Steamed Hairy Crabs

Name: Steamed Hairy Crabs
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 10 Hairy crabs; 1 package Perilla Bun; a little ginger; Some Vinegar

by Teacher Kong teaches cooking

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

2

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and hairy crabs have been put on shelves in various places. The method of hairy crabs does not require deliberately complicated cooking. Of course, the simpler the method, the better. Steaming can keep the original flavor of the hairy crabs to the maximum. Suck the crab paste, eat the crab roe, and then have a bite of the slightly sweet crab meat, accompanied by a pot of small wine to taste slowly, the mouth is full of umami taste~

Lu Xun said: "The first person to eat crab is very impressed. It is not a warrior who dared to eat it!" And this warrior was talking about the people of Bacheng-Phantom.

There is a fairy tale about eating crabs. It is said that in ancient times, there was a kind of "clamping insects" in Yangcheng Lake, which looked extremely ferocious. Every night, they climbed ashore in groups to steal the rice. Some brave people came forward to arrest them, and they were caught with those powerful pliers. Afterwards, someone suggested to use fire to drive away. Unexpectedly, at the moment when everyone cheered and caught people and insects being scalded to death, they all smelled an unprecedented scent at the same time, and they peeled off the crab shell curiously. I opened it and took a bite boldly, the taste could not be more delicious!

From this moment on, the people of Yangcheng Lake are no longer afraid of trapping people and insects, and instead use it as a delicacy on the table. And Paz has become the first person to eat crabs in history. In order to commemorate the spirit of Ba Jie who dared to be the first in the world, he put his "Jie" above the "Chong". From this, "Crab" came from, Ba Jie was also named and prospered and became Kunshan, Suzhou. ——Bacheng.

Ingredients

10 Hairy Crabs
1 package Perilla Bun
a little Ginger
Some Vinegar

Steamed Hairy Crabs

1.

Soak the hairy crabs in clean water for 2 hours, wait for the crabs to remove the dirt by themselves, and then brush them with a toothbrush for later use.

2.

Add cold water to the steamer, add ginger slices, then pour 3 tablespoons of cooking wine with the crab belly facing up, and add the hairy crabs. (When steaming crabs, do not untie the rope that binds the crabs to prevent the crabs from crawling off their legs and turning yellow after being heated.)

3. Put the basil in the bag, cover and steam on medium-high heat for 15-20 minutes, then it will be out of the pot. (The length of steaming depends on the size of the hairy crabs. Perilla is a Chinese medicinal material that has the effect of fighting cold and removing fishy. If perilla is not available, ginger can be used instead.)

4. How to eat hairy crabs: Cut off the eight legs of hairy crabs, including two tongs. (The meat in it will automatically separate from the crab shell after it is cooled, and it is easy to be smashed out or even sucked out, so save it for the last to eat.)

5.

Use the tip of the last crab to poke out the crab legs.

6.
Remove the crab cover (that is, a small piece of cover on the belly button of the crab, male and female crabs have different shapes), and lift the crab cover.

7.
Eat the crab cover first, scoop out the middle part of the crab stomach with a small spoon, and gently suck the crab roe on the outside. Be careful not to suck the crab stomach that has a triangular cone shape in the middle, it should be discarded.

8.
After the crab eats the crab cover, it is the turn of the crab body. Use a spoon handle to pick out a hexagonal piece in the middle of the crab body, which is the core part of the crab, and discard it.

9.

Use scissors to cut off the excess crab legs, crab mouth and crab lungs.

10.
Use a small spoon to pour some vinegar on the crab, and then eat the crab paste on the crab body. The male crab eats the crab paste and the female crab eats the crab roe.

With a pot of small wine and taste slowly, the mouth is full of umami taste~

Tips:

TIPS

1 / Crabs are cold in nature. When you eat them with ginger vinegar sauce, you can fight off the cold. Don't eat too many crabs at a time, usually one male and one female.

2/ Fresh crabs can be stored in the refrigerator or frozen. Remember that dead crabs contain toxic substances, which are very harmful to the kidneys and cannot be eaten. Eating crabs pays attention to "nine females and ten males" (referring to eating female crabs in the ninth month of the lunar calendar and male crabs in the October of the lunar calendar). In the right season, eating the right crabs has the best taste.