Crab Roasted With Salt

Roasted crab with salt is a very popular dish of Cat Ba people in particular and Hai Phong people in general because it is delicious, nutritious and especially not salty. Salinity is just enough for the eater to feel the breath of the sea mingling with the dish. Deep sea salt fried crab dish becomes a culinary culture of Hai Phong people.

Good crabs must be live, not refrigerated because the tools often say "buy the dead ones, die out". Crabs caught up to clean and then stabbed into the breast with a sharp knife to make the crab suddenly die, then scrub the moss and sand with sand brush and take it for processing. Time from stabbing to crabs ... into the shorter the better the delicious. Salt for roasting crabs is also a special salt because it is not really salt but a salty powder mixed from many different spices.

Called roasted salt but not picky and does not take more time than boiling. Salt roasted crab with a little extra herbs such as lemongrass root, coriander leaves make the crab aromatic, reduce the smell of fishy. To make salt fried crabs, besides crabs and cooking oil, just add spices and salt powder. Flour is a mildly salted rice flour. When you cook a cooked dish, the dish will have a fine, loose layer of dough that looks like salt topped with.
Processed roasted crabs with bright red color, dotted with white salt grains mixed with spices such as: our smell, basil, lettuce. The taste of salted crabs is not as sweet as sugar, but it is naturally sweet, fragrant and has a salty taste. If boiled crabs are forced to eat hot to help fish, then roasted salt crabs can be eaten cold.