What stir-fried dishes and staple foods go well with crabs? Rhymes for eating crabs in autumn

Crabs are delicious and nutritious. They are usually eaten with fried dishes such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes, lotus root with red oil, and stir-fried meat with green peppers, as well as rice. But what's more interesting is that there is a jingle about eating crabs in autumn. Can you sing it? Babies!

Contents of this article

1. What stir-fried dishes and staple foods go well with crabs?

2. Rhymes about eating crabs in autumn

3. How to steam crabs

What stir-fried dishes and staple foods go with crabs?

Crab is a cold food, so it is suitable to be eaten with warm food to neutralize its coldness. Crab can usually be eaten with fried dishes such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes, lotus root with red oil, and stir-fried meat with green peppers, as well as rice. Adding some onion, ginger, garlic and vinegar to crab can warm the stomach and kill bacteria, and it can also enhance the flavor when eaten with rice wine.

Swimming crab (Portugal trituberculatus): commonly known as white crab or swimming crab, it is delicious and nutritious. It is an important economic crab for marine fishing and farming in my country.

Scylla pseudoburrowing: It is one of the important marine economic crabs in the southeast coast, mainly distributed in coastal waters of Hainan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Taiwan and Guangdong and Guangxi regions in my country. It has the characteristics of fast growth, large size and strong body and delicious meat.

Chinese mitten crab: Also known as river crab, hairy crab, clear water crab or hairy crab, it has the distinctive features of green back, white belly, golden claws and yellow hair. The notch between its inner frontal teeth is deep and there are four frontal tooth tips.

Rhymes about eating crabs in autumn

Some rhymes about eating crabs in autumn include: "One crab has one mouth, two eyes and eight legs. Two crabs have two mouths, four eyes and sixteen legs.", "The crab has eight claws and is so big with pointed ends. It squeezes its eyes and shrinks its neck, crawling across the sandy river. These two brothers should drink. Who should get the drink?" etc.

The shell of the hairy crab is green mud color, smooth and shiny, also known as the green shell crab. Its belly shell is generally white, white with green and shiny, giving people a jade-like beauty.

The claws of the Chinese hairy crab are golden yellow, firm and powerful, so it is also called the golden claw crab. Ordinary crabs often come into contact with mud, and their claws are generally gray-brown.

The hair on the legs of the Chinese hairy crab is long, yellow, and straight. The hair on its eight legs is 3-4 cm long, while the claws of the common crab are gray-brown and have shorter hair.

Steamed crab recipes and steps

When making steamed crabs, first clean the crabs with a brush, then marinate them with cooking wine for one hour, boil the water over high heat, and steam them in a pot for ten minutes. During the steaming process, you can prepare the sauce by mixing ginger, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, and sesame oil. After the crabs are steamed, simmer for two minutes before serving.

4 crabs, a bottle of cooking wine, a spoonful of minced ginger, a spoonful of minced garlic, two spoonfuls of soy sauce, two spoonfuls of light soy sauce, and one spoonful of sesame oil.

First, use a clamp to clamp the crab to avoid pinching your hands when brushing the body, and then use a brush to clean the limbs and abdomen.

After cleaning the crabs and tying them up again, pour cooking wine into a basin and marinate for about an hour to remove the fishy smell.

Boil water in a pot. When the water boils, put the marinated crabs belly up into the steamer and steam them over medium heat for 10 minutes.

While the crabs are steaming, you can prepare the dipping sauce. Add one spoon of minced ginger, one spoon of minced garlic, two spoons of soy sauce, two spoons of light soy sauce, and one spoon of sesame oil to a bowl and mix well.

After steaming the crabs, you can turn off the heat and simmer for two minutes before serving.