Jiangsu Cuisine

• April 16,2023

"When autumn wind blows, paws of crab itch, when chrysanthemum blooms, crab comes." Although crabs are eaten all year round, autumn is best time to eat them.

From Happy Mother Xuan Xuan's Little Kitchen

1. Prepare ingredients: after beginning of autumn, a large number of crabs appear on market. Crabs are very cheap at this time of year, especially triangle crabs.

2. Crabs are eaten this season. Open Portunus shell filled with crab paste and crab roe and remove the crab gills.

3. Place crab roe in crab shell into a small bowl with a small fork.

4. Cut crab into small pieces

5. Squeeze out ginger juice and put it in a bowl of crab paste.

6. Beat in two native eggs and add some milk. This will make eggs smoother and more tender.

7. Add a scoop of Premium June Soy Sauce with Light Salt

8. Pour oil into a saucepan, fry onion and ginger, add a spoonful of spicy crayfish and fry so that scrambled eggs and crab have a slight Szechuan flavor

9. Add crab pieces and fry, stirring, until crab shells turn red and crab meat turns white.

10. Pour in egg liquid and continue to fry, stirring

11. Let each piece of crab meat roll in eggs

12. At end, sprinkle with shallots, remove from pan and put on a plate. The slightly spicy taste is combined with fresh aroma of swimming crab. When eating, first take out egg wrapped in crab shell, and then eat crab meat.

Autumn is day when crab fat turns red. Crabs in autumn are rich in nutrients, contain a lot of protein, calcium, zinc, and also iron, vitamins, etc. Crab meat is tender and tasty, it is a delicacy that people especially like to eat.

Crab is cold in nature and salty in taste, and it belongs to the liver and stomach meridian.

1. Antituberculous

Crabs also have an anti-tuberculosis effect, and eating crabs is very beneficial for recovering from tuberculosis.

2. Nutrition and detox

Crabs cleanse heat and detoxify, nourish bones and marrow, nourish tendons and activate blood circulation, deepen meridians, sharpen limbs, heal wounds, nourish liver yin, and fill gastric juices. It has a certain dietary effect on conditions such as flushing, injury, jaundice, back and leg pain, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Crabs should not be eaten with sweet potatoes, pumpkin, honey, oranges, pears, pomegranates, tomatoes, melons, peanuts, snails, celery, persimmons, rabbit meat, nepeta and soft shell turtles, as they are poisoning; eating crabs should not be washed down with cold drinks, it can cause diarrhea.