Cooking with cast iron a dish from every country
Country: Singapore 🇸🇬 | Dish: Chilli Crab
Chilli crab | Cangrejo en salsa picante | 칠리 크랩
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INGREDIENTS👨🍳
Rempah
Shallots – 3 small, chopped
Garlic – 6 cloves, chopped
Ginger – 4-inch piece, chopped
Soybean paste (Taucu) – 2 tbsp
Dry chilies – 6, re-hydrated
Green chilies – 4, stemmed and choppepCanola oil – ¼ cup
Shrimp paste (Belachan) – 1 tbsp
Tomato purée – 1 cup
Sweet chili sauce – ½ cup
Crabs – 4 blue crabs, cleaned, quartered
Water – ½ cup
Egg – 1
Sugar – to taste (½ tsp)
White vinegar – 3 tbsp
Garnish
Scallions – thinly sliced
Cilantro
PERSONAL NOTE ✒️
Chili Crab is kind of the national dish of Singapore. Essentially, this dish involves stir-frying crabs (previously cleaned) in a sweet and savory tomato-and-chili-based sauce. It’s super delicious! You can use different types of crabs, most often mud crab. Here I use blue crabs that were available at my local seafood market. The blue crabs have less meat, but they are tender and offer a sweet and delicate flavor that works really nicely in this dish. I got this recipe from Michelin-starred chef Salil Mehta (NYC’s Laut Singapura) @munchies. The combination of flavors (sweet, spicy, sour, aromatic) is quite remarkable – make sure you get all that sauce with steamed or fried buns. You have to try this at least once – you won’t regret it! My family really enjoyed it – they only wished I had made more – 😋 Highly recommend!
MUSIC
Singapore Medley by Gima Band and friends •吉马乐团 (Instrumental)