We love seafood all year round and even more so at Christmas. Come on, it’s a classic for Christmas tables. And therefore its price increases a little these dates. This is why you need to know how to buy: to have done it in advance freeze or look for alternative seafood.
If we are classics, we will bet on crabs and crabs. They are a guarantee of pleasure. This implies that, of course, it is better to buy fresh seafood than frozen. But in this matter send pocketEveryone does what they can.
If we buy fresh seafood, it’s convenient cook it freshly purchased. The cuisine of each species is different, in form and in time. This must be kept in mind so as not to destroy the product in the process.
Water, temperature and quantity
You have to calculate the quantity of water carefully. It’s basic. It must be abundant. Like the temperature: we’re going to put the kitchen on maximum heat because it’s around let the water boil in spurts.
Let’s go with our crabs and crabs. This is how they should be cookedas detailed in Pescaderías Coruñesas:
How to cook crabs
- We put the crab with cold water and ice or with lukewarm water if we want to do it faster.
- Pour a lot of water into a container (around 5 liters to cook 1 kg).
- We add 70 grams of salt per liter of water and bring the water to a boil.
- When the water boils, add the crab. We start counting when the water, after going down, boils again. Depending on the sizes, the deadlines are:
– Small crab of 80 to 125 grams, 4 minutes
– Large crab from 130 to 300 grams, 6 minutes - We remove the crab from the container and prepare it for consumption.
How to cook crabs
- We put the live crab in cold water with ice or, if we want to do it faster, in lukewarm water.
- We pour water into a container (about 5 liters to cook 1 piece).
- We add 70 grams of salt per liter of water and bring to a boil.
- When it boils, add the crab. We begin to count the time when the water, after having descended, boils again. Depending on the sizes, the deadlines are:
– From 0.5 kg to 0.8 kg, 17 minutes
– From 0.850 kg to 1.2 kg, 20 minutes
– From 1,250 kg to 1.6 kg, 25 minutes
– From 1.7 kg to 2.5 kg, 30 minutes - We remove the crab from the container and prepare to serve.
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