Singapore

Black pepper crab

Name: Black pepper crab
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: 1.5 kg mud crabs cleaned and cut (about 400 g meat) crab; 2 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 4 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp coarsely crushed black pepper; 6 cloves chopped garlic; 4 sliced shallots; 2 sprigs curry leaves; 1 sliced fresh red chillies (fresh red chiles); 2 tbsp oyster sauce; 1 tbsp dark soy sauce; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tsp sugar

Fiery black pepper, butter and crab you eat with your hands. Messy, loud, worth it.

45 minTime

20 gProtein each

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Black pepper crab.

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Ingredients

Crab1.5 kg mud crabs, cleaned and cut (about 400 g meat)

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)2 tbsp

Butter4 tbsp

Black pepper2 tbsp, coarsely crushed

Garlic6 cloves, chopped

Shallots4, sliced

Curry leaves2 sprigs

Fresh red chillies (fresh red chiles)1, sliced

Oyster sauce2 tbsp

Dark soy sauce1 tbsp

Soy sauce1 tbsp

Sugar2 tsp

Method

5 steps

1Crack the claws lightly with the back of a cleaver.
2Fry the crab in oil until the shells turn bright red, then lift out.
3Melt butter and fry pepper, garlic, shallots, curry leaves and chilli until fragrant.
4Add sauces, sugar and a splash of water, return the crab and toss.
5Cover and cook, tossing, until the crab is cooked through.

Serve it like this

Pile onto a big platter with sauce scraped over, plus crab crackers, finger bowls with lemon and a stack of napkins.

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