Crab Butter garlic

Ingredients:

1 whole crab

8 Sliced shallots

6 tsp Butter

8 flakes sliced Garlic

¼ cup Lemon juice

1/4 cup Stock

A sprig curry leaves

½ Mustard seeds

½ tsp Turmeric powder

Salt to taste

1 tsp freshly Ground pepper

A few chopped Coriander leaves

1 tsp Rice paste (optional)

Method:

Chop the crab into pieces, discarding the top shell. Marinate the crab with salt and turmeric and set aside for 15 minutes. Melt butter in a pan, add the mustard seeds,curry leaves, shallots,garlic and saute until onion becomes light brown. Add the marinated crab pieces, stock, crushed pepper and simmer  for 8 minutes until the crab is cooked. Add 1 tsp rice paste and stir to get thick gravy. When the crab is done, turn-off the heat,top with 1 tsp butter and lime juice. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Crab Curry

Ingredients:

1 cup water

6 big size crabs

8 red chillies whole

1 tblsp tamarind pulp

1/2 coconut scraped

1 tsp garam masala powder

8 cloves garlic

1 tblsp oil

1 big size onion sliced

1/4 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp cumin seeds

Method:

Boil the crabs and clean them, only the body and claws are used (the crab claws can be lightly cracked and the body cut into half, to facilitate eating). Grind the scraped coconut with red chillies, cumin seeds, turmeric powder and garlic to a fine paste. Heat up oil on medium heat up and stir fry cut onion. Stir-fry for one minute. Mix in ground spices and stir-fry for a minute. Mix in tamarind pulp, salt to taste and crabs. Simmer (boil slowly at low temperature) on low heat, covered for 15 minutes. Mix in little more water if necessary and stir fry till done. Serve hot with rice or bhakri.