"Autumn wind sounds, crab feet itch".
Where is this itch is the crab foot, it is clearly the disturbing heart of the diners! After waiting for the season of the year, I finally looked forward to the hairy crab full of yellow and cream.
Crabs are delicious and never forget to eat.
There is also a person who is a crab lover like Li Yu, who calls himself a crab slave: crabs are fresh and fat, sweet and greasy, white like jade and yellow like gold, and the color and fragrance have been created to the extreme, and nothing can be on it.
There are countless ways to eat hairy crabs, but if you want to eat the soul, it must be incredibly delicious bald butter.
Take a bite and taste the essence of the whole crab, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is "fresh to the top of the head".
So, what is bald butter?
In fact, the bald here, pronounced (tei), belongs to the Suzhou dialect, which means "only" or "alone".
Butter, on the other hand, refers to the steaming of hairy crabs, only crab yellow and crab paste are taken for boiling, and not mixed with a trace of crab meat.
The finished product is fragrant and delicious, which can be described as a major realm of Chinese cuisine.
Even food documentaries have introduced this famous food in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which has attracted countless foodies to "lick the screen" and made bald butter famous for a while.
Because it's so delicious, some people describe it like this—
"The slightly hard female yellow in the bald butter, the cream of the mellow male, the combination of two swords, pointing directly to the human heart."
Even if it is a bowl of plain white rice, as long as it is mixed with smooth and bright bald butter, it will glow in an instant, and a bowl of rare delicacies will be born.
Each grain of rice is wrapped in golden butter, salty and sweet just right.
Take a bite full of flavor, the aftertaste is endless, and dry out two large bowls at once. With it, there is no appetite, no desire to eat, no existence.
Bald butter (crab yellow paste) contains 4 bags of crab vinegar
The mall price is ¥299 The reference price is ¥329
A crab, crab meat crab yellow *4 + soda biscuits *4
Quoted price:138 Reference price¥158
Scallion oil noodle set, 4 parts noodles + 4 parts sauce
The mall price is ¥78 The reference price is ¥99
Having said all that, if you ask me: Whose bald butter is called "the flavor of the world"?
That is naturally the most delicious - the harvest crab village bald butter, restoring the real delicious taste of hairy crab.
More than 30 female crab crab yellow can be boiled into a jar of bald butter, manually disassembled without additives, without a trace of crab meat and a little crab paste.
Open the jar and a fresh smell of crab comes to your nose.
Then, the golden butter accompanied by a large chunk of crab yellow came into view, and just looking at it made me swallow wildly.
Crab yellow is dense, crab oil mellow and fragrant.
In one bite, fragrant, fresh and salty are intertwined, oily but not greasy, and the teeth and cheeks are fragrant.
I have tasted what is drunk and dreaming of death, whether it is bibimbap or mixed noodles, it is a delicacy in the world.
No wonder it is so popular in the market, and people who have eaten it have given it praise:
- "Delicious", "Real Material", "Too Stunning", "The Next Rice Artifact Will Be Bought Back".
Bald butter is so delicious that it comes from real ingredients.
The crabs in Harvest Crab Village are not ordinary, using crabs that have won the grand prize of the National River Crab Competition.
Take this year, for example, the hairy crab of Yangcheng Lake, which won the gold award.
Yangcheng Lake hairy crab, known as "cream yellow meat fat", delicious. Zhang Taiyan's wife Tang Guoli once said: If it is not a crab in Yangcheng Lake, why should I live in Suzhou in life.
The reason why the hairy crab in Yangcheng Lake is famous is closely related to its environment and breeding:
Yangcheng Lake, as one of the lakes on the Migration Route of hairy crabs at the mouth of the Yangtze River, has good water quality, no pollution, and abundant aquatic grass.
Coupled with the large amount of plankton bait, the crab is naturally strong and fat.
In terms of selecting crab seedlings, we strictly follow the criteria of "green back, white belly, yellow hair, and golden claw".
On this basis, only lively, strong and powerful are selected.
In terms of breeding, it is even more expensive to use wild small fish, shellfish and corn to feed them in order to achieve nutritional balance.
The hairy crabs raised in this way have thin shells and thick flesh, crab yellow and plump, crab paste is fat, and with a hint of sweetness.
It is actually a "treasure of crabs".
It is worth mentioning that the hairy crabs of Yangcheng Lake used in the bald butter of the harvest crab village are all fresh, crab yellow and plump female crabs.
For every bottle of bald butter, you almost use up the crab yellow of more than 30 female crabs!
The trenches of the materials and ordinary bald butter are difficult to reach, and the taste is delicious.
Prepare the ingredients, and then you will start to make the tedious production.
As the developer of bald butter, Harvest Crab Village has a lot of experience in boiling this piece, and has always followed the ancient method of boiling.
Before and after, it is necessary to go through multiple processes such as cooking, disassembly, boiling, etc., and each step requires sufficient experience and patience.
◎ Steam
It's hard at first.
At the beginning, we need to wash the fresh hairy crabs and carefully remove the mud and dirt.
