Steamed Glutinous Rice with Crabs

Name: Steamed Glutinous Rice with Crabs (Pa pao hsun fan)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons dried shrimp (soaked and chopped); 2 tablespoons dried black mushrooms (soaked and chopped); 2 fresh crabs; 1 tablespoon wine; 1-½ teaspoons salt; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 5 cups soup stock; 2 tablespoons bamboo shoots (chopped); 2 tablespoons ham (chopped); 4 cups cooked glutinous rice; 3 tablespoons peanuts (shelled); 2 green onions; 4 slices ginger

Pa pao hsun fan

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

2 fresh crabs
2 tablespoons dried black mushrooms (soaked and chopped)
2 tablespoons

Asia
Taiwan
Fukien
Main course

Method

Heat 5 tablespoons oil. Stir-fry mushrooms, shrimp, bamboo shoots, ham and peanuts. Splash with wine, soy sauce, and salt and add 1 cup soup stock. Bring to boll, turn off flame and add glutinous rice, mix everything evenly.
Clean crab in cold water. Cut crab’s body obliquely into three large pieces, cutting off the sharp ends of the crab’s legs. Crush the big