How to eat crabs? What is the best way to eat crabs?

The crab season is here. How to cook the big, tender and delicious crabs on the table to make them taste the best? What is the best and most nutritious way to eat crabs? What should you pay attention to when eating crabs? Let's take a look~

What to eat with crabs

When eating crabs, you should also pay attention to eating them with other foods to reduce the toxicity of crabs, such as eating them with ginger or warm wine. However, for breastfeeding mothers, alcohol is not allowed, and eating too much crabs is not good for the baby, so it is better to eat less crabs.

1. Eat crabs with ginger: People who are afraid of cold and prone to headaches can add more ginger when eating crabs. In terms of taste, crabs and ginger vinegar are a good match, and ginger is hot and spicy, which can dispel cold and warm the stomach. The ginger juice in ginger also has the effects of sterilization, deodorization and detoxification. If northerners are not used to eating ginger, adding some garlic can also have the same effect.

2. Eat crabs with warm wine: Drinking some white wine or yellow wine when eating crabs can relieve the cold. In addition, drinking some wine when eating sea crabs can also have the effect of disinfection and sterilization. But it should be noted that when eating crabs, you must not drink iced drinks, which will aggravate the cold stomach.

What can't be eaten with crabs?

Do not eat crabs with sweet potatoes, pumpkins, honey, oranges, pears, pomegranates, tomatoes, cantaloupes, peanuts, snails, celery, persimmons, rabbit meat, nepeta, and eggplants, as there is a risk of food poisoning. Do not drink cold drinks when eating crabs, as it will cause diarrhea.

1. Do not eat persimmons after eating crabs: From the perspective of food medicinal properties, persimmons and crabs are both cold in nature. Eating them together will damage the spleen and stomach, and people with weak constitutions should especially avoid them. Persimmons contain tannic acid, and crabs are rich in protein. When the two meet, they coagulate to form tannic acid protein, which is difficult to digest and hinders the digestive function, causing food to remain in the intestines and ferment, resulting in food poisoning symptoms such as vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

2. Do not drink tea after eating crabs: When eating crabs, the best drink is warm rice wine. It is best not to drink tea before or after eating crabs. Because crab legs and crab gills inevitably carry some bacteria, drinking wine and vinegar can kill them. Our gastric juice also has a certain bactericidal ability, but after drinking tea, the gastric juice will be diluted, and the bactericidal effect will be greatly reduced; and tea, like persimmons, also contains tannic acid, which can cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Therefore, do not drink tea when eating crabs or within one hour after eating crabs.

3. Do not eat peanuts after eating crabs: Peanuts are sweet and flat in nature, and contain 45% fat. Greasy foods can easily cause diarrhea when they come into contact with cold and sharp foods. Therefore, crabs should not be eaten with peanuts, especially those with weak stomachs.

4. Do not drink cold drinks after eating crabs: cold drinks such as ice water and ice cream are cold and can lower the temperature of the stomach and intestines. Eating them with crabs will cause diarrhea. Therefore, you cannot eat them with crabs, and you cannot drink cold drinks immediately after eating crabs.

5. Do not eat loach after eating crab: According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, "loach is sweet and mild, non-toxic, can warm the heart, cure cough and diuresis, and prevent impotence." It can be seen that its nature is warm and nourishing. Crab is cold and beneficial, and its function is opposite, so the two should not be eaten together.

6. Do not eat mutton after eating crabs: Mutton is sweet and hot in nature, while crabs are cold in nature. Eating the two together not only greatly reduces the warming and tonic effect of mutton, but also harms the spleen and stomach. For patients with yang deficiency or spleen deficiency, it is very easy to cause spleen and stomach dysfunction, which in turn affects the vitality of the body.

7. Do not eat pears after eating crabs: Pears are sweet and cold in nature, and crabs are also cold in nature. Eating them together can easily damage the stomach and intestines.

8. Do not eat cantaloupe after eating crabs: cantaloupe is sweet, cold and slippery, and can remove heat and relieve constipation. Eating it with crabs is harmful to the stomach and intestines and can easily cause diarrhea.

Several ways to eat crabs

1. Steamed Crab

Method: First clean the crabs, be sure to use a small brush to clean them inside and out; then put the cleaned crabs in a steamer and boil them over high heat for about 15 minutes, then turn off the heat; put them in a bowl; season with rice wine, vinegar, and ginger, then dip the crabs in it and eat.

