The Mid-Autumn Festival is here, which not only means it’s time to eat mooncakes, but also means it’s time to eat crabs. Crabs have always been a delicacy eaten around the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, you can see a lot of seafood on the market around the Mid-Autumn Festival. So, as a kind of crab, red hair crab is the best way to cook it?
Nutritional value of red hair crab Red hair crab is rich in protein, trace elements and other nutrients, which has a good nourishing effect on the body. Studies have found that red hair crabs also have anti-tuberculosis effects, and eating red hair crabs is very beneficial to the recovery of tuberculosis. It is generally believed that freshwater crabs are better for medicinal purposes, while seawater crabs are only edible. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that crabs have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, replenishing bones and marrow, nourishing muscles and activating blood, dredging meridians, sharpening limbs and joints, relieving injuries, nourishing liver yin, and replenishing gastric juices. It has a certain therapeutic effect on diseases such as congestion, injury, jaundice, waist and leg pain, and rheumatoid arthritis. Red hair crab meat is cold in nature and salty in taste. It has the functions of relaxing muscles and replenishing qi, regulating stomach and digestion, unblocking meridians, dissipating heat, clearing away heat, and nourishing yin. It can treat bruises, tendon fractures, and allergic dermatitis. In addition, red hair crab has good curative effect on hypertension, arteriosclerosis, cerebral thrombosis, hyperlipidemia and various cancers.
How to cook red hair crabs 1. Place fresh live red hair crabs in tap water to shock them (freshly dead red hair crabs can also be eaten). Then use a brush to clean the gaps. 2. Add water to the steamer and bring to a boil. Slice the ginger, cut the middle part into shreds, and put the scraps into the pot. Soak the shredded ginger in vinegar to make ginger vinegar (you can add a little cold boiled water to dilute it to prevent the salty taste from covering up the freshness of the crab). 3. Place the red hair crab back down on the plate, pour a little cooking wine over the crab body, and steam over high heat for 20 minutes. You can also add some cooking wine to the water to help remove the fishy smell. 4. Turn off the heat, do not open the lid, and use the residual heat of the steam to steam for another 5 minutes. 5. Take it out of the pot and start eating.
How to eat red hair crabs 1. Rinse the red hair crabs with clean water. (Note: Red hair crabs are deep-sea products. Washing them with clean water can easily cause suffocation and death of the crabs. You must be sure to eat them. Rinse with clean water). 2. Place the crab upside down, because the paste and yellow of red hairy crab are very nutritious. If you put it upside down, it will flow out, which is very wasteful. Many Korean restaurants will have a dish , red crab roe bibimbap, absolutely on point. 3. When eating red hairy crabs, first remove the cover at the rear buttocks with your hands, and then separate the entire cover from the meat to prevent the paste and yellow from flowing out. Now you can start killing! Be careful when eating red hair crabs, because there are two sets of spines on the feet of red hair crabs, which can easily hurt your hands to protect them from predators. It's easy to avoid this by cutting the front and back of the leg with scissors!
Precautions for eating red hairy crab
Red hairy crab has high cholesterol and high purine. Gout patients should exercise self-control when eating it. People with colds, hepatitis, and cardiovascular diseases should not eat crab. .
China has a tradition of eating crabs around the Mid-Autumn Festival. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that crabs are cold in nature, so ginger root, perilla and other seasonings used to prepare crabs are often used.