Chinese Crab Rice

Directions

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   {"0":"Finely chop 2 green (spring) onions and grate 2-3 cms of fresh ginger.","1":"Combine them with 4 tablespoons dry sherry and 3 tablespoons light soy","2":"sauce. Prepare three green blue swimmers crabs. Chop two of them into","3":"several pieces with a large knife or cleaver and crack the hardest pieces","4":"of the shell with a hammer. Crack the third crab thoroughly all over but do","5":"not chop up. Pour the sherry-soy sauce mixture over the crabs and leave to","6":"marinate for an hour. Wash 400 grams glutinous rice in several changes of","7":"water until the water runs clear.","9":"Put the rice into a saucepan and pour over it 1.5 L water. Bring to the","10":"boil and boil for 5 minutes. Drain.","12":"In the bottom of a heatproof dish at least 12 cm deep and of a size to fit","13":"into your steamer, pack in the chopped crab pieces, reserving the marinade.","14":"Pour the rice over the top and pack it down. Press the intact crab into the","15":"top of the rice. To the marinade, add a further tablespoon soy sauce and a","16":"tablespoon oil, teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon sugar. Pour over the crabs and","17":"rice.","19":"Put the dish in the steamer over boiling water and steam for 35-40 minutes.","20":"Serve. Diners deal first with the top crab, now half buried in rice, then","21":"fish around, for the rest of the crab pieces in rice."}