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Steamed Sea Crab

Steamed sea crab offers tender, white, and succulent meat. The claws and legs can be shaped into small decorative figures.

25 min
Easy
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Steamed Sea Crab

Story

Steaming the crab with ginger, scallion, and aromatics brings out its natural sweetness while keeping the meat moist and delicate.

Ingredients

Sea crab to taste
Ginger chunks to taste
Sichuan peppercorns to taste
Cooking wine to taste
Green onion sections to taste
Star anise to taste

Instructions

1

Step 1

Pour clear water into the pot, add ginger chunks, scallion sections, Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, and cooking wine. Arrange the crabs on the steamer rack.

2

Step 2

After the water boils, the crabs will be ready in fifteen minutes.

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Step 3

Make a small swallow out of the crab claws and crab legs.