Salt-baked blue crab
Salt-baked mud crab recipe with pictures, 6 steps in total. Two crabs, scrubbed clean and made sure to dry thoroughly. Baking wet crabs will cause them to absorb too much salt, making the meat too salty.
Method
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Step 1
Two crabs, scrubbed clean and made sure to dry thoroughly. Baking them in water will cause them to absorb too much salt, making the meat too salty.
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Step 2
Coarse sea salt as needed (sea salt is high in calories, and it costs 1.5 yuan per pound here).
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Step 3
Add sea salt and heat it up (don't worry if you hear a sizzling sound; that's the sea salt evaporating moisture, and the pot won't be damaged).
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Step 4
Put the crab in
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Step 5
Cover the crab with some salt, bake for three minutes, then flip it over.
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Step 6
Bake for another three minutes, then flip it over. Bake for another five minutes, and it'll be done.
Nutrition
Nutrition has not been calculated for this recipe.