How many minutes to boil crabs

Around August, it is the crab production season, and crabs are given as gifts during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although crabs are delicious, few people make them by themselves. Some people only know how to boil crabs or steam crabs. Little do people know that even a simple boiled crab requires adding a lot of seasonings to remove the fishy smell. This article introduces the detailed method of boiling crabs and various precautions during the cooking process. If you don’t know how, let’s take a look.

How to cook boiled crab

3 crabs, some shredded ginger, some salt, some cooking wine, some water

1. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot, add the shredded ginger and bring to a boil.

2. Put the crabs in after the water boils. When the water boils again, add appropriate amount of salt and cooking wine.

3. Cover and cook for about ten minutes, until the crabs are cooked.

4. Remove from the heat and eat with the sauce made from chopped ginger, garlic and vinegar.

Should I use cold or hot water to boil hairy crabs?

If you boil hairy crabs in cold water from the beginning, some of the crabs' freshness and nutrition will be lost during this period of time. Therefore, boil the water first and then cook the hairy crabs for a while to ensure the freshness and nutrition of the hairy crabs are not lost as much as possible.

How long to boil crabs?

Whether you boil the crabs or steam them, the time is almost the same, generally about 15 minutes, depending on the number and size of the crabs. But don't boil them for too long, otherwise the crab meat will become tough and it will not taste good.

How to eat crab most deliciously?

Is it better to steam or boil crabs?

Generally speaking, hairy crabs are best steamed, which can preserve their freshness to the greatest extent. Although boiling the crab is possible, the umami substances and soluble nutrients in the crab will enter the water, causing the umami taste to be lost and the nutrition to be greatly reduced.

The scientific method should be to place the whole crab with its belly facing up in the steamer and steam it until cooked. Steaming uses a higher temperature than boiling, cooks the crab faster, shortens the cooking time, and can kill microorganisms and parasites in the crab's body. At the same time, it can also reduce the chance of the crab's gastrointestinal tract and other organs contaminating the muscles, ensuring that the meat is clean and delicious. How to steam hairy crabs>>

How to eat crabs best?

Steamed imperial crab; three ways to eat emperor crab; deep-fried and marinated swimming crab; steamed butter crab in its original shell; fried bread crab with sugar; steamed hairy crab in a cage; red flower crab with soybean paste and shredded crab roe in a pot; fried tiger crab in typhoon shelter; Chaozhou frozen blue flower crab; red crab stewed with red winter melon; river crab boiled with rice wine; steamed crab with crab roe; meat crab with Sichuan pepper and chili; steamed coffee crab; Hele crab with minced garlic; steamed and salt-baked heavy-skin crab in a cage; fried abalone crab with ginger and scallion; tiger head crab with Sichuan pepper and chili; steamed and fried snow crab with ginger and scallion; fried spider crab in typhoon shelter; marinated flower crab; iron crab fried with spicy and ginger and scallion.

Tips:

Crabs are cold in nature, so people with weak spleen should try to eat less to avoid abdominal pain and diarrhea. When eating, you can dip them in ginger juice to remove the coldness. In addition, people with colds, fevers, stomach problems, and diarrhea should not eat crabs, otherwise their condition will worsen. Patients with high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and arteriosclerosis should try to eat less crab roe to avoid increasing cholesterol.