If you boil it, lightly salted water is fine. If you steam it, you also need to season the soup well to make it tasty.

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Steamed hairy crabs

Raw materials:

2500 grams of freshwater crabs, 150 grams of sugar, 50 grams of green onion, 50 grams of ginger, 100 grams of vinegar, 100 grams of soy sauce, 20 grams of sesame oil.

Methods:

Tie the crab pincers and legs with a thin rope. Use chopped green onion, ginger, vinegar, sugar and mix for dipping, divided into ten small dishes. Steam the crab in a cage and take it out, untie it and put it on a plate.