During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a very hard dish that both the south and the north like to serve, do you know what it is? It is a crab, as the saying goes, "the autumn wind rises, the crab feet are itchy", at this time, it is the time to eat crabs, it is second only to moon cakes, and it is very popular among the people. In fact, there are still many seasonal foods at this time, such as grapefruit, kiwifruit, chestnuts and pomegranates, but if you want to talk about the most delicious things, it must be crabs.
Crabs, we can simply be divided into sea crabs and river crabs, like in the central region, or in the mountainous areas, the more eaten is hairy crabs, and the seaside eats more is pike crabs, because the hometown is northern Jiangxi, so the crabs mentioned here mostly refer to hairy crabs. At the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, 4 kinds of crabs are not served on the table, the taste is poor and there are many empty shells, and it costs money in vain, and it increases knowledge!
1. Yellow-shelled crabs
When you go to buy crabs, you will find a problem, some crabs are cyan and some are yellow, so which crab is better? At this time, it is necessary to remember that the yellow shell crab must not be bought, because the crab usually has to go through 22-24 times from the "big-eyed larvae" to the "adult crab", and each time the shell grows up, the color of the shell becomes a little bluer, that is, the crab will only become delicious after many molts, and the meat will be more tender.
When we choose to buy crabs, we have to choose cyan crabs, not yellow-shelled crabs, because they choose the wrong ones with a bad taste and no meat in them.
2. Light crabs
This is relatively speaking, why not bring the light crab to the table? This is because the heavier the crab food, the better, because if it is heavy, it means that the maturity is relatively high, which means that the crab has more meat and yellow, and it will naturally be more refreshing to eat.
If the crabs you buy are all the kind of empty shell crabs, when they are served on the table, they will naturally be talked about by the big guys, so if you don't want to spend money in vain, you have to remember to choose carefully, not randomly.
3. Crabs with less chelicerae hairs
When we buy crabs, we should also remember that not all kinds of crabs are suitable for eating, like crabs with less chelicerae fluff, don't buy them to eat, crabs have very few chelicerae fluffs, some don't even have them, most of them can be divided into 2 situations, the first is that the feed in the water is insufficient, and the crabs compete for food and cause the fluff to fall off, and the second reason is that the water quality is relatively poor, resulting in less fluff in the crabs.
No matter what the reason is, such crabs are not suitable for buying and eating, let alone as a hard dish for the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, because if the quality is too poor, the meat quality will naturally not be much better.
4. A dead crab
Here is a special point to mention, this dead crab, refers to the one that has died before cooking, especially the hairy crab, after it dies, it will produce harmful substances, at this time, no matter how cheap the crab is, but also remember not to buy it to eat, otherwise, it is easy to have food poisoning.
Studies have shown that when crabs die for more than 4 hours, their harmful substances will rise sharply, which will increase the probability of food poisoning.
How to make delicious crab?
After the fresh crab is bought, we need to treat it simply, wash it, and then steam it, which is the best way to preserve its original flavor.
For the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, the steamed crab should ensure that its legs do not turn yellow. It is recommended to steam the crab in warm water, add a little posture and ginger to the water, and then steam the crab on high heat for 8 minutes before eating.
Steaming crabs in warm water can reduce the time for crabs to struggle, thus preventing crabs from having short legs, and adding perilla or ginger to the water can make the steaming more fragrant and can also remove some of the coldness.
Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, if you like to eat crabs, you must know how to choose, followed by steaming crabs, you should use warm water to steam, and at the same time a little perilla and ginger, of course, you can also tie it up straight, so that it will be more beautiful, and there will be no broken leg yellowing.