South Indian · serves 2
Crab Masala
Messy, hands-on and worth it. Forty minutes for something you'd rarely cook at home.
Ingredients
- 1kg crab, cleaned and cracked
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 3 onions
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- 2 tbsp coriander seeds
- 6 dried red chillies
- 1 tsp fennel
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 25 curry leaves
- 4 tbsp coconut oil
Method
- Get the fishmonger to clean and crack the shells. Cracked shells let the masala get inside, which is the whole reason to make this.
- Dry roast the coriander, chillies, fennel, pepper and coconut, then grind to a paste.
- Coconut oil, curry leaves, onions till golden, ginger-garlic paste.
- Tomatoes and salt, cooked till the oil separates.
- Ground paste, fried 5 minutes, then 1.5 cups water.
- Crab in, covered, 15 minutes. It's done when the shells turn bright orange. Napkins, and a lot of them.