Stir-Fried Crab Omelette

Name: Stir-Fried Crab Omelette
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons peanut oil; 1 teaspoon shao xing; ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper; 1 teaspoon finely chopped coriander leaves; 2 teaspoons light soy sauce; 200 g cooked and picked crabmeat; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger; 4 green bird’s eye chillies, seeded and chopped; 2 shallots, cut into fine rounds; 4 tablespoons oyster sauce; ¼ cup peanut oil; 4 eggs; 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Asian

By Neil Perry

Published 2000

About

A very simple omelette that goes really well with some rice and a little oyster sauce. The forerunner to the famous rockpool crab omelette, this is one of the dishes of my childhood.

Ingredients

4 eggs
3 tablespoons peanut oil
4 green bird’s eye chillies, seeded and chopped

Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk lightly. Heat the 3 tablespoons of oil in a wok until just smoking. Add the chillies, shallots, garlic and ginger and fry until fragrant, then pour into the bowl containing the eggs and stir well. Add the crab, salt, pepper, shao xing, soy, coriander and sesame o