Pike crabs should be cooked for 10-15 minutes to cook.

The time it takes to cook pike crabs varies depending on the size of the individual, the way it is handled, and other factors. Generally speaking, the time needed to cook pike crabs is 10-15 minutes. Pike crab is very easy to cook food, when cooking pike crab should be cooked in cold water is better. There are many ways to cook pike crab, you can stew it, steam it and blanch it.

When boiling pike crabs, the water in the pot should not be put too much, otherwise it will take too long to cook, and the texture of the crab meat will become old and the taste will be much worse. Buy back the pike crab to use soft hair to carefully brush the front and back of the crab clean, and then put into the pot to cook. Wait for the crab shells to turn red while cooking, and cook for another 10-15 minutes. Eat with vinegar and soy sauce.

Introduction to Pike Crab

Pike crab generally refers to the three-warp pike crab. Pike crabs are arthropods of the genus Pike in the family Pikeidae of the order Decapoda. The male crab back tea green, female crab purple. The cephalothorax is pike-shaped, slightly elevated, the surface has three significant wart-like elevations, the frontal part of the two sides of a pair of can rotate with the stalk of the compound eye; chelipeds are developed, the fourth pair of step foot knuckles flat such as paddles; abdominal flattening, male crabs abdominal triangular, female crabs are rounded, the abdominal surface are grayish-white.

Pike crabs are mainly found in the coastal waters of Korea and Japan. In China, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong Peninsula and other coastal waters are also distributed. Commonly found in the shallow sea, good at swimming and can dig sand. Usually inhabits the seabed of muddy and sandy substrate and broken shell substrate. It has a wide range of food habits, preferring animal carcasses, but also feeding on fish, shrimp, shellfish and algae. During the breeding season, they gather in groups in estuaries and shallow harbors to spawn. The number of eggs held, depending on the size of the individual female crabs and different. Generally, the number of eggs is 800,000-4.5 million.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Pike Crab