Steamed Crab With Ginger Recipe

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Steamed Crab With Ginger
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Ingredients
8
Count
Nutrition
184
Calories
Total time
15
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. To segment the crabs, lift the flap under the body with your thumb and pull off the top part of the shell with one hand while holding the body firmly with the other and discard the top shell.
  2. Remove and discard the spongy white gills on either side of the body and rinse out the brown/yellow much and then use a sharp knife to cut each body in half and then that half in half again and crack the claws with a nutcracker.
  3. Put a rack into a electric fry pan (skillet - ours are square) and put water into bottom of the frypan (in the original recipe they used a bamboo steamer in a wok and used a heat proof dish in the steamer), bring the water to the boil.
  4. Meanwhile, place lemon grass on a heatproof plate and place crab on the lemon grass (try to do one layer) and sprinkle with sugar and drizzle with soy sauce and half of the sliced ginger.
  5. Place the plate in the steamer and cook covered for 3 minutes or until crab is just cooked through (the meat will be white rather than transparent when cooked - we found the crabs in Cowell cooked quicker than we were used to in Perth).
  6. Sprinkle with spring onions and remaining ginger and cook a further minute or 2 until spring onion wilts and then remove from heat (to be honest I put all the ginger and spring onions together in the previous step and missed this one cooking the crab for 5 minutes which actually overcooked it).
  7. We just put the plate (or in our case it was 2 plates) in the centre of the table with finger bowls and napkins and everyone helps themselves or put into individual serving bowls and garnish with coriander leaves.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 183.9 Kcal (770 kJ)
Calories from fat 50.26 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 5.58g 9%
Cholesterol 22.14mg 7%
Sodium 3305.31mg 138%
Potassium 802.3mg 17%
Total Carbs 24.25g 8%
Sugars 0.57g 2%
Dietary Fiber 0.44g 2%
Protein 12.31g 25%
Vitamin C 1.7mg 3%
Iron 5.9mg 33%
Calcium 158.1mg 16%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 31.99 Kcal (134 kJ)
Calories from fat 8.74 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.97g 9%
Cholesterol 3.85mg 7%
Sodium 575.01mg 138%
Potassium 139.57mg 17%
Total Carbs 4.22g 8%
Sugars 0.1g 2%
Dietary Fiber 0.08g 2%
Protein 2.14g 25%
Vitamin C 0.3mg 3%
Iron 1mg 33%
Calcium 27.5mg 16%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 4.1
    Points
  • 5
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • low calorie,
  • low fat,
  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol,
  • sugar free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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