Ingredients
- Crabs – 5 (big size)
- Onion – 2 (chopped nicely)
- Green Chillies – 6
- Grated coconut – 1/2 cup
- Tamarind pulp – 2 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
- Cloves – 2
- Fennel – 1/2 tsp
- Ginger garlic paste – 1.5 tsp
- Cumin Seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Garlic – 8 cloves
- Salt for taste
- Oil – 3 tsp
- Curry leaves – a handful
Method
- In kadai add the crabs, 1 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp turmeric and boil them, till they become soft.
- Break the bigger claws and take out the flesh from it and keep aside in a bowl. The body and other claws can be put as it is.
- Meanwhile, grind the scraped coconut, green chillies, cumin seeds, garlic to a fine paste.
- In another kadai, heat up oil on medium flame and add the cloves, fennel.
- When they start spluttering, add the finely chopped onions, ginger garlic paste and curry leaves and fry well.
- Mix the ground paste, salt, crab body and smaller claws, tamarind paste and the remaining turmeric powder and 1/2 cup water and cook till the raw smell of ground paste goes off.
- Now add the flesh to the curry, stir for 1 minute and switch off the stove.
- Serve hot the crab curry.
Never tried crab curry. Nice one.
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