Spicy Chili Crab

Ingredients

• 1 kg crabs • 250 g dried prawns • 2 spring onions (green ends only) • 2" ginger piece • 6 cloves garlic  • juice of 2 limes • 100 g dried red chillies • 1 egg • 6 onions • 5 tomatoes • 1 tsp sugar • 1 tsp dark soy sauce • Chinese parsley • 1 cup fish/chicken stock • 2 tbsp oil • saIt to taste

Method

Soak the dried red chillies for 10 minutes. Grind them into a paste. Wash, clean and cut the crabs.

Grind 5 onions, ginger and garlic into a paste. Grind the tomatoes.

Finely cut 1 onion.

Heat oil in a deep pan, fry the finely cut onion, add the onion and ginger-garlic paste, sauté well.

Add the tomato paste, salt and sugar, sauté and then add the chilli paste. Cook on low flame.

Add the lime juice and cook till the oil separates.

Add the crab pieces and dark soy sauce, cook till done.

Soak the dried prawns in water for 2-3 minutes, wash well and then squeeze out the water.

In a pan, fry the dried prawns crispy. Add the fried prawns to the crab gravy.

Beat the egg and scramble it. Add it to the crab dish and mix well, stir in chopped spring onions.

Garnish with chopped Chinese parsley.