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The ingredients needed to make Where Is My Chili Crab?:
Prepare Spice Mix:
Get Dried Red Chilies, 10g Adjust to Preference
Prepare 3 TBSP Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil,
Take 10 g Yellow Split Peas,
Take Fresh Red Chilies Deseeded, 3 Adjust to Preference
Make ready Bird's Eye Chili / Chili Padi Deseeded, 1 Adjust to Preference
Make ready 3 Shallots Roughly Minced,
Take 4 Cloves Garlic Roughly Minced,
Prepare 1 Stalk Lemongrass White Parts Only Finely Sliced,
Get 3 Candle Nuts / Macadamia Nuts,
Make ready 1/2 Inch Galangal Finely Minced,
Get Chili Crab:
Take 1 TBSP Belacan Fermented Shrimp Paste,
Take 2 1/2 TBSP Tomato Ketchup,
Take 1/2 TBSP Oyster Sauce,
Prepare 1/2 TBSP Hoisin Sauce,
Get 1/2 Cup Miso Stock,
Make ready 125 g Good Quality Crab Meat Fresh or Frozen,
Take Palm Sugar / Gula Melaka, 1 1/2 TBSP Adjust to Preference
Take Pinch Sea Salt,
Take 1 Egg,
Prepare Pinch Nori Flakes,
Get Pinch Dried Mushroom Powder,
Get Fresh Lime Juice, 1 Lime
Make ready Fresh Lime Zest, 1 Lime
Take 8 Fried Mantou,
Get 1 Handful Fresh Coriander Finely Chopped,
Prepare 1 Handful Scallions Finely Chopped,
Get Cured Egg Yolk, For Serving
It was sheer fun; lots of fun. 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-thick, sweet and savoury tomato and chilli based sauce. Chilli Crab can be widely found at Malaysian and Singaporean seafood hawker stalls, kopi tiams or restaurants. 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.
Prepare the spice mix. - - Soak dried chilies in a bowl of hot water until soften. - - Deseed if desired. Pad the chilies dry. - - In a skillet over medium heat, drizzle oil.
Once the oil is heated up, add in the soaked dried chilies, peas and the rest of the chilies. - - Saute until aromatic. - - Transfer into a blender, reserving the oil in the skillet.
Add the rest of the ingredients. - - Blitz until fine paste and set aside. - - You can add a bit of water to keep the blitzing going.
Prepare the chili crab. - - In the same skillet over medium heat, add in belacan. - - Break the belacan into fine pieces with the back of a spatula. - - Toast the belacan until aromatic.
Add in the spice mix. - - You can add some water into the blender and clean up all the nooks + crannies, then add into the skillet. - - Saute until most of the liquid is evaporated. - - Add ketchup, hoisin and oyster sauce. - - Stir well to combine. The color should turn a darker shade of red.
Add in miso stock and crab. - - To make miso stock, simply add 1/2 TSP of miso into 1/2 cup of hot water. Stir until the miso is dissolved. - - Stir to combine well. - - Bring it up to a simmer.
Continue to simmer for about 3 mins. - - Taste and adjust for seasoning with palm sugar and salt. - - Add in egg and stir to combine well. - - Remove from heat.
Add in nori flakes, dried mushroom powder, lime juice and zest. - - To make dried mushroom powder, simply blitz some Chinese dried mushroom in a spice grinder until powder forms. - - Give it a final stir. - - Transfer into serving plates or bowls.
Garnish with coriander and scallions. - - Grate some cured egg yolk over the top. - - Serve with fried mantou in the side.
If you want the same plating as shown in the photo: - - Blitz the chili crab until smooth. - - Ladle onto serving plates. - - Place a fried mantou into the middle. - - Garnish with coriander and scallions. - - Grate some cured egg yolk over the top. - - Serve immediately.
Chilli Crab can be widely found at Malaysian and Singaporean seafood hawker stalls, kopi tiams or restaurants. 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. 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.
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