Pepper Crab

Pepper Crab is a delicious and great dish. Adding roasted black pepper gives nice aroma to this dish. Dry roasted powder gives a great flavor to this dish. The roasted fresh curry leaves give amazing taste to this dish. The roasted peppercorn is a heroic ingredient to this dish which is cooked and served with crab pieces gives a tasty recipe which goes very well with steamed white rice, idli or dosa.

Ingredients

Washed & Cleaned Crab – 1 lb.
Sliced Onions – 2 (Big)
Chopped Tomato – 1
Finely Chopped Ginger – 2 tsp
Chopped Coriander Leaves - few
Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
Cloves – 3
Cardamom – 2
Cinnamon Stick – 1 inch
Peppercorns – 2 tsp
Curry Leaves – a handful
Oil – 4 tsp
For Dry Roast & grind
Black Peppercorn – 1 tsp
Fennel Seeds – ½ tsp
Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp
Curry Leaves – a sprig
For ground masala
Black Peppercorn – 1 tsp
Grated Coconut – 4 tsp
Garlic Cloves – 4 pods
Green Chillies – 3
Small Onions – 2
Method
Heat a pan and dry roast black pepper, cumin seed, fennel seeds and curry leaves for a minute and grind it as fine powder, then keep it aside.

In the same pan dry roast, the ingredients which are under” for ground masala” and fry for few minutes. Let it cool down, then grind it as fine paste and keep it aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add the whole spices cardamom, cinnamon stick, cloves, peppercorns, curry leaves, ginger and onions. Let it fry for few min.

Then add chopped tomato pieces and fry until it becomes mushy. Add the cleaned and washed crab pieces with salt and fry for another 5 minutes.

Add required water and cook for 10 minutes. Then add the ground masala, close the lid and keep cook for another 5 minutes.

Finally add the dry roasted powder with little oil and mix with chopped coriander leaves. Cook for another 2 to 3 minutes. Once it done, switch off the flame. Pepper Crab is ready to serve with hot steamed rice.