Chargrilled crab or lobster

Name: Chargrilled crab or lobster
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 1 tablespoon lime juice; 1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 7 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 5 small, fresh, hot red chillies, finely chopped; 2 fat crabs or lobsters, each weighing 300–400 g/11–14 oz; 2 fat crabs or lobsters, each weighing 300–400 g/11–14 oz

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keith Floyd's Thai Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 2006

About

Ingredients

2 fat crabs or lobsters, each weighing 300–400 g/11–14 oz
7

Asia
Europe
Spain
Thailand
Japan
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Wash the crabs or lobsters and place on a hot charcoal grill or barbeque until red all over and cooked.
Remove the shell (and the stomach sac and gills in the case of the crab, these you discard) and chop into pieces. In either case, crack the claws. Arrange on a serving dish.
In a spice grinder, whiz the garlic, chillies, lime juice and fish sauce to se