“Rau cang cua” (Crab claw herb) is a kind of folk
vegetable that is easy to find and the ingredient for many good nutritious
dishes.
Crab
claw herb is a kind of vegetable which grow naturally in the wet ground. Crab
claw herb grow faster and stronger with raining. To family, you can try any
type of plant pot to place crab claw herb in and water it to have fresh and
clean crab claw herb to eat. Knowing how to take care it, you will have
vegetable for the whole year.
Before, crab claw herb usually appeared in family meals only, but it becomes
more and more popular in the restaurant in really good dishes. Although growing
naturally its price is not cheap. Sometimes it comes to 15,000-20,000d/kg.
Crab claw herb is cool, antipyretic, nutritious, has sour taste and juice. It
is also good for curing some skin disease. Smash crab claw herb, squeeze to get
the juice, mix with a bit of salt and put on the wound will help.
Crab claw herb with oil vinegar sauce
Talking about Crab claw herb, people usually think of beef salad with oil
vinegar sauce. There are many ways to do this dish.
Marinate the beef to taste. Wash the herb clean and drain, then place on a
dish. Add oil in a pan, fry onion, add beef, quick stir fry and pour all over
the vegetable dish. Mix vinegar with seasoning powder, sugar, garlic and chili
to taste a bit of sour and sweet.
To be more
complicated, people garnish with some slices of tomato and boiled eggs. The
crab claw herb dish will become a colorful picture with green, red, white,
yellow, so attractive and nice looking. Sprinkle some peanut on tip will
fulfill the taste of this dish.
We can switch egg with tofu to make a good vegetarian dish.
Besides, frog meat
with crab claw herb can also be a delicious one. Fry garlic, onion until
smelling, then stir fry frog meat, and place on the crab claw herb. You can add
some flour or corn starch in vinegar to make a sauce. Crab claw herb is good to
use with crab, shrimp, fish.
Crab claw herb salad
If the crab claw herb
with oil vinegar sauce dish seems to be complicated, this kind of salad will be
quicker.
Wash the crab claw herb clean, drain. Mix vinegar with light seasoning then
stir well with crab claw herb. Mix fry onion, dry shrimp, finely slice pig
skin, peanut with the mixture vegetable sauce and adjust to taste. The taste of
salt, sweetness, sour, with the crunchiness of herb, chewy of pig skin,
softness of dry shrimp will make a special salad.
Besides, crab claw herb can be mixed with some other such as sam leaf, basil…
and dip into poached fish or poached pork sauce. The sour of this herb with
balance your taste when eating together with salt poached sauce
Crab claw herb will be a special dish in your meal.
*Taro**
