Spicy Crab Roast

Spicy Crab Roast is a famous and tasty South Indian seafood. Even though it’s little hard to clean up, but the taste will be amazing. In this dish, the crab is cooked with some Indian Spices, onion tomato masala and coconut milk. I have added coconut oil, that will give extra aroma to this dish. Especially most of the Keralites use coconut oil to prepare this dish. This goes well with any steamed white rice, ghee rice, pulao, idli and dosa.

 Happy Cooking :)

Ingredients
Crab – 1lb (Cleaned, Washed & Chopped)
Chopped Shallots/Small Onions – 1 Cup
Chopped Tomato – 1
Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp
Chilli Powder – 1 tsp
Coriander Powder – 2 tsp
Coconut Milk – ¼ Cup
Water – ¼ Cup
For Dry Roast & Grind
Cumin Seeds- 1 tsp
Fennel Seeds – 1 tsp
Peppercorn – 1 tsp
Garlic – 1 Cloves
To Temper
Coconut Oil – 4 tsp
Cumin Seeds – ¼ tsp
Fennel Seeds – ¼ tsp
Peppercorn – ¼ tsp
Curry Leaves – few
Method
Wash and clean the crab and cut into two pieces. Then keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan, add the tempering ingredients and for few seconds, then add curry leaves.
Add chopped onions and fry well, then add chopped tomato pieces, ginger garlic paste and required salt. Fry until it becomes mushy.
Now add cleaned crab pieces and fry in oil for 4 to 5 minutes. Now add chilli powder, coriander powder, coconut milk and water. Do not add to much water unless you want to get crab masala. Close the lid and cook until the crab cooked well.
By mean time, dry roast the ingredients and fry for few minutes and switch off the flame. Let it cooldown and grind it as fine powder.
Add this dry roast masala and fry until you get the right consistency.