The Complete Guide to Cooking Hairy Crab: How Many Ways Do You Know?

Once again the Mid-Autumn Festival has arrived, and it is the best time to eat hairy crab. Many friends will buy hairy crab to give to relatives and friends as a Mid-Autumn gift. So here comes the question: how do you cook hairy crab so it tastes good? What cooking methods are there? Here we have compiled the complete guide to cooking hairy crab, hoping it can help you.

1. Steamed hairy crab recipe

Steamed hairy crab is a fairly common dish and a traditional famous dish of the Jiangnan region. The specific method is as follows:

1. Prepare the ingredients

Crabs, 1 stalk of scallion, 1 piece of ginger, soy sauce, white granulated sugar, small scallions, fragrant vinegar, sesame oil.

2. Carefully scrub the body and legs of the hairy crab clean with a brush.

3. Tie the crab legs and body together with straw rope for each crab, and place them in a steaming rack.

4. Add water to a steamer and place over high heat. After it boils, put in the steaming rack and steam the hairy crabs over water for about 15 minutes, until the crab shells turn red and the crab meat is thoroughly cooked. Take them out and arrange on a plate.

5. While steaming the crabs, pour light-colored soy sauce into a small pot, bring to a brief boil for 1 minute, then pour it into a small bowl containing white sugar, cooking wine, and sesame oil and mix well. Pour vinegar into another small bowl containing minced ginger and mix well.

6. When eating, serve with a soy sauce dish and a ginger vinegar dish, peeling the crab meat while dipping it in the soy sauce and ginger vinegar seasonings.

2. Spicy hairy crab recipe

1. First scrub the crabs clean, lift off the shell and remove the respiratory organs, then cut into four pieces. Cut scallions into sections, slice the ginger and garlic and set aside;

2. Coat the cut crabs with a thin layer of cornstarch and fry until golden brown, then set aside;

3. Add oil to the wok, and when it is 80% hot, add doubanjiang and stir-fry until fragrant. Add Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, scallions, ginger, and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant;

4. Pour in the crabs, add cooking wine and stir-fry for two to three minutes. Add red chili slices, then add salt, sugar, chicken essence, and dark soy sauce and continue stir-frying.

3. Home-style stir-fried crab recipe

1. Wash the crabs clean, steam them in a pot for 5 minutes, and take them out.

2. Open the crab shells, remove the lungs and gills, and split the crabs in half from the middle.

3. Cut scallions into sections and ginger into slices. In a bowl, add cooking wine, vinegar, sugar, light soy sauce, and a little salt and mix well, then set aside.

4. Add oil to the wok, and when it is 50% hot, add the scallions and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the crabs and stir-fry.

4. Ginger and scallion stir-fried swimming crab recipe

1. Clean the swimming crabs, remove the tail and crab gills, scrub clean with a bristle brush, split open from the middle of the crab belly, and then cut into 6 pieces; lightly crack the crab claws with the back of a knife; shred the ginger, cut the scallions into sections, and slice the garlic.

2. Take an appropriate amount of cornstarch and put it on a plate. Evenly coat both sides of the cut crab pieces with cornstarch (to make the crab meat tender and to lock in the crab meat); the claws and shells do not need to be coated with starch; add a little more oil to the wok, and after it heats up, first add the shredded ginger and garlic slices and briefly stir-fry until fragrant, then put all the swimming crab pieces into the wok together.

3. Stir-fry over high heat until the color turns red, then add a little more yellow wine, an appropriate amount of white sugar, and Maggi seasoning soy sauce (you can decide according to personal taste whether a little more salt is needed, since the soy sauce itself already contains salt) and stir-fry. You may add a little water to keep the ingredients moist. Before removing from the wok, sprinkle on the scallion sections and stir-fry twice more.

The above is the complete guide to cooking hairy crab that we have compiled for you. Which of the above do you know?