Stir-Fried Crab Omelette

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