Recipe: Appetizing Chili Crab

Chili Crab. Our Chili Crab (which is commonly sold all over singapore)is much more complicated so this recipe is much more suitable to cook at home. I love this recipe and will cook it again but cannot agree that it taste like our local dish. Pour the oil into a wok or large skillet over high heat.

Add the crab pieces and stir fry at a higher heat till crab pieces turn red. Chilli crab is a Singaporean seafood dish. Mud crabs are commonly used and are stir-fried in a semi-thick, sweet and savoury tomato-and-chilli-based sauce. You can have Chili Crab using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chili Crab

1. It’s 1 kg of crab.
2. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Chinese 4 spice.
3. It’s 1 head of Garlic.
4. You need 1/4 cup of Oyster Sauce.
5. It’s 1/4 cup of Banana Catsup.
6. Prepare 2 tbsp of Butter.
7. Prepare 1/2 cup of Soda.
8. It’s 2 tbsp of Brown Sugar.
9. Prepare 5 stick of Green Finger Chili.
10. Prepare 2 stick of Onion leeks or Spring Onion.
11. You need 1 tbsp of Veg. Oil.
12. It’s 1 small of Ginger (julienne).

Despite its name, chilli crab is not a very spicy dish. In large wok with lid (or Dutch oven), heat oil over medium heat until shimmering. Chili crab is a seafood dish originating from Singapore. The couple ran Palm Beach Seafood Restaurant on Upper East Coast Road (near the present day East Coast Seafood Centre.) Mud crabs are commonly used and are stir-fried in a semi.

Chili Crab step by step

1. Wash the crab very carefully.
2. Heat the wok, put in Oil and Butter.
3. Add Ginger and Garlic, Saute put the Crab.
4. Add Oyster Sauce, Catsup, Soda, Chinese 4 Spice, Brown Sugar.
5. Simmer for a minute, add half of the Chilies (sliced).
6. Add pinch of Salt and Pepper.
7. Top with Half of the Chilies and Onion Leeks.

Chili Crab is a seafood dish that I enjoy with lots of rice. This dish is composed of crab (Mud Crab is originally used) cooked in sweet and spicy sauce. I had my first taste of this dish in the original dampa in Paranaque (a city in the Philippines). The chilli crab sauce has a combination of chillies, ginger, garlic, ketchup and most importantly, fermented soy beans. The gravy is then thickened and egg is added to it.