Cua Lo cuisine: Growing crabs, crabs roasted with tamarind

Growing crabs – a delicious dish to please visitors to discover Cua Lo cuisine

Visitors to Nghe, after having fun with Cua Lo’s waves, will often choose to enjoy the famous crab dish of Cua Lo cuisine. This dish has an attractive aroma and is rich in protein. To create a dish that grows crabs, the processor must be very picky and meticulous. The crab meat is chopped, add a pound of pounded meat, a little pepper, dried onions, fish sauce, add a little wood ear and shiitake mushrooms, the taste will be more delicious.

To create the famous dish of Cua Lo cuisine, the processor must be very picky and meticulous. The crab meat is chopped, add a pound of pounded meat, a little pepper, dried onions, fish sauce, add a little wood ear and shiitake mushrooms, the taste will be more delicious.

These ingredients are mixed well and then applied to crab shells. Then put the crab plate in the steamer to cook. The processor must make sure that the crab meat is just cooked, then spread the egg yolk evenly over the cooked meat, then put it back in the steamer for a few minutes.

The white crab meat will be mixed with ground pork belly, wood ear – shiitake mushroom, green onion, pepper, fish sauce and some other spices. All these ingredients must be mixed with the crab, then steamed in large crab shells.

Each shell that grows crabs when ripe will be fried in oil. When fried in oil, the outside part of the crab will turn yellow, and the part that grows will be much firmer and richer. Just take a bite of the crab, can feel the sweetness of the crab and the richness of the accompanying flavors, extremely delicious and attractive.

When serving, people stick boiled crab legs into the shell like a live crab, but the seductive aroma of crab, meat, onions, and spices mixed together makes visitors remember eating once.

Enjoy the quintessence of Cua Lo cuisine with fried crab with tamarind

Along with crabs, roasted crab with tamarind is also an equally famous dish of Cua Lo cuisine. There are crabs in every sea, but Cua Lo crabs are the most popular because they are both large and firm, and when processed, they are extremely attractive. Therefore, visitors to Cua Lo at any time can enjoy delicious dishes from crabs, especially crabs with tamarind.

In order to cook delicious roasted crab with tamarind, the stage of choosing crabs is very important. The selected crabs must be large, strong, firm and fresh crabs that are freshly caught from the fishing boats that docked early in the morning. After choosing a delicious crab, the chef will clean, peel the shell and keep it separate. Particularly, the crab body will be cut in half and marinated with spices for about 5 minutes to infuse.

After that, the pre-cooked crabs are fried in a pan of hot oil until the crabs turn red, then take them out and drain. The tamarind used in the dish is usually dried tamarind, peeled and lightly squeezed in a bowl of boiling water to get tamarind juice and tamarind meat, add a little spice, pepper, lemongrass, and chili to the bowl of juice to make the juice more intense. momentum.

Next, put the crabs in a bowl with the garlic that has been sautéed, then add the tamarind juice and cook until the broth is almost dry, leaving only a little bit at the bottom of the pot. Finally, just put the crab on a plate and enjoy with salt, pepper, lemon and a bowl of sweet and sour dipping sauce.

Diners who come to Cua Lo tourism and once enjoy the fried crab with tamarind will never forget the mild sour taste of tamarind and the salty taste of the dipping sauce mixed with the typical delicious taste of the crabs. All have created a typical dish of Cua Lo beach in Nghe An here.

Above are two famous delicacies of Cua Lo cuisine that attract tourists. If you have the opportunity to visit the sea of ​​Nghe An this summer, do not forget to enjoy and feel the taste of the sea from two delicious dishes of Cua Lo cuisine.