Claypot Crabs
posted in Fish and other SeaFood recipes |Another recipe on craps which can be prepared at home and eat with the family. Eating
craps in restaurants are rather expensive and quite messy too. So why not buy a kilo or
two to cook at home. You can ask the crab seller to seperate the crab shells, the claws
and discard the unwanted parts. For this dish I use evaporated milk instead of coconut
milk.
Ingredients:
1 kg crabs,scrub the shells and claws cleaned, and crack
1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
3 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon pepper corn, crushed
8 chilli padi
3 to 4 limau perut or kaffir leaves
1 cube chicken stock- boil with 4 cups water
4 Chinese celery roots, lightly crushed
1 can evaporated milk
1 teaspoon fish sauce
Chinese celery and spring onions to garnish - finely cut
Method:
Heat 3 tablespoon oil in a sauce pan and fry the garlic till fragrant. Put a side. Stir in
pepper corn, celery root, limau perut and fry awhile. Transfer into a large shallow
claypot, add in chicken stock and crabs. Cover claypot and boil on high heat for 5
minutes.Add evaporated milk and fish sauce and salt to taste. Bring to the boil and
garnish with celery and spring onion before serving.
