How To Make Chili Crab

crab

🥗Healthier: shrimp

💰Cheaper: chicken

Shrimp provides a similar texture while chicken is more budget-friendly.

chili paste

🥗Healthier: sambal oelek

💰Cheaper: homemade chili sauce

Sambal oelek offers a fresh flavor, while homemade sauce can reduce costs.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Coconut oil adds a unique flavor and is healthier.

egg

🥗Healthier: flaxseed meal

💰Cheaper: aquafaba

Flaxseed meal can bind ingredients while being plant-based.

Heat oil in a wok over medium-high heat and saute curry leaves and dried chili paste together until oil splits from paste, stirring constantly to avoid burning.

Add turmeric, shallots, garlic, candlenuts and galangal. Stir until all the liquid dries out or until the oil splits from the spice again.

Add water, tomato, tamarind pulp, coconut milk, salt and sugar, mix well and add crab, stir and cover wok with a lid for 10 minutes.

Remove lid and move crabs into a bowl, leaving the sauce in the wok.

Gently pour beaten eggs in and mix quickly to create egg ribbons.

Add chinese celery and spring onion and mix well.

Pour sauce over crab and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

Cooking Techniques

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