Black Pepper Crab

Black Pepper Crab

ingredients
best is sri lanka mud crabs
2 tlb sp butter
2 shallots - thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic - finely chopped
a bit of ginger - pounded
1 tlb sp salted soya beans - mashed
2 tlb sp dried prawns - roasted n ground
2 tbsp black pepper - ground coarsely
1 tlb sp white pepper
1/2 cup curry leaves
10 red bird's eye chilli
2 tlb sp black soya sauce
3 tbsp sugar
2 tlb sp oyster sauce
optional - deep fry some pepper corns n gound a bit
spring onion for garnish

method
1. Coat crabs with corn flour n black pepper
2. Deep fry till 3/4 cook n drain
3. Heat work , melt butter - fry garlic, shallots, ginger
4. Stir in salted soya beans, dried prawns, black pepper, curry leaves & chillies
5. Saltate till fragrant, add crab, stir again & add a bit of water if its too dry.
6. Cover wok for a while. Cook 5-10 mins tilld done.