Tips on How to Process Delicious Crab

For most people who want to enjoy crab seafood, most buy it outside or in a restaurant, because cooking crab yourself seems very difficult and doesn't understand how to process it. Crab cultivation is too challenging!


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Sea food crab that is getting more and more popular.


The first thing to keep in mind when cooking crab is to select crab that is still fresh. Choose the one who is still living if possible. Don't worry, handling live crabs isn't as difficult as you would believe. Do you disagree? Come on, look at the proof

Crab is not a food product that is commonly processed at home; unlike chicken or beef, which are easier to process, crab is more difficult. If it is not done correctly, the meat will not only smell fishy, ​​but it will also be lost.

Well, you don't want to spend a lot of money on them, but you don't really appreciate the crab meal that you prepare yourself, do you? This is the proper method for making crab at home. Flush the crab with hot water in the tub as soon as it is purchased fresh and alive. Untie the crab's body, brush it, and wash it when it has died. After that, it's time to cook it.

Delicious Crab Recipes

Cooking's main elements:

- 5 crabs (fresh) (large size)

- oyster sauce, 5 tablespoons

- tomato sauce, 3 tablespoons

- 15 cayenne pepper pieces (finely ground) or to taste

- 1 teaspoon powdered pepper

- to taste salt

- enough spice enough water sugar to taste.


Prepare the following spices;

- 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)

- 2 red chilies, fresh (seeds removed, puree)

- 6 onions, red (finely chopped)

- 1 stalk lemongrass (bruised)

- 3 cm ginger root (bruised)

- galangal, 2 cm (bruised)

- three bay leaves (washed)

- sufficient frying oil.


The cooking process is as follows:


- wash the crab until it's completely clean

- Boil clean crabs in boiling water until cooked (remove, drain)

- saute the ground spices with a little oil in a frying pan until fragrant

- add ginger, lemon grass, and galangal that have been crushed

- add bay leaves that have been washed clean

- pour water into the seasoning that is sauteed to taste, wait until it boils

- put the crab that has been boiled into the seasoning

- then add the tomato sauce, oyster sauce, cayenne pepper that has been mashed a little coarsely and all the spices (pepper powder, granulated sugar, salt and flavoring) while stirring until well blended. Wait until it's ripe

Oyster sauce crab is ready to be served.

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