Soy Sauce Crab
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Ingredients :
*1Tablespoon = 15g / 1Teaspoon = 5g / 1Cup = 200g
Crab : 1kg (3crabs)
Onion : 1ea(medium size)
Kelp : 20cm x 20cm
Red pepper : 1ea
Whole garlic : 5ea
Large green onion : 2ea
Apple : 1ea
Asian pear : 1ea
Soju : 100g
Soy sauce : 1L
Water : 3L
How to Make it :
Choose the crab’s size that is not too big or not too small. About 1kg for 3 crabs are good sized crabs.
Clean the crabs with brush and cut off the pointy sharp ends of the each legs.
Pat the crabs with kitcken towel to remove the excess water and put it in a container by laying down the crab’s stomach to face up and poor the soju on it.
Poor the soy sauce, water, onion, kelp, garlic, apple, pear, large green onion, and the red pepper together into a pot and start boiling. After it starts to boil, keep boiling for about 20minutes.
After the boil, turn off the heat and run it through a filter and let it cool down.
When the soy sauce is completely colled down, poor it into a container with crabs and let the crabs completely sink in. Keep it in a room temperature for about a day and put it into a fridge to cool it down for another day.
Tip :
If you want to make it spicy, add more red pepper when boiling the soy sauce.
Normally between the mid April through the early May, female crabs are best to make because it contains a lot of eggs and male crabs are best to eat in the fall season.