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Guiding Aspiring Entrepreneur Cooks: Chili Crab Recipe

Ingredients:

  1. 500g crabs
  2. 4 tbsp tomato sauce
  3. 1/2 rice bowl of water
  4. 100g ground peanuts
  5. 3 tbsp cooking oil
  6. 1/2 tsp. salt
  7. pinch of pepper

Rempah:

  1. 2 tbsp chopped tomato
  2. 2 tbsp ground garlic
  3. 1 tbsp ground ginger
  4. 1 tbsp ground dried chili
  5. 1 tsp ground fresh chili
  6. 1 tbsp ground buah keras
  7. 2 tbsp ground small onions

Method:

  1. You can either freeze to kill the crabs or use a sharp end of the knife and poke in between the eyes.  Separate the shell from the body, chop off the 2 pinzers and take out the gills, organs and feet. Wash the crab pieces clean. Chop the body into 4 pieces and use back of knife crush the 2 pincers.
  2. Heat the frying pan and pour in the cooking oil and fry the rempah together until there is a rich aroma for 6 mins.  Add the ground peanut, tomato sauce, 1/2 bowl of water and salt and fry for another 3 min.
  3. Add the crabs and stir in-between timing of 10 min.
  4. serve with fragrant white rice.
  5. Serves 4
  6. Preparation time: 45 min
  7. Cooking time: 20 min

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