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How To Cook Crayfish

1. How To Cook Crayfish

Ingredients

  • 2 fresh crayfish Australia
  • 2 lemons (thinly sliced)
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Step 1: Prepare the crayfish

After buying crayfish, leave the whole body and wash it. Note the gentle manipulation; avoid breaking the antennae and legs. If you use crayfish from frozen, you need to defrost it overnight in the refrigerator compartment.

Step 2: Boil crayfish

You take a large enough pot and pour in 1.5 liters of water enough to cover the crayfish. Put thinly sliced ​​lemon, and salt in the pot and cook over medium heat.

When the water boils, add the crayfish and boil for 20 minutes. Boiling time depends on their weight; you can refer to the following table:

Gram lb Cooking Time
680g 1.5 lb from 11 to 12 minutes
800g 1.76 lb from 12 to 13 minutes
900g 1.98 lb about 15 minutes
1.1kg 2.42 lb about 20 minutes
1.3kg 2.86 lb about 25 minutes
2.2kg 4.85 lb about 35-40 minutes

Step 3: Finally, take out the crayfish and soak them in cold water for 3 minutes. Serve

2. How To Eat Crayfish

To eat crayfish properly, you use the middle left hand to grab the crayfish head; the right-hand turns the tail right to left to separate the crayfish head from the crayfish body.

how to cook crayfish

Turn the crayfish body upside down, and use scissors to cut the shell on the crayfish belly along. Then, use your hands to separate the shell and remove the crayfish meat from the body. You can dip crayfish meat with salt and pepper, lemon, or mayonnaise.

After reading this post, I hope you know how to cook crayfish. I believe that you can do it well. Please read again for sure to do that you can do it better.

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