As a high-grade food, hairy crabs really have no shortcomings except expensive. High nutritional value, rich in protein, amino acids, calcium, iron, selenium, zinc, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin B and so on. It is helpful to promote the repair and synthesis of human tissues and cells and improve immune function. Therefore, it is reasonable to be expensive. As for whether it is worth it or not, it depends on your own experience.

Stewed hairy crabs

Specific production steps

1, bought hairy crabs are usually bound in this way. Just a friendly reminder, don't open the rope, or it won't listen. To test whether the crab is alive, you can touch its eyes with your hands. If you can flexibly take it back, it must be fresh.

2. If you don't eat the crabs immediately, you can put them in an empty basin and add a small amount of water, which is less than half of the crabs. Don't soak all crabs in water, or they will die of lack of oxygen. This method cannot guarantee that crabs will live for a long time, so eat them while they are fresh.

3. Put the crab in water and brush it with a toothbrush, then rinse it with clear water, or soak it in light salt water 1 hour to let the crab spit out the dirty things in the body, but don't soak it for too long. After 3~4 hours, the crab will die of lack of oxygen.

4. There are perilla packets in the bought crabs, which can be steamed with crabs to remove fishy smell and drive away the cold.

5. Add a proper amount of water to the steamer. I added 1 tablespoon cooking wine to the water to remove the fishy smell. Put it on a steamer, cover it with ginger slices and perilla packets, both of which can remove fishy smell and drive away crab cold. Therefore, cooking wine, ginger slices and perilla can well remove the fishy smell and make your steamed crab fresh but not fishy.

6. Put the crab belly up on the steamer to prevent the crab roe from flowing out. Cover the pot, boil over high fire and steam for 5 minutes, then steam over medium fire 15 minutes. I steamed for more than 20 minutes. Because my crab is bigger, and the male crab is over 4.5. The steaming time can be adjusted according to the size of crabs. Generally 15 minutes is almost the same for crabs. For safety and health, you can also steam for a few more minutes.

7. After the crabs are steamed, you can cook them and eat the rest. To eat crabs, first remove the eight legs of the crabs, and then eat them. Then, open the upper and lower shells of the crab, and you can see the crab yellow. Both crab roe and crab meat can be eaten, but the heart, lungs and black membrane in crabs can't be eaten. After eating crabs, it is better to cut off the crab legs with scissors, which is more convenient to eat.