1, buy the crab, first put in salt water to soak, let the crab spit out magazines, and then use a toothbrush to scrub the shell. Then rinse with water and set aside to drain. Put a steamer in a pot and add a good amount of cold water. Steaming the crabs in cold water will keep them moist and the legs will not fall off easily. Next, flip the pike crabs into the pot, belly side up, and drizzle each crab with an even spoonful of cooking wine.
2. After the wine has passed over the crabs, it flows into the water in the pot. Sprinkle each crab evenly with a little salt and a slice of ginger. The pike crabs are big and tied and can't move around, so the ginger slices won't fall off easily. Then cover the pot and turn on high heat to steam the crabs. Over the cooking wine, sprinkle salt, put ginger slices, cold water to stay cooking wine, this can be very good to get rid of the fishy flavor of the pike crab.
3, when steaming crabs, cut the ginger ginger, garlic cloves patted into garlic, and then cut some scallions. Put in a bowl, add the right amount of vinegar to make a dipping sauce, used to eat crab seasoning to increase the taste, as well as to remove the cold of the crab. Turn the crab over to steam, you can let the crab soup as much as possible to stay in the crab cover, both to maintain the fresh flavor and reduce the loss of nutrients.
4, general pike crabs steamed ten minutes, waiting for the pot of water to boil on it, a little larger to steam twelve to fifteen minutes or so. Crab should be steamed, but also can not steam for too long time, otherwise the meat is easy to become old and lose fresh flavor. Steamed pike crabs, taken out of the pot, placed on a plate, sprinkled with sexy green onions, you can dip the seasoning to eat. Freshly steamed pike crabs are an excellent delicacy with juicy and tender meat.