crab leg with your fingers and tear off the crab body along the texture of the crab body, dip it in vinegar and ginger, or pick out the crab meat with a toothpick.
After eating crabs, you can eat crab legs, which mainly eat its thighs. You can break off the crab legs, bite off both ends, and suck skillfully, so that you can suck out the whole crab thigh. If you don't have enough to eat, you can cut off the crab leg shell once with scissors and pick out the crab leg meat. The most terrible crab is crab horn scissors, so leave it for the last one to eat. Crab scissors are broken into three sections by hand according to the joints. The biggest part has a crab scissors, which can be moved and forcibly broken, and then the crab shell is cut open with scissors to pick out the meat, and then the meat at other joints is picked out in turn.