“RAU CANG CUA” (CRAB CLAW HERB)

“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.

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