Story: Stuart’s Singaporean Chilli Crab
Airdate: Ep 10, 7 July 2019
Presenter: Stuart Laws

Feeling like a winter warmer with a kick? These Singaporean Chilli Crabs will warm the cockles of your heart. Stuart shows you how to cook up this delicious dish with in-season ingredients!

Ingredients

2 x Blue Manna Crabs
125mls x Peanut Oil
1 knob of fresh ginger
3 x cloves of fresh garlic
60gm Sliced red chillies
2 x sliced spring onions
60mls x Tomato Sauce
60mls x Chilli Sauce
1tbsp x Coconut Sugar
1tbsp x Light Soy Sauce
1 x Egg, lightly beaten

Method:

• Remove the shells from the crabs and discard the fibrous tissue under the shell.
• Divide each crab into four portions, breaking each body in half and separating the claws from the body, leaving the legs attached.
• Heat the peanut oil in a wok or large heavy-based frying pan over medium–high heat.
• Add the crab pieces and cook, turning regularly, until they change colour on all sides. Remove from the wok and put to one side.
• Reduce the heat to low and cook the ginger, garlic and chilli, stirring constantly, until they are cooked but not brown then add the spring onion.
• Mix together the tomato and chilli sauces, sugar, soy sauce and salt
• Add the sauce to the wok and bring to the boil.
• Reduce the heat to low, return the crab pieces to the wok and allow to simmer in the sauce for 3 minutes, adding a little water if the sauce reduces too much
• Fold through the beaten egg.
• Serve with white rice

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