The custom of eating crab during the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history
As the saying goes, "the west wind rings crab feet itch"
It is said that every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival
Crab yellow full of cream fat
Let's have a beautiful "crab" encounter with food
Spicy crab
Steamed crab
Crab yellow packets
Crab porridge
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wow
Xiao Lu was hungry
So much food temptation
Do we still hold it?
Xiao Lu took everyone to see it together
The correct opening posture of the crab ~~
Crabs have a lot of high-quality protein, which will increase the body's immunity, have a good effect on the healing of wounds on the human body, and can also play a certain role in resisting infection, and can eat some crabs appropriately after injury. Because of the special physique of crabs, it also has a certain detoxification effect, which can excrete some toxins in the body.
How to pick crabs
Little Lu came to support the move
1. Look at the crab shell
The back of the shell is black-green with bright light, mostly thick and strong flesh; the back of the shell is yellow, most of which is thinner.
2. Look at the navel
The bulging navel is generally full of cream and fat; most of the concave ones are insufficient.
3. Look at the claws
All cray feet are covered with villi, and all cray feet are old and healthy; while cray feet without villi, they are weak and weak.
4. Look at the vitality
Turn the crab upside down, the abdomen is facing the sky, can be quickly flipped back with a claw foot, strong vitality, can be saved; can not be turned back, poor vitality, storage time can not be long.
5. Look at the male and female
Pick female crabs in the eighth and ninth months of the lunar calendar, and choose male crabs after September, because female crabs are mature at these two times, and the taste and nutrition are the best.
Pick the crabs to go home
How do we cook to be delicious?
In fact
There are many ways to eat crabs
The most classic is steaming
Steaming crab seems simple
But there are many hidden skills
1, after washing the live crab, open the fire to boil the water until the big roll, the shell is facing down, the crab is placed on the cage drawer to steam, this is to prevent the loss of the soup inside, to maintain freshness. You can also put a few slices of ginger or a few peppercorns inside to remove the peculiar and fishy smell. Some people also add a little beer to the water to refresh.
2: Adjust to medium heat, steam for 7-8 minutes, the crab turns red and cooks. If you are afraid of not enough heat, knock on the crab cover with your hand and make a very empty sound to turn off the fire.
3, after the crab is steamed and taken out, the crab shell is orange-yellow, open the crab lid, the crab is golden, and the crab is as white as jade.
While eating crab
Let's not forget its good partner
1. Crabs are salty and cold, and they are scavengers, so when eating, they must be dipped in ginger vinegar juice to dispel cold and sterilization. Especially people who are usually afraid of cold and prone to headaches, you can put more ginger when eating crabs.
2. Rice wine has always been the best partner of crabs. When eating crabs, drinking some white wine or rice wine can drive away the cold, and it can also disinfect and sterilize.
What are the contraindications to eating crabs
There are four parts of crab that cannot be eaten: crab cheeks, crab hearts, crab stomachs, and crab intestines
Crab gills: the respiratory organs of crabs, which should be removed first after opening the shell.
Crab heart: After opening the crab shell, you will see the hexagonal flake in the middle of the crab body, which is the crab heart, which is connected with the crab paste, and most people will think that this is part of the crab paste.
Crab stomach: hidden in the crab yellow, a triangular small packet, the excrement in the crab stomach has many bacteria and harmful substances.
Crab intestines: part of the hidden in the crab yellow, in the crab yellow there is a very obvious black line, that is, the crab intestine, it extends to the crab belly crab navel position, crab intestines and crab stomach, inside are crab excrement, inedible.
Except for these four parts of the crab can not be eaten
Xiao Lu reminds everyone
The following people are not suitable for crab tasting
The elderly and young children: the digestive system organs of the elderly are functionally weakened and their digestive capacity is poor; while the digestive organs of young children are not perfectly developed and their digestive capacity is poor, so it is not appropriate to eat crabs in large quantities.
People with allergies: Crab contains specific crab protein, which can cause symptoms of allergies in the eater, resulting in nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea; some can also cause urticaria or asthma. In addition, people with skin diseases such as dermatitis, eczema, and ringworm should also eat with caution, because eating crab may worsen the condition.
Gout patients: Crab is a high purine food, which can cause increased uric acid, which can aggravate the condition of gout patients.
Pregnant women: Pregnant women should eat less or no crab. Although crab is delicious and nutritious, it belongs to the cold food, pregnant women eat too much will hurt the spleen and stomach, affecting the absorption of nutrients by the fetus.
Cold and flu patients: the diet of people with cold and fever and diarrhea should be light, and the high-protein crab meat is not easy to digest and absorb, and it is easy to make the cold difficult to heal or aggravate the disease after eating.
People with spleen and stomach deficiency: Crabs are aquatic animals and belong to the "cold", because crabs have the effect of activating blood and dissolving stasis, so some people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat crabs more.
furthermore
Crabs cannot be eaten with tea or persimmons
Tea and persimmons in more tannic acid, will make the crab meat in the protein coagulation, is not conducive to digestion, coagulated substances can remain in the intestine for a long time, fermentation and decay, can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.