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How to Cook Delicious and Refreshing Beef Shank and Crab Hot Pot
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Preparation
1 hour
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Cooking
1 hour
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Difficulty
Medium
Beef shank and crab hot pot is a favorite of many because of its sweet, tender, and enticing aroma. What are you waiting for? Let’s quickly cook this super attractive and nutritious beef shank and crab hot pot!
Ingredients for Beef Shank and Crab Hot Pot
Serves 4
Beef Shank 500 gr
Ground Field Crab 500 gr
Crab Paste 50 gr
Fried Tofu 100 gr
Straw Mushrooms 50 gr
Tomatoes 2
Rice Noodles 500 gr
Minced Shallots 1 tablespoon
Fried Onions 1 tablespoon
Scallions 1 stalk
Accompanying Vegetables Some
(Water Spinach/ Banana Blossom/ Amaranth)
Shrimp Paste 1 tablespoon
Fish Sauce 2 tablespoons
Rice Vinegar 3 tablespoons
Rock Sugar 1 tablespoon
Cooking Oil 1 tablespoon
Annatto Oil 1 tablespoon
Seasoning Powder/ MSG Some
Equipment
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh beef shank
- You should choose a piece of beef shank that is bright red interspersed with white tendons, the fat part is bright yellow.
- Press your hand into the meat to check, beef shank in particular or beef in general is fresh, it must have good firmness and elasticity, not sticky or slimy. Fresh meat does not have an unpleasant odor or any strange smell.
- With beef hot pot, you should choose the upper tendon of the cow, for example, beef shank, in addition, you can use beef thigh, beef ribs, beef tendon, or beef tail to make this beef hot pot.
How to choose fresh and meaty field crabs
- You can use pre-ground field crabs at reputable markets and supermarkets, when buying, remember to ask for more crab paste to make the dish more delicious. In addition, you can also buy live crabs and grind them at home or use a blender.
- For live field crabs, choose crabs that are opaque purple-gray, the shell is lighter in color. To choose crabs with a lot of meat, choose male crabs with a small and pointed abdomen, and to choose crabs with a lot of paste, choose female crabs with a larger abdomen, often called a flower abdomen.
- Choose those that are still moving fast, with full and flexible claws and legs. Press your finger on the shell of the abdomen and see air bubbles, the crab is still fresh.
- Do not choose field crabs with red eyes, hairy underbelly, or star-shaped spots on the back.
How to choose fresh straw mushrooms
- When choosing straw mushrooms, observe and choose mushrooms that are dark in color, intact, round, and still in bud, choose mushrooms with a characteristic aroma.
- Do not buy mushrooms that have caps and are large. Do not choose white mushrooms, with a bad smell and bruised.
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How to cook Beef Shank and Crab Hot Pot
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Prepare ingredients
Wash the beef shank and cut it into bite-sized pieces, put it in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Wash the accompanying vegetables, remove any damaged or wormy parts, and cut into bite-sized pieces. Wash the tomatoes and cut into wedges.
Cut off the stems of the straw mushrooms and wash them.
Put 500gr of ground field crab in a bowl, add 2 liters of water, stir well, and then filter through a sieve to get the water.
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Make crab meat
Put the filtered crab water in a pot, add 1 teaspoon of salt, put it on the stove over low heat and boil for 20 minutes, at this time you will see the crab meat forming into lumps.
Then turn off the stove and use a sieve to scoop the crab meat into a bowl, leave the water to cook the hot pot broth.
Put a pan on the stove over medium heat, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and wait until hot, when the oil is hot, add 1 tablespoon of minced shallots and sauté until fragrant, then add the crab paste and stir-fry over low heat for 5 minutes.
Finally, add the stir-fried crab paste and 1 tablespoon of fried onions to the bowl of crab meat and it’s done.
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