My uncle serves in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and regularly gives us Kamchatka crabs, I had to learn how to cook them.

But we're doing well when we think about it. how to cook crab. No, really, without any irony. If you take me, the author, it used to be an inaccessible delicacy for me. Actually, I didn’t know anything about it – crabs were only interested in me as a subject of study from a biological point of view. But now I'm thinking about taste.



Editorial "Site" He said, “Here’s the crab, dear reader!” It's time for the holidays to please the family and cook a really unusual dish. Yes, the price may bite, but it's worth it. We will not exchange small things and the subject of our gastronomic review will be the Kamchatka crab. It's great your turkey!

Crabs are now grown a lot, so they get on the shelves of stores without any special difficulties. Most often in frozen form. It is better, of course, when they are alive, it is a guarantee of freshness, but also not bad. The main rule is to freeze again what has already been thawed. Therefore, it is advisable to cook the crab all at once. For a large family, there is no problem.



Peels How to make sure the crab is edible? First, smells. There should be nothing suspicious, like a strong smell of iodine or, God forbid, rotten. You can knock on the limbs, the sound should be deaf - all kinds of voids are excluded. Most often, the crab is sold in deep salt freezing. What does that mean?

After the crab is caught, it is boiled, then cooled in cold sea water. This way, it retains the maximum of all that is useful in it. What else is interesting? Often offer not all the crab, and the so-called “rose” and phalanxes. This only makes the cooking process easier.

How to cook crab

There is absolutely nothing complicated if the crab is purchased frozen. And there are three perfectly understandable and simple ways. Here they are:

1. Defrosting
   It is logical that since the crab is already pre-boiled, you just need to give it time to defrost. Let it remain at room temperature for four to five hours, after which it can be eaten. So it retains its natural taste and remains, so to speak, in its original form.
2. pottery
   Many believe that the crab can still be cooked. It's a mistake. The crab in the pan is heated, so you need to keep it in water until the first bubbles. You can add pepper and bay leaf. Salt at will. To put a crab in a pan, you need to break the phalanxes.
   
   
   
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3. Oven
   This method is for those who do not want to “break” the crab legs. Frozen crab fits wonderfully in the oven, temperature 100 degrees Celsius, time half an hour. Recall that we only need to heat the crab, not bake, so you can check in what condition it is.

Perhaps, one of the most important questions, for which the whole article was started. Cooking a crab is one thing, but buying one? The price is different, but on average you need to be prepared for the fact that the phalanx and rose (claws) will cost from $ 50 per kilogram. For those who do not want to mess with all these preparations, the price soars to almost $ 100 per refined.



Depends on the price tag and the region. Our price is valid for places where the crab is usually unfamiliar to society. Nevertheless, modern logistics and delivery services perfectly cope with the task, which means a large kamchatka crab It could be on your New Year’s table. Every day, of course, even a family with a normal average income can not afford it.

Be sure to write in the comments if you plan a crab on the New Year's menu and what you think to make of it. Or is it better to eat it in its pure form, enjoying delicate and tasty meat? We are waiting for answers with simple recipes, in case others want to try.



It's not as scary as they paint it! How to cook a crab It’s more rhetorical than practical – buy it first. Read our article on how to make buffalo soup and what seafood is absolutely not suitable for this. Bon appetit!