Tips to clean and filter field crab fastest, help you have a bowl of sweet crab soup

Vietnamese people will tell you cleaning and filtering tips crab Fastest, cleanest.

Crab is a nutritious food to help cool down many women choose for hot summer days with cool crab soup or crab noodle soup.

However, the preliminary processing and filtering stages crab This is one of the steps that many people shy away from doing. Just cleaning and filtering tips crab This is the preliminary processing crab become easy and fast.

Tips for cleaning and filtering crab

– Raw crabs are washed, soaked in dilute salt water mixed with white wine for 10 minutes for drunken crabs, to help prevent theft during preliminary processing.

– Crab bought and washed many times with water. A trick to make crabs clean is that after washing, soak the crabs in dilute salt water mixed with 1 cup of white wine for 10 minutes. At that time, the crab was drunk, so it was easy to prepare it without worrying about being bitten

– Hold the four extra legs of the crab, tear the crab in half along the edge of the crab’s shell, keep the shell separate, remove the bib, lung and crab mouth to dry. After removing the crab’s lungs, it freezes immediately, then it will not be stolen if the crab mouth is torn off.

– Hold the crab shell with the dominant hand, the other hand hold the four small legs of the crab and then tear it in two decisively like when separating a sea crab.

– Do not hold the claw because the sharper the spike increases the risk of being stolen by the crab, holding this position back to the smallest leg of the crab is a safe position because its claws can never be reached.

– If you want to cook delicious crab without grit or smell, remember to remove the bibs, lungs and mouth of the crab when preliminary processing.

– Follow this order, when removing the lungs, the dead crab will not move anymore, then tearing the crab mouth will be very safe, not afraid of being clamped by the crab.

– Prick the bricks from the crab’s shell into a separate small bowl.

– Crushed / pureed crab body with 1 teaspoon salt.

– Dissolve the pounded crab part with 1.5 liters of clean water, let it settle and then decant the water, the rest is mixed with 0.5 liters of water and then filter out the residue.

– Mix the crushed crab with water, filter it many times until the water is clear, then remove the residue.

– No need to filter too much water, it will take time to boil, wait after picking out the crab meat, then add filtered water according to the serving.

– Pour the crab filtered water into the pot on medium heat, stir well to support the bottom of the pot. When the pot of water is smoking, leave the lid open for the crab meat to close, avoid boiling and take it out and keep it separate.

After that, you can cook vermicelli or crab soup according to your preference.

Wish you success with this quick cleaning and filtering tips for field crabs

*Food and pictures made by Fb Hoang Phuong Loan