In the realm of seafood cuisine, where flavors dance upon the taste buds, there exists a dish that captivates the senses and tantalizes the palate - chilli crab. Originating from the vibrant city of Singapore, chilli crab has garnered international acclaim for its unique blend of sweet, spicy, and savory flavors. As you embark on a culinary adventure to prepare this iconic dish, let us guide you through the intricacies of selecting the freshest ingredients, mastering the art of sauce preparation, and unraveling the secrets to creating an unforgettable chilli crab experience that will leave your guests craving for more.
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
SINGAPORE CHILLI CRAB
This low fat, spicy crab dish is a versatile street-food style recipe that can be adapted to your liking. Serve with rice or steamed bao buns
Provided by Barney Desmazery
Categories Dinner, Lunch, Main course
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- The crab must be prepared before stir-frying (you can ask your fishmonger to do this). This involves removing the claws, the main shell, discarding the dead man's fingers, then cutting the body into four pieces, and cracking the claws and the legs so the sauce can get through to the meat.
- Heat the oil in a large wok and sizzle the garlic, ginger and chopped chillies for 1 min or until fragrant. Add the ketchup, soy and 100ml water, and stir to combine. Throw in the crab, turn up the heat and stir-fry for 3-5 mins or until the crab is piping hot and coated in the sauce. Stir through most of the coriander, spring onions and sliced chilli.
- Use tongs to arrange the crab on a serving dish, pour over the sauce from the pan and scatter over the remaining coriander, spring onions and sliced chilli. Serve with rice or bao buns, and a lot of napkins.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 315 calories, Fat 9 grams fat, SaturatedFat 1 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 13 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 14 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 45 grams protein, Sodium 4.5 milligram of sodium
SINGAPORE CHILLI CRAB RECIPE BY TASTY
The hype around Singapore Chilli Crab is well-deserved. Discover it for yourself, with this tasty recipe.
Provided by VisitSingapore
Categories Lunch
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Prepare the crab by removing the base flap, then pull off the head and clear out the cavity. Keep the head in a bowl. Moving to the body of the crab, remove the gills, which are an opaque brown colour on both sides of the crab. Using a sharp knife, cut the crab in half down the middle, then divide into six parts. Using the knife, crack the crab legs open to allow the flavours to enhance while cooking. Add to the bowl with the head then set aside.
- In a food processor, add shallots, ginger, red chillies, garlic, ketchup, and shrimp paste, then pulse until it comes together and forms a paste.
- Heat oil in a wok over medium heat, then once it comes up to temperature fry add the chilli paste and cook for five minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the crab pieces into the wok and stir until they are fully coated. Give the crab time to start turning orange, approximately 5 minutes.
- Add the tomato puree, chicken stock, rice wine vinegar, sweet chilli sauce, soy sauce and palm sugar, then stir until completely mixed. The crab should be fully orange by now. Add a lid on top and allow the mixture to simmer for 15 minutes.
- Remove the crab legs and head, and plate up on a shallow dish.
- Add butter, spring onions, and egg. Let the egg sit for a minute before stirring, then give the sauce a quick stir. The sauce should thicken up quickly.
- Pour the sauce on top of the crab and garnish with a few sprigs of coriander.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 715 calories, Carbohydrate 41 grams, Fat 47 grams, Fiber 2 grams, Protein 32 grams, Sugar 23 grams
SINGAPORE CHILLI CRAB
Recipe video above. Here's arguably the most famous crab recipe in the world: Singapore Chilli Crab! For the pinnacle of the experience, make this using fresh, live mud crab that you clean and cut yourself, or ask the fish shop to cut the crab for you (make sure they save the tomalley "crab mustard", Note 8). Be prepared to get messy eating it (half the fun!) - and to be surprised at how quick it is to make! Flavour: The sauce is a bit spicy but not excessively (Note 2 for adjustment). It is supposed to be a bit sweet, vinegary and intensely savoury. It gets massive flavour from the combination of crab juices, tomalley ("crab mustard", Note 8), belachan shrimp paste, and the soy bean paste! The traditional sauce has bits of egg ribbson in it, and includes ketchup - yes, really!Serves 3 - 4 as a meal with rice and some vegetables.
