Chilli Mudcrab
April 23, 2012 2 min read
Recently I stumbled onto a recipe that was without doubt, the best thing I had tasted, ever!! I am going to share this recipe and I want everyone's feedback as to what they thought?? Now I can't guarantee it will taste as good as mine did but if you follow these steps it will be pretty bloody close... Enjoy!!
Ingredients
- 2 mud crabs (or use Crayfish, Prawns, Bugs or Blue swimmers)
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 4 cloves of garlic - chopped
- 2 banana chillies - chopped or chilli flakes
- 2 tablespoons of chopped ginger
- ½ cup of tomato sauce
- ½ cup of sweet chilli sauce
- 200ml of water
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 cup chopped green spring onion
- 1 cup of mixed Vietnamese mint leaves and coriander leaves
- 1 Tablespoon coriander stem - chopped
- 2 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 - 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoon of sea salt
- 15 cherry tomatoes cut in half
Method
- Freeze the crabs until they are asleep/dead (most humane way)
- Remove the top head shell and discard
- Remove the gills and clean out any excess muck (rinse very lightly and quickly)
- Cut in half lengthways, then cut into 3 on each side using a cleaver
- Crack the claws with the back of a knife or cleaver just so they open a bit to let the sauce in.
- Heat oil in a wok
- Add garlic, chilli, ginger and coriander root and cook until fragrant
- Add the crabs and toss for 1 minute covering them in the above ingredients
- Add tomato sauce, chilli sauce, water, hoi sin sauce, fish sauce, sugar and salt.
- Stir to combine the ingredients, bring to the boil.
- Cover and allow to simmer/steam for about 10 minutes
- Add in the green onions, cherry tomatoes and herbs and mix for 30 seconds then serve with steamed jasmine rice