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Feb 19th, 2010 at 5:46am

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SBB not sure if we have the Chilli Crab Recipe can you share it again ..... pretty please  Cheesy
 

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Reply #1 - Feb 19th, 2010 at 8:05am

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Never did share it Carolyn. But shall do soon,,,,,,I think Skip posted a good one some where but i cant find it.
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Reply #2 - Feb 24th, 2010 at 6:41pm

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CHILLI CRAB

Ingedients
1 x 1kg Mud Crab
1/3 cup peanut oil
1 teaspoon finely chopped Ginger
1 teaspoon finely chopped Garlic
½ cup tomato sauce
1 tablespoon Sambal Oelek
1 tablespoon soft brown sugar
1/3 cup of water

Preparing The Crab
Place crab in ice slurry until totally immobile
Remove top shell of the crab
Twist off legs and claws
Remove the feathery gills and other internals.
Using a knife chop the body into four
Crack the claws with a good hit with the back of a heavy knife
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Method of Cooking
Heat the oil in a wok and cook a quarter of the crab for 2 mins or until it changes colour, remove to a bowl
Cook the remaining crab in batches adding them to the bowl.
Add the ginger and garlic to the oil in the wok cook gently till golden brown.
Add tomato sauce, sambal oelek, brown sugar and water.
Bring to the boil, simmer about 3 mins or until oil rises to the surface.
Add the crab and cook turning for 8 mins.
Serve with steamed rice.
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A Few Notes.
Above is the original recipe.
We have made a ton of this stuff over the last 15 years, sometimes batches big enough to feed forty plus people.
A few handy hints I have learnt are.
Sorry folks but this one really is easier to cook in a wok …ever tried deep frying crab parts in 1/3 cup of oil in a camp oven??
The original recipe is a bit short on the chilli sauce mix…..I usually double the amount of water, sugar, tomato sauce, sambal oelek, ginger, garlic and oil  regardless of the size batch Im cooking . This also increases the amount of oil and makes the deep frying bit easier and faster.
Take care cracking claws, don’t smash them…you don’t want all the meat to fall out when cooking,
Really big claws should be cooked a little longer than 3 mins.
The little legs (not the claws) really only need to be tossed around in the oil until they turn red. Cooked to long they go dry inside
Twist legs off rather than pull, if you pull you also pull half the meat out of the body section.
Cooked this way served with rice one good sized mud crab will feed 2 people…..no matter weather you are feeding 2 or 40
Sambal Oelek varies in heat from brand to brand, the BEST brand I have found is “KOKITA brand” its hard to find but worth grabbing if you see it.
Palm Sugar is available at asian stores and is used in this dish traditionally. The dark brown type has more flavour than the lighter coloured one.
Chilli Crab is the National dish of Singapore.
 
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Reply #3 - Feb 25th, 2010 at 8:13am

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Thanks Rory I am sure you wont mind me sharing it.  Yummy cant wait to try it.
 

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Reply #4 - Feb 25th, 2010 at 9:07am

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Gee, what delicate hands you have SBB Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

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Reply #5 - Apr 1st, 2010 at 11:25am

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I usually double the amount of water, sugar, tomato sauce, sambal oelek, ginger, garlic and oil  regardless of the size batch Im cooking . This also increases the amount of oil and makes the deep frying bit easier and faster.


I bought three muddies today which weigh about 5K between them.  Should I use the recipe times 5??? or just double???


 

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Reply #6 - Apr 1st, 2010 at 12:26pm

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Too much of the resulting sauce is always better than not enough Carolyn.....Id go 5x.
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Reply #7 - Apr 1st, 2010 at 3:39pm

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Thanks SBB will give me more oil I am shuddering at how many batches I will have to fry.  Its only part of the meal so its not your ration of 1 x 2.  The nice man told me that it wouldnt harm the end result if he cracked and chopped them today but I have to do the legs etc only problem I havent looked but dont think I will have any nice big pieces of shell for display.
 

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Reply #8 - Apr 2nd, 2010 at 8:35pm

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Thanks Rory the recipe more than lived up to its reputation.  I did it by 5.  Did the frying in a Wok but then as it was a large quantity moved over to the aussie camp oven for the sauce part.  I did reduce the oil at this point but x5 everything else and most could happily just have the sauce over the rice it was sooooo good.  I even had one guest ask to take home the bit of left over sauce and some rice.   Big thanks for sharing this. 

There has been talk elsewhere about seasoning the bedourie and the aussie oven is made from the same material - dont think its possible to make it look "pretty" but I find it useful as its the deepest camp oven I have.  Cheesy



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Reply #9 - Apr 3rd, 2010 at 10:27am

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Yep its a good recipe Carolyn...........Im glad you liked it Smiley
How good is the smell of that ginger and garlic when it is deep frying and browning Smiley
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