The sweetest and most mellow thing every autumn is this bite
In August, the pike crabs have not yet eaten enough, and they have begun to feed the fat hairy crabs again.
Hairy crab is a kind of river crab, river crab scientific name Chinese river crab, in fact, the arms are full of hair, eyes glancing at the domestic crab on both sides.
The pike crab is a sea crab, and the sea crab is divided into two types, one is the pike crab, which is famous for the shuttle that looks like a weaving cloth. In addition to stir-frying and steaming, barracuda crab also has a different flavor.
Another type of sea crab is the green crab, which is abundant in Fujian. Blue crabs grow fat and have a relatively high fat content, which is often used as a raw material for fried crabs. The typhoon shelter fried crab that we are familiar with is fried with green crab.
As for the hairy crab why do you have to call it by this name? There are many sayings, this editor feels that there is a saying that there is still a reasonable crab sex like light, where the crab catcher sets up a bamboo woven duàn in the harbor, put a lamp at night, crabs see the light, they climb up the bamboo stalk in pairs, that is, bamboo sluice, fishermen are caught one by one on the bamboo sluice, the crab that is caught is called "hairy crab", because it is also quite large, so it is called "hairy crab".
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As a delicacy, hairy crab has been favored by people since ancient times, and has long mastered the delicious way to eat hairy crab. For example, Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty praised: "Fresh crab and ginger vinegar, you use alcohol, chew yellow and hold ao, slightly appreciate the flavor." Li Yu of the Qing Dynasty even called the crab a crab: "The color, incense, and taste of the three are extreme, and nothing can be on it."
Therefore, it also has the reputation of "crab on the table is light".
▲This editor has already eaten hairy crabs
Hairy crabs are not only delicious and nutritious, not only containing a variety of vitamins, but also the protein in white crab meat can even reach 22% to 24%, and the fat is only 3 to 4%. People who lose weight can also eat a little more, and even people with "three highs" have no problem eating the crab meat of a crab.
At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that the effect of hairy crabs in nourishing muscles and invigorating blood, passing through meridians, replenishing bones and adding marrow has a certain therapeutic effect on diseases such as injury, congestion, waist and leg pain and rheumatoid arthritis.
Eat hairy crabs, but also pay attention to the "September full navel October tip". "September full navel" means that the fullest yellow of the female crab crab is the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the "october tip" means that the softest and creamier of the male crab cream is the lunar october. So eat female crabs in September and male crabs in October of the lunar calendar, so that you don't miss the most perfect cream yellow and firm and fat crab meat.
▲ The first female crab of this year, crab yellow has not yet been formed
The best way to eat hairy crab is steaming.
Crabs are cleaned, need to be steamed in cold water; and the crab belly should be facing upwards, so as to prevent the crab yellow crab oil from flowing out when steaming, you can also put ginger slices on the crab belly to fishy; steamed crab water can also add some ginger and cooking wine, can be very good to go fishy fresh, there are perilla can put some perilla, crab cold, perilla leaves can drive away the cold; after the water is boiled, steam for another 10-15 minutes, or according to their own preferences to control the time appropriately.
In many coastal areas, raw crabs are also used to make drunken crabs and choking crabs. Whether it is a sea crab or a hairy crab, raw crabs carry bacteria and parasites that can cause various physical discomforts such as acute gastroenteritis if they are not careful. And whether it is to take wine bubbles, or take salt water bubbles, can not play a bactericidal effect. So this practice is still not very recommended.
When it comes to where the hairy crab is the most famous, it is Yangcheng Lake, which is famous for its "blue back, white belly, golden claw, and yellow hair". But in fact, as long as the ecology and water quality are good, hairy crabs are not only delicious in Yangcheng Lake.
Such as Taihu Lake, Gucheng Lake, Hongze Lake, Changdang Lake, Gaoyou Lake, Dazhong Lake, Baidang Lake, Nanyi Lake, Wuhu, Xinghua, etc., these are the high-quality production areas of hairy crabs in the Yangtze River Delta.
There are also Junshan Lake hairy crabs in Jiangxi Jinxian, Liangzi Lake hairy crabs in Ezhou, Hubei, and Weishan Lake hairy crabs in Weishan County, Shandong, all of which are well-known in the local area.
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In the crab-eating menu of northerners, Panjin River crab must occupy a place. Yes, Panjin is rich not only in rice, but also in river crabs. Panjin river crab and hairy crab are the same species, but the growth environment is different, coupled with the difference in the name of the north and south, it becomes a "river crab and crab" in the north.
Panjin has a folk song since ancient times: "Sticks beat roe deer scoop fish, crabs crawl into the bed", which shows that the materials are abundant and the crab production is very large.
The growth characteristics of Panjin River crab are: seawater growth, fresh water growth. Panjin faces the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea, with a vast sea area and sufficient sea water, so that the river crab can "grow"; at the same time, the abundant fresh water resources and abundant aquatic grasses inland make the river crab "grow". Therefore, every autumn, the river crab climbs from the Panjin inland river lake to the sea to lay eggs, and then returns to Panjin in the late spring and early summer of the following year to enter the lake and grow into crabs.
Coupled with large areas of rice paddies and beach flats, Panjin River Crab also has several classifications
● Rice field river crab: the growth period is short, the individual is slightly smaller, artificial feeding feed, the river crab is thick and full
● Loop River Crab: Grown in the Loop and other waters, wild, slightly thin, yellow and creamy not full enough, but delicious taste
● Wetland River Crab: The most representative river crab in Panjin, the top of the crab, wetland growth, completely wild, pure "wandering crab". This kind of river crab is full of wild food, with a unique Bohai sea wind, Liaohe Water, saline and alkali land of fresh and delicious food, yellow and full of cream, crab fragrance is pure.
The first method of Panjin River crab is also steaming, so that you can best eat the delicious sweetness of crab meat. This is also the most direct judgment to distinguish whether the quality of hairy crabs is good or not.
Because only if the hairy crab lives in good water quality and the bait is reasonable and rich, the crab meat will be more delicious. Water source is the origin and foundation of crabs, and good water can produce good crabs.
Crabs are omnivorous, but prefer animal food, such as fish, shrimp, shellfish, silkworm pupae, earthworms, and even the carcasses of the same kind, etc., while plant feed is also essential.
Therefore, no matter where the hairy crab is, as long as it is of good quality, it is worth eating. After all, the hairy crab species is very tasty
As soon as hairy crabs are on the market, other autumn seasonal delicacies are much overshadowed.
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