Provided by Nagi
Categories Main
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Prepare crab: See separate tutorial for how to clean and cut a whole crab. You will end up with: 1) Crab pieces; and 2) Reserved tomalley ("crab mustard", Note 8) and crab juices in a separate bowl. This is a key "secret ingredient" used to flavour the sauce.
- Chilli paste: Place ingredients in a small food processor or Nutribullet. Blitz until it's a fairly smooth paste.
- Sauté belachan: Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add belachan and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. It will smell pungent (to put it mildly), but have faith! It will mellow and transform!
- Cook off chilli paste: Add chilli paste and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes.
- Add tomato passata: Add tomato passata and cook, stirring regularly, for 4 minutes.
- Add remaining sauce ingredients: Add sweet chilli sauce, ketchup, water and stir to combine.
- Add claws: Add the crab claws first (they take longer to cook), stir to coat in sauce. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to simmer. Cover with a lid and cook 3 minutes.
- Add "crab mustard" and juices: Add the reserved tomalley ("crab mustard") along with all the crab juices.
- Add remaining crab pieces: Remove lid, add remaining crab pieces and any juices that have collected in this bowl. Stir pieces to coat, put the lid back on and cook for 7 minutes.
- Remove crab: Use tongs to remove crab pieces into a bowl.
- Egg ribbons: With the sauce still on the stove, and while stirring in a circular motion, pour the egg in a thin stream into the middle of the pot. This will create little ribbons of egg in the sauce that is traditional and look lovely.
- Vinegar: Stir in vinegar.
- Return crab: Return the crab pieces into the pot, gently stir to coat in the sauce.
CHILI CRAB
Provided by Food Network
Time 45m
Yield 4 to 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- In a casserole or large pot of boiling salted water, add the crabs and cook them for about 1 minute, or until no longer moving. Drain and set aside until cool enough to handle.
- To clean the crabs pull off top shells; pull and twist off each apron; remove gills. With sharp knife cut crabs into quarters, rinse and drain.
- In mortor and pestle or small food processor pound or process chiles, garlic, shallots and ginger with a little oil if necessary.
- Combine all sauce ingredients.
- Heat a wok over moderately high heat. Add 2 tablespoons oil and heat until hot. Add chili and garlic paste and stir-fry 1 minute. Add crabs and stir-fry 2 to 3 minutes or until shells turn red. Add sauce ingredients, bring to boil and simmer, covered, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer crabs to serving dish.
- Bring sauce in wok to a boil. Stir cornstarch mixture and add to wok. Simmer until thickened. Gradually add eggs in a stream, whisking, and cook for 1 minute. Pour sauce over crabs and garnish with scallion.
SINGAPORE-STYLE CHILI CRABS
Provided by Tyler Florence
Categories appetizer
Time 17m
Yield 4 appetizer servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Pull the main shell off the crab and discard it. Remove the gray gills and the soft insides. Cut the body in half and then cut between each leg. Crack the legs and claws with the back of the knife or a hammer and set aside.
- In a bowl mix the ketchup, chili paste, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and tamarind paste; thin it with 1/4 cup water and set aside. Pour the oil into a wok or large skillet over high heat. Add the scallion, ginger, garlic, 1/2 the chile, and cilantro and cook for 1 minute. Add the crab and stir-fry for another minute. Pour in the sauce and continue cooking, stirring often, until the crab has absorbed the sauce and the sauce has thickened, about 5 minutes.
- Put onto a platter and garnish with the rest of the chile and cilantro. Serve with plenty of napkins!
