Preparation
25 minutes
Cooking
40 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
Crab hotpot with snakehead fish is a hotpot dish that is rustic, delicious, incredibly nutritious, and attractive with a very simple preparation method right at home. Today, let’s showcase this hotpot dish with the Into the kitchen section of TasteVN to treat your family on the weekend!
Ingredients for Crab Hotpot with Snakehead Fish For 4 people
Freshwater crab 400 gr (ground) Snakehead fish 200 gr Minced meat 200 gr Duck egg 1 piece Green onion 100 gr Fresh vermicelli 500 gr Accompanying vegetables A little (water spinach/ amaranth/ enoki mushrooms) Common spices A little (salt/ sugar/ ground pepper/ seasoning powder)
How to choose delicious snakehead fish
- To make a delicious hotpot, you should choose to buy freshwater fish because this fish has naturally firmer and tastier meat.
- You can buy fresh snakehead fish to process at home, fillet the bones and grind the meat to make fish cakes, or buy pre-processed and ground fish at supermarkets.
- For fresh snakehead fish: You should choose fish with clear eyes, shiny scales, firm and thick body for easier meat scraping.
- For pre-ground snakehead fish: you should choose fish meat that has a bright, pink or light pink color, not dull or greenish, and has no strange fishy smell.
- For pre-ground fish, you should buy from familiar places or reputable sellers to avoid the situation where snakehead fish is mixed with different types of less tasty fish.
Where to buy ground crab?
- You can buy pre-ground crab sold at local crab stalls in traditional markets or purchase packaged ground crab available in supermarkets.
- However, you should choose delicious local crabs and ask the seller to grind them for you or bring them home to process and grind or pound them yourself,…
How to prepare Local Crab Hotpot with Snakehead Fish
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Pound and marinate snakehead fish paste
Remove any wilted yellow leaves and roots from the green onions, wash them clean, then cut off the green tops separately, and chop the green onion leaves finely.
Marinate 200g of snakehead fish with 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of seasoning powder, and the finely chopped green onion leaves. Then, use your hands to pound the fish meat with the seasoning so that the fish paste becomes sticky.
Cook the hotpot
Next, when the broth is boiling, you gradually drop each minced crab meat cake into it. Cook for about 10 minutes, then add 2 teaspoons of seasoning, 1 teaspoon of salt, and the chopped green onion tops.
Finally, add 1 teaspoon of pepper. Stir well and cook for another 5 – 7 minutes, taste and adjust the seasoning to your liking, then turn off the heat.
You serve the hotpot in a electric hotpot, bring it back to a boil, then gradually add enoki mushrooms, amaranth, and water spinach to cook through and enjoy.
Final Product
Delicious and attractive freshwater crab hotpot with clear, sweet broth, featuring fish cakes and soft, chewy crab cakes that are full of flavor.
Remember to enjoy this hotpot with fresh noodles and a bowl of spicy chili sauce, guaranteed to keep you coming back for more!
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