The present invention discloses an instant crab leg
processing method and relates to the crab
processing. The
processing method includes the following steps: 1) crab leg pre-treating: crab legs are washed and the washed crab legs are placed into salt and
sugar water to be soaked; 2) pre-cooking: the soaked crab legs are put into a
steaming and cooking
machine to be pre-cooked, and the pre-cooked crab legs are cooled to a
room temperature; 3) low-temperature
pickling: the pre-cooked crab legs are immersed in the salt and
sugar water again to conduct a low-temperature
pickling; and 4) packaging: the low-temperature pickled crab legs are loaded into a compound packaging bag according to specifications, the loaded pickled crab legs are vacuum packaged, and the vacuum packaged crab legs are subjected to a high-temperature and high-pressure
steam sterilization to thereby obtain a flexibly packaged crab leg finished product. In the production processing process of the instant crab legs, the salt and
sugar water is used to conduct a short-time soaking, so that the crab
meat proteins and the
reducing sugar produce a
Maillard reaction in the pre-cooking and the high-temperature and high-pressure
sterilization process. The processing method significantly reduces the
sensitization of the crab leg products, solves the cost problem that the crab leg meat obtaining needs a large amount of manual costs, and is simple in operation, low in cost, easy to achieve a large-scale production, etc.