Crab steamed in cold water, usually steamed for about 15-20 minutes can be.

Crab is a kind of food is relatively easy to be steamed, generally cold water in the pot first open large fire steam for about 5 minutes, and then turn to medium-low fire steam for 10-15 minutes can be, for the general size of the crab, the large fire after steaming only need to turn to medium-small fire steam for 10 minutes or so can be, larger crabs time to increase some of the specific crab crab shells whether to turn red as a standard.

Special circumstances: Steaming crabs generally requires cold water. But if it is frozen frozen crab can be hot water steaming. This way the crabs can naturally steam through faster, but the steaming time needs to be extended by about 5 minutes on top of the base time.

Cleaning method of crabs

Soak the crabs for 1-2 hours to spit out the mud and sand; take the crabs up and scrub the backs and bellies of the crabs first; then scrub the pincers and feet; then open the abdominal cover to clean out the fecal matter; and finally rinse with water to clean it up.

The crab pincer force is relatively large, in order to facilitate the cleaning, you can first add some white wine to the crab, or use warm water to scald it, and then clean better.