How To Cook And Clean Yabbies

Once the yabbies have been cooked place them on a suitable rack to cool them.

How to cook and clean yabbies. Yabbies that haven t moulted for a long time are usually dirty looking. In another saucepan bring 2 cups of full cream milk to the boil then add to the pan of yabbies in butter. Before cooking the yabbies place in a plastic bag or container in the freezer for around half an hour to sedate the yabbies.

To give extra sweetness the yabbies should then be left in the water to cool down for at least 10 minutes. Bring a pan to rapid boil and steam the yabbies in small quantities for approximately 5 minutes. Smaller yabbies are clean and light coloured because they are moulting a lot more often than the large yabbies.

I peeled them raw but i wouldn t recommend doing this. 1 tablespoon of salt to every 5 litres of water until they turn red. Cooking yabbies the simplest way to cook them is to drop them into a pot of boiling water for five minutes or so depending on how big they are.

Yabbies will pretty much eat anything dead decaying plants animals is their main diets in dams ponds. Then place the yabbies straight into the boiling water. Boil a container of water with a half a handful of rock salt in it.

I like to preserve the yabbies 1st mix a handfull of brown sugar with boiling fresh water 2nd add yabbies for 30 to 40 seconds 3rd drain yabbies and place into ice water then drain when chilled next freeze on a tray separately when frozen place in a container use when you need them they seperate easy hang on better and all species love them and you make good use of unused bait. Peel them when they are cooked when they ve turned red and their shells peel off easier. Yabbies aren t exactly the type to be thinking of etiquette when something delicious is in their sights.

They are cooked when they turn orange. Wait until the water boils again and cook them for 3 mins only. Add 500g of cooked shelled yabby tails and cook gently for a minute or two.