The best time is 10-15 minutes.

Generally speaking, we use high heat to boil the water, adjust to medium heat to steam the sea crabs for 10-15 minutes, the sea crabs have been cooked, we can not continue to steam, because the steaming time is too long will be run yellow, and run yellow will seriously affect the taste and nutritional value of the sea crabs.

Steaming crabs need attention:

1, pay attention to the placement of crabs.

To put the crab into the pot, first of all, the crab's stomach must face up. This will not only make the crab meat heat more evenly, but also the crab yolk in the crab shell is not easy to flow out, and the fishy flavor of the crab meat is easy to remove.

How long is appropriate for steaming crabs.

2, cold water steaming crab.

When steaming crabs, you must steam them in cold water. If you use hot water to steam crabs, it will easily lead to incomplete steaming of crabs and affect their beauty. This is because boiling water will cause the crabs to fight fiercely and the crab's odor will not be released. If you steam your crabs in cold water, you can avoid this to ensure the integrity and freshness of your crabs.

3. Steaming crabs requires ginger slices.

The fresh flavor of crabs is the most memorable part, but if the crabs are not handled properly, they will have too strong fishy smell. However, removing the fishy odor from crabs is not difficult. As long as you steam the crabs with ginger slices or perilla leaves. The best dip for crabs is vinegar, preferably with a little ginger. Dip the crab meat gently to remove the fishy odor and make it fresh, making the crab meat fresher and sweeter.