Crab Fry

It’s a very popular dish in my native. My mom prepares this dish very well. I got the recipe from them. I’m sure you will definitely enjoy with this recipe. Mom, I’m really missing your preparations & tasty foods.

What a tasty food??? We missed the one most favorite food. After came here, we didn't get a chance to have this food. We just tried so many plazas over here. But it’s not looks like the normal size. Only we could see huge sized crabs…

What to do??? But I got a sudden surprise from my husband. One day he left to home with normal sized crab.  Yep, it’s blue crab. We are really very happy and especially my son loves the crab very much.

What next??? I prepared this tasty crab fry and had with steamed rice. I got the small sized blue crab, so I didn't halved them for fry. I just used the whole instead.

This goes well with steamed rice/ briyani/ pulav/fried rice/curd rice…

Ingredients

Crab – 5

Chopped Onions – 2 (big)

Chopped Tomato – 1 (big)

Tamarind Juice – 3 tsp

Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Fennel Seeds – 1 tsp

Pepper Seeds – 1 tsp

Garlic – 3 cloves

Coconut – 3 tsp

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder – 2 tsp

Oil

Salt to taste

Curry leaves – few

Coriander leaves – few

To temper

Cinnamon – 2

Cardamom – 1

Bay leaf – 1

 Method

First you have to take crab properly, clean crab well in water and you need to remove one side of hard crab shell completely. Now you can see the crab flush. And remove the unwanted parts.

Wash and clean the crab and chop into small pieces. Then keep it aside. I know it’s somewhat tough to clean than other meat.

In a pan, add fennel seeds, cumin seeds, pepper seeds and garlic then roast it well. Let it cool down then grind it with coconut.  Then keep it in a bowl.

In a kadai, heat oil then add bay leaf, curry leaves, cinnamon & cardamom. Then add chopped onions and fry till it becomes mushy.

Now add crab pieces and fry well in oil with little bit salt. Then only it absorbs the saltiness.

Keep fry another 5 min in oil. Do not over fry. It should be cooked on a low flame.

Then add chopped tomatoes and keep fry until it mashed well with crab.

Now add chilli powder, coriander powder and tamarind juice, grinded masala and sprinkle water if it is needed and keep fry for about 5 min.

Now add the chopped coriander leaves and sprinkle oil to roast well. Keep fry on low flame for about 5 min.

  
Switch off the flame and transferred into serving bowl.