Sunday, June 14, 2009

Fried Chilli Crab

Crab is one kind of seafood i love the most, nowadays its becomes my daughter's favorite too. I remember, my grandma use to cook crab and bring it home to me.


Ingredients

2 Medium Size - Raw crabs
1/2 cup - Peanut oil
2 Tsp - Finely grated fresh ginger
3 no - garlic cloves(finely chopped)
3 no - Fresh red chilies, seeded and chopped
1/4 cup - Tomato sauce
1/4 cup - Chili sauce
1 Tbs - Sugar
1 Tbs -Light soy sauce
1 Tsp - salt(or to taste)
Instruction
Step1 . Wash crabs well, scrubbing away any mossy patches on the shell.
Step2 . Remove hard top shell, stomach bag and fibrous tissue and with cleaver chop each crab into 4 pieces, or 6 pieces , if they are large.
Step 3. Heat a wok, add oil and when oil is very hot fry the crab pieces until they change color, turning them so they cook on all sides.
Step 4. Remove to a plate. Turn heat on low and fry the ginger, garlic and red chilies, stirring constantly, until they are cooked but not brown.
Step 5. Add the sauces, sugar,soysauce and salt and bring to the boil, then return crab to the wok and allow to simmer in th e sauce for 3 mins, adding very little water if sauce reduces too much.


Step 6. Serve with white rice.

Source
The complete Asian cookbook - Charmaine solomon.

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