Ginger sauce for steamed crab

1 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1Live Dungeness crab
½cupChopped fresh ginger
½cupMild vinegar
⅓cupLight soy sauce
⅓cupSugar, or to taste

Directions

Now that it's crab season, try this Eastern Chinese dipping sauce, loaded with fresh ginger and vinegar.

Put the live crab in a steamer over rapidly boiling water; cover and steam for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix the remaining ingredients thoroughly until the sugar dissolves.

Divide sauce among 2 to 4 dip bowls, depending on the number of diners. Serve with the steamed crab.

NOTE: Chopped fresh coriander may be added, if desired.

By Bruce Cost, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/16/88.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; November 2 1992.