Fried Crab with Chilli Paste

Name: Fried Crab with Chilli Paste
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 2 spring onions, sliced; 2 stalks of celery, sliced; 2 teaspoons light soy sauce; 1 teaspoon sugar; 2 tablespoons chilli oil; 2 tablespoons chilli paste; 3 eggs, beaten; 2 shallots, chopped; 1–2 red chilli peppers, seeded and sliced; 2 tablespoons vegetable oil; 4 live soft-shelled blue crabs or 450 g (1lb) cooked crabmeat; 4 live soft-shelled blue crabs or 450 g (1lb) cooked crabmeat; 2 cloves garlic, crushed

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Far Flung Floyd

By Keith Floyd

Published 1994

About

The egg mixture in this dish makes a pleasing change. Be sure to make a fairly thin omelette mix, so that it coats the crabs like a batter.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 live soft-shelled blue crabs or 450 g (

Asia
Thailand
Fish course
Pescatarian
South East Asia

Method

Heat the oil in a large, lidded sauté or frying pan. Add the crabs, garlic and shallots and cook until the top of the crab shells and the claws have turned red. If using crabmeat heat it through for 1-2 minutes. Cover with the lid and finish cooking. Beat together the eggs, chilli paste, chilli oil, sugar and soy sauce. Pour the egg mixture over the crabs and cook until the eggs have set softly