With crab vermicelli, each region has a different way of cooking with a distinct flavor of that place. Due to the taste of Southerners, the crab noodle soup here has a stronger taste, the presentation is also more sophisticated and eye-catching. In addition, an indispensable ingredient in Southern noodle dishes is pig’s blood. You will not expect, with just a few steps that are not too picky, you will have an attractive noodle dish right away.
How to cook Southern crab vermicelli
Material:
- Copper crab: 500 gr
- Tubular bone: 300 gr
- Peanut duck eggs: 2
- Dried shrimp: 50 gr
- Minced lean meat: 100 gr
- Pig blood: 200 gr
- Ripe tomatoes: 4 (about 300-400 gr)
- White tofu: 2 pieces
- Cashew oil: 2 tablespoons
- Sour tamarind: 30 gr
- Minced purple onion, lemon, chili
- Shrimp paste: cup
- Seasoning: Fish sauce, pepper, salt, sugar, cooking oil
- Vermicelli noodles: 1 kg
- Lettuce, split water spinach, grated banana, bean sprouts, herbs
Instructions on how to cook delicious Western crab vermicelli
Step 1: Prepare ingredients
– Crab: After buying, you wash thoroughly, remove the shell, remove the bib and crab mouth, separate the crab bricks into a separate bowl. With the rest of the crab, you marinate it with a little salt and then rinse it under the water again, then pound (or grind) finely, extract the crab juice.
– The bone part: you wash with salt water and then drain the water many times to clean it, boil it briefly with boiling water for about 2 minutes and then take it out. Then drain all the water or put the bones in another pot with fresh water and simmer for about 45 minutes.
– Dried shrimp: you soak in water until soft, then take out and dry.
– Lean minced meat: washed, then soaked with salt water to remove odors, then rinsed with clean water, sliced and minced finely, you can marinate with a little seasoning and pepper to make the meat rich.
– Peanut duck eggs: break into a bowl, beat eggs evenly.
– Pig blood: boiled with boiling water until the blood is just cooked, do not boil for too long, it will break the blood, take it out and soak it in cold water (if you buy ready-made blood, you can skip this step), cut it into small pieces. bite-sized squares.
– Tomatoes: wash, cut and trim the areca.
Tofu: cut into small squares (about 2cm) and then fry until golden, then take out, drain the oil.
– Shrimp paste: mix 2 tablespoons of shrimp paste with ½ cup of water, wait for it to settle to get the clear water.
– Vegetables: picked up, washed with salt water, then rinsed with clean water, finely chopped.
– Put chicken eggs + dried shrimp + minced meat in a bowl, mix well
Step 2: Cook broth
– North pan, add cashew oil and tomatoes to stir-fry, you can taste the seasoning to taste. When the tomatoes begin to ripen, then add the crab bricks and stir-fry together, until the bricks are completely melted, then turn off the stove.
– Put the pot of crab water on medium heat, when you see the bricks floating, you put the part of the pot on the side of the pot, gently put the bone broth into the pot of crab water, avoiding forcefully crushing the crab sauce, now you add the crab broth. shrimp paste in the same water, stir gently.
– Add the sautéed tomato mixture, season the pot of broth to suit your taste, then add blood + tofu into the pot, stir gently. Note, after this step, you just let the fire simmer to keep the pot hot, until the ingredients are all cooked.
– You can put a piece of crab broth into tamarind to make a dipping sauce.
Step 3: Present the noodle dish
– You lightly splash through boiling water and then pour the broth into a bowl filled with vermicelli + pieces of blood + a few pieces of tofu + tomatoes + crab bricks and sprinkle a little pepper, green onions and cilantro. Serve the vermicelli with a plate of vegetables + shrimp paste + tamarind juice.
Summary
Crab vermicelli has the aroma of crab, the sour taste of tamarind, the crispy taste of fried tofu, the sweet and savory taste of sweet water mixed with the taste of tomatoes, giving users a very delicious and comfortable feeling. Crab noodle soup will be more delicious when combined with vegetables and shrimp paste, add a little lemon and a few slices of chili.