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| Freshly caught Mud Crab |
Mud crab is another delicacy that most people look for when they visiting coastal or fisherman settlement. Freshly caught mud crab with a good size may reach up to MYR60/- especially if it is female and laden with roe. Having the skill to locate and catch will ensure that I have a fresh crab every time I back in my hometown . The dish can be vary but what I like most will be Spicy Creamy Butter Mud crab...
Ingredients
- 5 med sized mud crab (roughly half a kilo, gutted and cleaned )
- 100g of butter
- 1 cup cooking oil
- 1/2 cup of creamer
- 1/2 cup corn flour
- 5 chilies, chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- Ginger, approx thumb sized, finely sliced
- Salt, pepper and seasoning as appropriate
- 2 eggs (separate yellow for egg floss and white for coating)
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| Mud Crab, garnished with egg floss |
Method
- Frying the mud crab. Seasons mud crab as your liking, thinly coated with corn flour and egg white. Deep fry on high heat for 5-8 min until the shell turn red. Strained from excessive oil and put aside.
- Preparing egg floss. In frying pan, melt 50g of butter in heated 1/4 cup of cooking oil. Once butter fully melt and cooking oil hot enough, add in yellow egg with constant stirring motion. It will be bubbly. Keep eyes on egg floss. Removed and strained from excessive oil when it starts to turn golden brown. Put aside for the moment.
- Combining the dish. In frying wok, melt remaining butter. Once melted and the wok is hot enough, add in chilies, garlic and ginger. Saute the ingredients until it give out aromatic aroma. Add on creamer into the mix and let simmers 2-3 min. Tastes and seasons well. Lastly, add in fried mud crab and fold in for 5-6 min so that the butter incorporated into the crab. Let simmer for another 2-3 min.
- Serving. Put the dish on to the plate and drizzle the butter on top of the crab. Garnish with egg floss on top. Served while still warm. Best eaten as it is or served with rice.
You won't get any messier when you having mud crabs for lunch. Ignoring sense of civilization, it is best devoured using a pair of clean hand and sturdy set of teeth.