FATTY CRAB'S CHILI CRAB
Matt Lee and Ted Lee snatched this recipe for chili crab from chef Zakary Pelaccio before the first Fatty Crab opened in New York. There are now locations in St. John and Hong Kong. With the restaurant, Pelaccio pays homage to a crab joint he frequented during a seven-month cooking stint in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This recipe calls for blue crabs and spices them up with chili sauce, garlic and ginger among much else. Serve with crab picks, cold beer and many napkins.
Provided by Matt Lee And Ted Lee
Categories dinner, project, main course
Time 20m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- In a large bowl, whisk the chili sauce, soy sauce, sugar, rice-wine vinegar, tomato paste and sesame oil with 1 1/4 cups water and reserve.
- Place the shallots, garlic, ginger and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until the mixture becomes a smooth paste. In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons water.
- Heat the peanut oil in a wok over high heat, and when it shimmers, add the shallot paste and fry for 30 seconds until very fragrant. Add the crabs and 1/3 of the chili sauce, and when the liquid simmers, continue to cook for 2 minutes, shaking the pan to cover the crabs with the sauce.
- Add the remaining chili sauce to the pan, and when it reaches a simmer, turn the heat to medium-low, cover the pan and continue to simmer vigorously about 8 minutes. Stir in the cornstarch paste, and when the liquid in the pan thickens, turn off the heat. Add the egg yolk and stir again to combine. Divide the crabs and sauce among 4 plates, sprinkle with the chopped scallions and serve immediately, with crab picks and many napkins.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 188, UnsaturatedFat 4 grams, Carbohydrate 22 grams, Fat 6 grams, Fiber 3 grams, Protein 11 grams, SaturatedFat 1 gram, Sodium 1001 milligrams, Sugar 10 grams
SINGAPOREAN CHILE CRAB
This recipe is well known in Singapore and is a great hit with tourists and locals alike! It is really spicy!!!
Provided by COOKIE1
Categories World Cuisine Recipes Asian
Time 35m
Yield 3
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Wash crabs and separate claws from body. Crack the shell and cut the body into 4 to 6 pieces.
- In a large bowl, mix together ketchup, water, cornstarch, and soy sauce.
- Heat skillet and the oil, stir in garlic and shallots. Fry the garlic and shallots for 1 to 2 minutes before adding the chili. Fry another 2 minutes. Add crab pieces and fry until they turn red, about 4 minutes.
- Stir sauce mixture into the skillet until the crabs are well coated. Cover the skillet and let simmer on high heat, for 7 minutes or until the shells turn bright red.
- Remove cover and stir in the lime juice. Stir in beaten egg until it is fully cooked. Turn the heat off and stir in green onions.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 516.9 calories, Carbohydrate 29.7 g, Cholesterol 173.3 mg, Fat 32.9 g, Fiber 3.1 g, Protein 29 g, SaturatedFat 4.9 g, Sodium 771.4 mg, Sugar 14.6 g
SINGAPORE CHILI CRABS
Living in San Francisco, I've had more than my fair share of crab, prepared in more ways than I can remember. I've never enjoyed it more than in this Singapore-style chili crabs recipe. Just be sure to have lots of napkins around. My friends in Singapore tell me they serve this with at least twice the amount of sauce, and a type of fried roll to soak up the goodness with. So, if you want to rock the chili crab like a Singaporean, then you should probably double the sauce ingredients!
Provided by Chef John
Categories World Cuisine Recipes Asian
Time 30m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Whisk ketchup, chicken broth, egg, soy sauce, chile-garlic sauce, oyster sauce, tamarind paste, fish sauce, and palm sugar together in a bowl.
- Stir shallots, garlic, oil, ginger, and serrano pepper together in a pot over medium-high heat. Saute until sizzling, about 2 minutes. Add crab to pot, cover the pot with a lid, and shake until crab is completely coated in shallot mixture. Remove lid and cook and stir until heated through, about 3 minutes.
