Name: Stir-Fried Spanner Crab Omelette
Yield: Serves six as part of a shared meal
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 100 g beansprouts; 150 ml peanut or vegetable oil; 200 g spanner crab meat; 1 tablespoon palm sugar; 50 g snowpea sprouts; 15 Chinese yellow chives, washed and halved; 5 x 55 g eggs; 3 tablespoons palm sugar; 2 tablespoons fish sauce; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 4 tablespoons oyster sauce; 150 ml Chicken Stock; 1 tablespoon fish sauce

Preparation info

Serves
six
as part of a shared meal

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rockpool

By Neil Perry

Published 1998

About

This is a Rockpool classic and is usually made in a single serve as an entrée. I have given a recipe for a larger omelette that works well on a shared table. The texture of the crab, egg and beansprouts, and the perfume of the sesame oil make one of the greatest taste and texture treats imaginable. The crispy exterior, melting interior, and the crunchiness of the beansprouts all work so well together. Make sure the oil is very hot and smoking so that the eggs do not soak up the oil. This om