Without any seasoning, it is directly put into the bamboo cage to be steamed, and the crab shell turns from green to red to stimulate its umami taste.
◎Dismantle crabs
Then there's the dismantling of the crabs. First go to the navel to open the lid, remove the crab heart and crab intestines, and pick out the crab yellow without falling on the ground.
This step is more time-consuming and requires experienced teachers to come.
◎ Boiling
The next step is to boil the oil.
We specially use the free-range black pork in Dabie Mountain, add onion and ginger for refining, and then boil the farm mustard flower oil separately.
This step is used to remove fishy freshness in the later stage.
After boiling the oil, mix the two into a mixed oil according to a specific proportion, pour all the prepared crab yellow into the oil, and simmer slowly over low heat.
During this time, stir slightly with a spatula to prevent sticking to the pan.
After about 10 minutes, the fragrant bald butter is ready.
Crab yellow and crab oil blend together, the aroma drills straight into the nasal cavity, every bite is the essence, the beautiful soul is out of the blue, and the soul is addicted.
Many friends feedback that they just bought bald butter and don't know how to eat it?
The so-called "one crab presses a hundred vegetables", let me help you unlock the happy way to eat bald butter:
(1) Bald butter bibimbap
Bald butter bibimbap is a more classic way to eat.
Dig up a spoonful of bald butter, mix it with steaming rice, and let the golden crab yellow wrap all over the rice grains, which is soft and fragrant, with a slight frosted feeling.
(2) Mix the noodles with bald butter
If the noodles are covered with bald butter, they become golden crab flour noodles.
Add some vinegar to fishy, the aroma is strong to the end, every bite is the most delicious in the world, love love.
(3) Crab yellow tofu
Tender tofu, garnished with two spoonfuls of bald butter, a bowl of delicacies.
Melt in the mouth, as refreshing and tender as dessert, a bowl is simply not enough.
Today, we bring a strong flavored bald butter, a can of 200g.
If you can't eat it at once, you can also freeze it at -18 ° C, which can be refrigerated for one year under such conditions.
In addition to this bald butter, their family's noodles with crab and shallot oil are also very popular.
◎ A crab set:
Three or two female crabs with gold medals are selected, and the whole crab is dismantled by hand, and the crab yellow and crab meat of a whole crab are boiled with vegetable oil.
Add rain and dew to freshen and make a bottle of hand-peeled crab meat crab yellow.
Crab yellow and moist, crab meat delicate, fresh and sweet and soft taste, no additives, suitable for all ages.
One set consists of: 4 bottles of hand-peeled crab meat crab yellow + 4 packs of soda biscuits, spread crab yellow sauce on the biscuits, really crispy and fragrant, unbeatable.
There is foie gras caviar abroad, we have crab yellow sauce, it is really a little poor.
◎ Shallot oil noodle set.
The shallot oil noodles developed by Master Fu are also a must, basically restoring the smell of the streets of old Shanghai.
This bowl of shallot oil noodles is the place of the soul, that is, crab shell shallot oil.
The owner of Harvest Crab Village, Master Fu, the president of Shanghai Haipai Cuisine Culture Research Institute, on the basis of opening onion oil, innovated the use of crab shell onion oil, and added crab meat crab yellow, making hairy crab onion oil noodles.
The aroma is intense and the taste is delicious.
Master Fu told us that if you want to eat this hairy crab shallot oil noodles, there are four secrets -
Tip 1:
Keep the roots and whiskers when boiling the shallot oil, the shallots are sweet and fragrant, wash and simmer together.
Add the hairy crab shell to simmer slowly, the aroma is stimulated a little, and the onion oil at this time is considered to be boiled.
Tip 2:
Add the crab meat and crab yellow to further enhance the umami flavor and make an upgraded version of the shallot oil toppings.
Tip 3:
To mix the noodle sauce, you must choose the ancient soy sauce of four sets of brewing - Henghe Tai oil.
Tip Four: Japanese Handmade Ramen.
Its raw materials are only flour, salt and water, and no other additives.
After naturally drying in the sun, enter the constant temperature and humidity of the warehouse, alcoholization for a few months, you can get a mellow Japanese handmade ramen.
This kind of scallion oil noodles is not only delicious, but also convenient to make, it only takes 3 minutes.
The noodles are boiled in a pot for 2 minutes, then drizzled with scallion oil sauce and stirred well, which is a blessing for lazy people.
If you feel satisfied, you can add a poached egg, and the taste is richer.
Now place an order, a jar of bald butter (fragrant crab yellow paste) for 30, as long as 299 yuan (the original price of 329 yuan), but also give 4 bags of crab vinegar.
A crab set, including 4 cans of hand-peeled crab meat crab yellow + 4 packs of soda biscuits, is only 138 yuan (the original price is 158 yuan).
In addition, there is my personal favorite shallot oil noodle set, which contains 4 parts of noodles + 4 parts of crab sauce, which is only 78 yuan (the original price is 99 yuan), which is very cost-effective.
Life is not easy, only food and love can not be disappointed.
Such a concentrated whole hairy crab essence of bald butter, crab meat sauce and scallion oil noodles, miss can really wait another year, still hesitate?