Crab Curry

 
Crab is one of my most favorite non vegetarian dishes. Growing up in a town close to the Bay of Bengal, we had no shortage of fresh seafood. In fact, my mom used to make crab atleast once in every 2 weeks.Crab can be made into delightful dishes in various forms and recipes. Crab Curry has to rank amongst the top contenders there. And this is another one of my sister’s (Suja) recipe and as usual it turned out to be a mind blowing entree. If you have a love for crab meat, I welcome you to try this recipe and let me know how it turned out. If you made your own modifications to it, also share it with me. After all cooking is part experimentation + part personalization (kai pakkuvam in Tamil). 
Ingredients:

• Crab : 2 pounds (I used King crab legs)
• Onions : 1 (medium and finely chopped)
• Garlic : 5 (pressed)
•  Dry red chilies: 5
• Coconut : 1/4 cup 
• Cumin : 1 tbsp
• Peppercorns :1/2 tbsp
• Fennel seeds : /4 tsp
• Cinnamon : 1/2? 
• Tomatoes : 1/2 cup
• Curry leaves : 5- 6
• Turmeric powder : 1/4 tsp
• Oil : 3 tbsp

Method Of Prepartion:

1. Wash the crab and steam them for 10 minutes in medium heat. If you are using already cooked crab you still have to steam for 5 minutes. 
2. After that remove from heat (if you like crab with shell skip this step) remove the shell.
3. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan, add the onions, fry them till it becomes translucent.
4. Fry the red chilies, peppercorns, fennel seeds, cinnamon and cumin. 
5. Grind them with coconut into a thick paste.
6. Now add the pressed garlic, little salt and the above ground masala and mix it well.
7. Now add the tomatoes, curry laeves, turmeric powder and the required remaining salt into it.
8. Let them cook  for about 4-5 minutes in medium heat with lid covered.
9. When the masala smell goes off, add the crab meat (removed from shell) gently mix it with the masalas and add water to your liking for gravy consistency (about 1/2 cup) or you can just make it dry. Finally add a tbsp of oil on top of  it.
10. Let them boil for about 8 minutes in medium heat.
11. After that remove from heat and garnish it with coriander leaves.

Serve it hot and enjoy!

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   Happy Cook says:

   March 16, 2009 at 3:50 am

   WOw the curry looks so delicious, here crab is reall expensive, i would love to eat the crab meat just with mayo too in a snadwihch.

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   Cynthia says:

   March 16, 2009 at 10:50 pm

   Ouuuu, I like that your crab curry is all meat and no bones (though I love bones) Yum!

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   Homecooked says:

   March 17, 2009 at 10:25 pm

   Love crabs! This looks good!

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   Nate says:

   March 19, 2009 at 2:26 pm

   That is a great combination of awesome flavors. I am always on the lookout for new ways to enjoy crab.

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   premalatha says:

   June 15, 2009 at 6:18 am

   Avoide buying crabs before and after a week of full moon day, since the crabs avoide light much and end up with out much food at those days, so the meat is not fleshy.

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