Butter Crab
Ingredients:
1Kg pf Crabs
8 Cups of oil for deep frying
50g salted butter or margarine
Half bowl curry leaves
1 tsp chopped chili padi
1 tsp sugar for seasoning
Batter (Mixed):
3 tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp corn flour
1 egg
Half tsp sugar
Half tsp salt
100ml water
Method:
1 Washed and chopped the crabs into pieces and drain well
2 Heat up oil for deep frying. Coat the crabs with batter and deep fry in hot oil until golden brown and cooked. Dish and drain.
3 Melt butter in a wok, sauté curry leaves and chili padi until fragrant.
4 Add in seasoning, crabs and stir fry until well mixed. Dish up and serve
Crab in Oyster Sauce
Ingredients:
1Kg pf Crabs
8 Cups of oil for deep frying
2 tbsp of corn flour
1 tbsp of oil
1 tbsp chopped garlic
Seasoning:
4 tbsp Oyster sauce
1 tbsp light soya sauce
Half tbsp sugar
1 tbsp shaoxing wine
Dash of pepper
100ml water
Method:
1 Washed and chopped the crabs into pieces and drain well. Coat crabs with corn flour and deep fry in hot oil until golden brown. Dish and drain.
2 Heat up 1tsp oil of chopped garlic until fragrant. Add in seasoning till boil. Add in crabs and stri fry. Dish up and serve
Deep Fry Mud Crab Shell with Stuffed Fish Glue
Ingredient
8 pieces of Mud Crabs (approx 250g each)
400g of fish glue.
300g of water chestnut, chopped into fine pieces
2 beaten egg
2 tbsp of corn flour
100g of Chinese coriander leave (finely shredded)
Some Mayo to taste
Seasoning:
Half tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp of fish sauce
Coating:
1 Egg white
Some fresh breadcrumbs
Method:
1 Steam the crabs, Un-shell the meat into shredded. Wash the drain the Crab Shell Cover.
2 Pour all fish glue with shredded crab meat, water chestnut, corn flour, Chinese coriander leave and beaten egg into a mixing bowl and mixed well and the seasoning.
3 Stuff the paste into the crabs shell evenly.
4 Glaze the top with egg white and sprinkle top with the breadcrumbs.
5 Steam the stuffed Crab shell for 5 mins and deep fry the shell till golden. Serve with Mayo to taste.
Spicy Crab with Garlic
Ingredient
2 x 600g of mud crab cut into pieces
4 pieces of red chilli, diced
4 tsp minced garlic
2 tsp peppercorn
3 tsp salt
Some corn flour
Pinch of pepper
A little sesame oil
Method:
1 Cut the crab into 8 pieces, Wash and Dry
2 Sauté the peppercorn in a hot and dry wok, add in salt over the low heat till the mixture has a colour change. Take it out and set aside
3 Sift the fried peppercorn and salt
4 Add the mixture into the crab and marinate for 15 minutes
5 Coat the crab with corn flour
6 Heat up some oil in a wok, put in the crab and deep try over high heat for 5 minutes. Drain and set aside
7 Heat a little oil, fry the garlic and diced red chilli. Return the crab to the wok. Stir fry and serve
Baked Stuffed Crabs with Dried Scallops and Egg white
Ingredient
6 Crab shells
80g of crab meat, shedder
2 dried scallops, soaked
1 cooked egg, diced
6 mushrooms, diced
2 slices bacon, diced
2 tbsp chopped onion
A little coriander (for garnishing)
3 Egg whites
10g flour, 20g corn flour
Creamy Mix:
3½ tbsp flour
2 ½ tbsp milk
½ cup stock, 125 ml
1 tsp chicken powder
Method:
1 Heat up a little oil, Put in onion and sauté, Add in shredded crab meat, bacon, mushrooms, dried scallops and set asides
2 Mix the creamy mix ingredients. Heat it up thickens and set aside.
3 Put the heated ingredients back into the wok, Add in the cooked egg white and mix it up with the cream. Set aside.
4 Stuff the fillings into the crab shells
5 Beat the egg white into thick cream.
6 Add in the sifted flour and corn flour, Stir the mixture quickly.
7 Fill up the crab shell with egg white mixture, Garnish the top of the fillings with some coriander
8 Put the stuffed crab shells into an oven.
9 Baked them over moderate heat till slight golden brown and serve
Fried Crab with Cereal
Ingredient:
1 kg Crabs, cut into pieces
1 tbsp corn flour
8 cups oil for deep frying
1 tbsp chopped garlic
5 tbsp of cereal
2 stalks of curry leaves
Seasoning:
1 tsp light soya sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp shaoxing wine
100ml water
Method:
1 Coat crabs with corn flour and deep fry in hot oil until golden brown, Dish and drain.
2 Heat up the oil and fry the cereal till golden brown and set aside
3 Heat up 1 tbsp oil and sauté chopped garlic until fragrant. Add cereal and stir fry until aromatic, Mix in crabs, seasoning and stir fry at high heat until well mixed.
4 Add in curry leave and stir well. Dish up and serve.
