How to make delicious and famous spicy chili crab in Singapore

Singapore’s cuisine is relatively diverse and unique, one of which is the famous spicy chili crab. So, seafood lovers, let’s go to the kitchen with lassho.edu.vn to show off your skills in making this delicious spicy chili crab.

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15 Minutes Processing
80 Minutes For
4 persons

Ingredients for Singapore Chilli Crab

Ingredients for Singapore Chilli Crab

• 2 sea crabs
• 1 chicken egg
• Pureed purple onion, minced garlic, ginger, chili
• 105g tapioca flour
• Pilot wine
• Chili paste
• Chicken seasoning powder, ketchup, chili sauce
• 150ml cooking oil
• Spices: Sugar, salt, ground pepper, monosodium glutamate

How to choose to buy delicious fresh crab

You should choose to buy crabs that are intact, move quickly, the skin between the elbows on the crab legs is dark pink or red, straight and shiny, and the crab meat is plentiful and firm.

In addition, you can check the quality of crab meat by gently squeezing the bib and the top of the thigh of the swim beam (under the crab’s shell). If you see the bib is hard, squeeze the top of the crab’s thigh and see that the crab is struggling, the crab is still strong, the meat is plenty, firm and delicious.

You should avoid buying crabs in the middle of the month (lunar calendar) because at this time crabs are in the season of changing shells, eating will not be delicious.

How to make Singapore chili crab

Step 1Preliminary processing of crabs

After buying crabs, first, you have to clean the crabs. You wash the crabs in clean water, cut off the bibs and crab shells, then cut the crabs in half. You collect the crab bricks to put in a separate cup, and the crab shells are rubbed with a brush to remove all the mud and dirt on the outside!

Preliminary processing of clean sea crabs, not fishy

Good tip : You can effectively remove the fishy smell of crabs by using a little white wine to wash the crabs!

Step 2Fried crab

First, you prepare 100g of tapioca starch and then dip all the previously prepared crabs through the tapioca. Then, you take some tapioca starch to sprinkle on the inside of the crab shell.

Next, you prepare a pan, pour in 100ml of cooking oil and turn on the medium heat. When the oil is hot, put all the crab pieces that have been soaked through the tapioca flour into the pan to fry. Wait about 30-40 seconds, then immediately remove the crab.

Coat the crabs with tapioca flour and fry them for 30-40 seconds

Good tip

You can test the temperature of the oil by touching the bottom of the pan with chopsticks, when you see bubbles, it means the oil is boiling and you can start frying the crabs.

During the frying process, you may get splashed with oil because the crab contains a lot of water. Treat it by sprinkling a little salt or adding a few chili peppers to limit the oil splash!

Step 3Make crab sauce

First, you put in a bowl 2 tablespoons cooking oil, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon chili paste, ½ teaspoon ground pepper, 1 teaspoon chicken seasoning powder and 2 teaspoons pilot wine. Then, you mix well until the mixture is completely dissolved.

Make crab sauce

Step 4Cook crab with sauce

You put a pan on the stove, put in 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, wait until the oil is hot, then start sauteing garlic, minced red onion and chopped ginger, stir well until fragrant.

Next, all the crab bricks have been removed before you put them into the pan, stir-fry well, then add 5 tablespoons chili sauce, 3 tablespoons ketchup and 200ml water. At this point, remember to stir well so that the spices are dissolved into the crab bricks!

When the mixture starts to boil , add 1 tablespoon of minced hot pepper with the spice sauce prepared in step 3 , stir well, and then add the fried crab. You turn on the heat and then continue to stir-fry until the seasoning of the marinade is evenly absorbed on the surface of the crab.

You continue to dissolve the remaining 5g of tapioca starch in 100ml of water and then pour the mixture into the crab pan . Then you beat 1 more egg to make the crab sauce mixture thick and greasy . Remember to stir constantly to combine the mixture without burning.

Season with a little more seasoning to taste and then turn off the heat when the crab sauce mixture is completely combined.

Cook the sauce and put the crab on the island

Finished product

You can enjoy chili crab with bread or fried dumplings

So the Singapore chili crab dish is done. The dish is delicious, nutritious, the crab meat is firm, rich, and evenly absorbed with the spices, plus a little bit of the spicy taste of chili. This chili crab dish is the perfect choice for the family on weekends together, right? You should enjoy the dish while it is still hot, if served with fried dumplings, bread or wine will be great!

Above is the recipe for delicious and famous spicy chili crab in Singapore. If you have not had the opportunity to return to visit Singapore, please show off your talent in making this dish to help you feel nostalgic for this land!

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