Soy Sauce Marinated Crab 醬油醃蟹
This Soy Sauce Marinated Crab is easy to make and the result is crab meat and roe completely transformed into something succulent, meltingly tender and mindblowingly TASTY!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 live mud crabs 青蟹
- 2 cups light soy sauce, 500ml
- 4 tbsp shao hsing rice wine
- 1 cup chopped cilantro
- 4 tbsp minced garlic
- 2 chilies, chopped
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp minced ginger
Instructions
- 1
Using a small toothbrush, scrub clean the crab's body. Put crabs in freezer for 5 mins to put them to sleep.
- 2
Mix the soy sauce, rice wine, cilantro, garlic, chilies, sugar and ginger together.
- 3
Put crabs in a container that can fit them flat, side by side. Pour in the soy sauce marinade, making sure that the crabs are completely immersed in the marinade.
- 4
Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.
- 5
To serve: Pull the crab top shell up and off. Place on serving plate with inside facing up.
- 6
Remove by pulling and discard the gills on each side of crab.
- 7
Pull off the claws and use back of cleaver to lightly crack in order for easier access to the meat inside.
- 8
Use cleaver to cut the body in half and then chop each half into two or three pieces, depending on the size of the crab. Arrange all pieces on serving plate, drizzle a bit of the marinade over.