Spicy Swimming Crab Recipe

Spicy swimming crab is a spicy seafood dish. The main ingredient is swimming crab. It not only tastes spicy and fresh, but also has rich nutritional value. The method is also very simple. First, you need to prepare the swimming crab. Put the live swimming crab into the water to make the swimming crab spit out impurities and sand. After processing the swimming crab, marinate it, put it in the pot for stir-fry, and add chili to season it.

How to cook spicy swimming crab?

Materials

Swimming crab 500g

Green and red peppers

Three stalks of celery

Small pepper

1 teaspoon Lao Gan Ma

1 tsp soy sauce

1.5 tsp cooking wine

Dried chili pepper

Sichuan pepper

Two star anise

Two bay leaves

Onion, ginger and garlic

Salad oil

Salt to taste

Steps

1. Select fresh swimming crabs and put them in water for a while to let them spit out impurities.

2. Open the back cover, remove the crab gills, crab intestines, crab stomach and other inedible parts, and remove the crab claws. The small claws can be left on.

3. Marinate the crab with half a teaspoon of cooking wine and a small amount of salt for half an hour.

4. Prepare the auxiliary ingredients while the crab is marinated. Dice the green and red peppers, slice the garlic and ginger, dice the onions and chili peppers, and cut the celery into sections.

5. Coat the marinated crab with dry starch

6. Heat the oil and fry the crab for a while. Set aside.

7. Heat the pan, add oil, add dried chili peppers and peppercorns, stir-fry until fragrant, add onions, ginger, garlic, bay leaves, star anise, and Lao Gan Ma, stir-fry until fragrant and red oil comes out

8. Add crab shells and crab claws and stir-fry, add a small amount of soy sauce and salt to enhance the flavor

9. Add green and red peppers, chili peppers, and celery and stir-fry. If the bottom of the pot is too dry, you can add a small amount of water as appropriate.

10. Finally, add the fried crab and stir-fry for a while

11. The spicy swimming crab is ready to be cooked. It is spicy and delicious, which will increase your appetite.

Nutritional Value

The meat of swimming crab is tender and white, rich in protein, fat and various minerals. Swimming crabs are strongest during the winter migrating season, generally weighing around 250 grams and up to 500 grams. The female crab is fully covered with red cream and tastes excellent. Swimming crabs can be eaten fresh, steamed, fried, or stir-fried, or cut in half and stewed with bean paste, or stir-fried with rice cakes, pickles, or tofu. They are a common dish on the tables of residents along the coastal areas. It can also be pickled, that is, fresh swimming crabs are soaked in brine and can be eaten after a few days, commonly known as "fresh wind grabs crabs". In the past, fishermen often selected live crabs with full roe because of the high yield of swimming crabs, picked out the roe and put it into a bowl, and solidified it in the wind and sun to make "crab roe cakes". The flavor is particularly good, but the yield is small, and it is difficult for ordinary people to taste it.