- Pour ketchup mixture into pot, reduce heat to medium, and cook and stir until sauce thickens and crab is hot about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in cilantro and green onions.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 221.9 calories, Carbohydrate 18.4 g, Cholesterol 94.8 mg, Fat 9 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 17.7 g, SaturatedFat 1.6 g, Sodium 1575.1 mg, Sugar 9.9 g
CHILLI CRAB
Got this out of the paper advertising a crab festival in 1996. My neighbor loves this for the sauce (hubby gets the crabs), she likes to use it with chicken, fish or beef (dices the meat and simmers in the sauce till cooked and serves over rice with vegetables). I serve it with rice to pour the sauce over and some vegetables to make a complete meal.
Provided by ImPat
Categories Crab
Time 30m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- If crabs live, put in freezer for 10 minutes to stun.
- Remove back shell and clean spongy bits and brown stuff, clean in water.
- Cut in half lengthwise.
- Remove claws from body and hit with blunt side of a cleaver to crack in several places.
- Cut the halves into two or three pieces leaving legs attached.
- Pound ginger and chili until they form a paste, or zap in the food processor or blender.
- Mix soy sauce, sugar, water (or stock), tomato sauce and chili sauce (if using) in a small jug.
- Put oil in a large hot pan or wok and over a medium heat fry ginger/chili mix for a few minutes.
- Add the crab pieces and stir fry at a higher heat till crab pieces turn red.
- Add liquid mixture and bring back up to the boil, add sesame oil, lower heat to medium and cover with lid for a few minutes giving the occasional stir.
- Garnish with sliced spring onion.
- Don't forget the finger bowls and a bowl in the middle for the shells and lots of paper serviettes/napkins.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 348.9, Fat 13.9, SaturatedFat 1.8, Cholesterol 147.5, Sodium 1072, Carbohydrate 9.7, Fiber 0.9, Sugar 5.7, Protein 45
COCONUT CHILI CRAB
Another way to use those beautiful crabs we caught. Don't be put off by the seemingly long list of instructions and don't forget Aussie tablespoons are actually 4 teaspoons.
Provided by JustJanS
Categories Crab
Time 40m
Yield 2-4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Lift top hard shell from crabs and use fingers to scrape insides. Wash, then split in half.
- Heat the oil in a large wok over high heat then stir-fry the crab pieces in batches until they turn pinky red. Remove and set aside.
- In the same wok, stir fry garlic, ginger and chili for 1 minute.
- Add the juice, waer, sauces and paste and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Blend in the coconut cream.
- Bring to the boil then return the crab to the wok.
- Simmer covered, for 4-5 minutes, adding a little water if the sauce reduces too much.
- Stir in the coriander and onions, then serve at once over steamed rice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 714.1, Fat 58.3, SaturatedFat 41, Cholesterol 32.8, Sodium 1246.4, Carbohydrate 39.5, Fiber 8.8, Sugar 23.2, Protein 17.8
Tips for Making the Best Chilli Crab:
- Choose the Right Crabs: Select live crabs with a heavy weight for their size, indicating a full body of meat. Ensure they are fresh and active.
- Prepare the Crabs Properly: Clean and wash the crabs thoroughly. Break them into halves or quarters, depending on their size, for even cooking.
- Use Fresh Ingredients: Opt for fresh ingredients, especially the aromatics like garlic, ginger, and shallots, as they provide intense flavor.
- Don't Skimp on the Sauce: The sauce is the star of the dish, so take your time to create a flavorful and well-balanced sauce.
- Cook in Stages: Cook the crab in stages; first, deep-fry or steam it to preserve its natural sweetness, then add it to the sauce for additional flavor.
- Garnish Generously: Garnish the dish with spring onions, coriander, and fried shallots for an aromatic and visually appealing presentation.
Conclusion:
Chilli crab is a delectable dish that combines the sweet and succulent flavors of crab with a spicy and tangy sauce. By following the tips mentioned above, you can create an unforgettable chilli crab dish that will impress your family and friends. Experiment with different variations of the recipe to find your perfect balance of flavors, and enjoy this iconic Singaporean dish to its fullest. Happy cooking!
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