Nutritional tips: Steamed crabs retain most of their nutrients and taste great.

2. Scallion Crab

Wash the crabs as above, then steam them in a pot together with chopped green onions and ginger slices. Place the crabs in a bowl, sprinkle with chopped green onions and minced ginger, pour in oil, turn on the heat, and pour in the heated oil.

On the one hand, the scallion crab retains the freshness of the crab, and on the other hand, it has the fragrance of chopped green onions, which is simply enough to make people drool.

3. Stir-fried crab with red roe

Method: After cleaning the crabs, put them in a jar and pour in salt water (ratio of one pound of salt to two pounds of water) to submerge the crabs. Take them out after four days and cook them as usual.

Red roe crab is a way of eating crab that I created myself. Although the preparation process is a bit complicated, it tastes particularly good.

Precautions for eating crabs

Crabs are not suitable for everyone

Because crabs are cold in nature, they are not recommended for people with cold body, weak stomach, cold hands and feet, and allergic constitution. In addition, because crabs are rich in high protein, especially crab roe and crab paste, which have high cholesterol content, they are not recommended for patients with gallstones, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and obesity.

Do not eat dead crabs

Because when crabs are dying, they secrete a toxic substance called histamine, which accumulates as time passes. Of course, dead crab meat will also quickly rot and deteriorate, breeding other bacteria. Therefore, dead crabs should never be eaten.

Tips: The dead crabs mentioned here are river crabs. Usually, crabs from the sea are dead when they are caught.

Don't eat crabs raw, they must be cooked

Although crabs can be eaten in a drunken way, due to water quality problems, a large number of bacteria often grow in the crabs' bodies, so crabs must be cooked before eating, and not eaten raw for the sake of deliciousness. When boiling crabs, they must be steamed thoroughly and sterilized at high temperature, and then eaten after the crab shell turns red.

Tips: If you cannot finish the cooked and steamed crabs, they should not be stored for a long time before being eaten.

When eating crabs, you can only eat the meat, roe and yellow meat.

Since crabs live in rivers, lakes and other places, they feed on floating plants and animals and like to crawl in sand and rocks. Therefore, their gills and intestines contain a lot of mud and sand (the parts circled in red in the picture below are inedible). These must be removed when eating, and only the crab meat, crab paste and crab roe can be eaten.

Tips: People with coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and arteriosclerosis are advised to eat less crabs and not eat crab roe and crab paste.

When eating crabs, you must eat them with vinegar and ginger.

Because crabs are cold in nature, when stir-frying crabs, ginger, onions, and garlic are added to dispel the cold and remove the fishy smell. When steaming crabs, add an appropriate amount of chopped ginger to vinegar and dip it in before eating. This can offset the coldness of crabs and have a sterilizing effect. Secondly, dipping crab meat in vinegar can remove the fishy smell and increase the flavor of crabs.

Tips: If some people don’t like the sour taste of vinegar, you can add some sugar to the vinegar to improve the taste.

There are some rules for eating male and female crabs

There is a saying that goes "round belly in September, pointed belly in October", which means that female crabs should be eaten during the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the crab roe should be mainly eaten, while male crabs should be eaten in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and the crab paste should be mainly eaten.

Foods that are not suitable to be eaten with crabs

Crabs also have foods that are incompatible with them. Therefore, when eating crabs, you should not eat them with celery, persimmons, pears, oranges, pomegranates, tomatoes, cantaloupe, peanuts, sweet potatoes, honey, rabbit meat and other foods, otherwise it will cause discomfort to your body.

Tips: It is not recommended to drink tea or cold drinks within 1 hour after eating crabs.

Wash your hands with ginger soup after eating crabs

After eating crabs, if conditions permit, it is recommended to drink a bowl of ginger and brown sugar soup to warm the stomach. In addition, since there will be a unique crab smell on the hands after eating crabs, we usually boil a bowl of warm water with chrysanthemum or coriander to wash our hands to remove the fishy smell.

Tips: After eating crabs in a restaurant, you will often be served a bowl of soup with coriander leaves floating in it. At this time, don't eat the leaves in it, otherwise you will make a fool of yourself.