The time to steam green crabs depends on the amount of steamed green crabs, cooking methods and the size of the green crabs, specifically the following situations:

1, 10 minutes or so

Smaller green crabs a 200 grams or so, put into the pot generally need to steam for about 10 minutes can be cooked because of the shell of the green crabs is relatively crispy, so usually do not need to steam for a long time.

2, 15 minutes

Larger green crabs have about 300 grams, this size of green crabs need to be steamed after the water boils for 15 minutes, if a one-time steaming more green crabs, it is also suitable to extend to about 20 minutes.

3, 8 ~ 10 minutes

In addition to ordinary steamer steaming, you can also use the pressure cooker steaming, with the pressure cooker steaming length of 8 ~ 10 can be, but this time is the pressure cooker after the gas.

Tips for steaming green crabs

1, when steaming green crabs, you want to not leave the yellow and not lose the legs, before steaming them stunned, steamed belly up.

2, steamed green crab is recommended to be cold water on the pot steam, can not use hot water, because if it is hot water directly on the pot steam, green crab encountered high temperature, will lead to tightening of the crab meat, fishy taste can not come out, so fishy taste will be heavier, this and meat blanching is a reason.