How to cook live crabs

Speaking of crabs, most people's eyes will light up. Crabs are a very popular seafood in people's daily lives. In autumn, crabs can be seen on the dining tables of almost every household. But crab is a seafood product, so the method of cooking crab is somewhat complicated. There are many ways to cook crabs. The following article will introduce several ways to cook live crabs.

Ingredients Crab 500g

Onion and ginger

Salt to taste

Methods/Steps

Clean the crabs. This is very important. When choosing, you should choose live crabs, which are delicious and healthy. After buying them, you can put them in clean water to clean them. By the way, add a small amount of sesame oil to help the crabs spit out the mud.

Cut ginger and green onion for later use

Put the onion, ginger and garlic into the pot, turn on the fire and cook the crabs for a while to remove the mud and impurities.

After the crabs have been boiled in hot water for the first time, take them out and turn them over and place them on the steamer. Put the ginger and garlic prepared just now on the crab. The main purpose of ginger and garlic is to remove the fishy smell of crab.

Steam for 10 minutes

The plump crab is ready.

Precautions

When choosing, you should choose live crabs, which are delicious and healthy. After buying them, you can wash them in clean water and add a small amount of sesame oil to help the crabs spit out the mud.

Crabs and ginger can remove fishy smells. Crabs are cool in nature, and ginger can neutralize the coldness, making them healthier.

How to deal with live crabs

Ingredients Recipe Calories: 475 (kcal) Main ingredient Crab 500g

Methods/Steps

There are no tied river crabs.

Place the crabs in clean water for 1 to 2 hours, let them defecate naturally, then change the water and brush both sides of the crabs with a toothbrush. To prevent being caught by a crab, please hold it this way.

After brushing the crabs clean, soak them in cooking wine or white wine for 20 minutes. After soaking, insert a toothpick into the crab's mouth and stir it a few times. Wait until the crabs are dead before putting them in the pot.

If you think the above method is too bloody and brutal, you can only find a rope to tie up the crab to ensure that it cannot move.

Another way, which is related to the cooking method, is to cut the crab in half directly. However, the crab roe and crab stomach will be scattered together. There are more toxins and wastes in the crab stomach, which can easily cause poisoning if people eat it.

Among the above three methods, tying the crabs with ropes and then steaming them alive is the best way. This way the meat is tender and nutritious. If you kill the crabs and then steam them, the crab meat will be a little loose and the taste will not be as good as steaming them alive. The last method also faces the risk of poisoning and causes more nutritional loss.

When steaming crabs, you must make sure that they are cooked thoroughly, because there are a large number of parasites in the crab's body. If they are not cooked thoroughly, they are prone to infection. The crab stomach and gills are not edible.

Precautions

Please note that dead crabs must not be eaten. After the crab dies, a large number of bacteria in the crab's body will multiply rapidly, so be careful to prevent poisoning after eating.