Yesterday evening I went to a farmers market that was near to my home to get vegetables..There I saw this soft shell crab and I planned to cook that for the dinner… but I don’t have any idea about cleaning and preparing it….So I bought only 2 small soft shell crabs and wanted to experiment it…. After coming home I googled how to clean soft shell crab and got a video on it. That showed clearly how to clean my soft shell crab….
I also got this recipe from here and made some changes…. Me and my husband had it with rice and a spicy curry. mmmmmmm it tasted too good. Here is the procedure for how I made it..
Ingredients
| soft shell crab | 2 |
| shallots | 5 |
| green chilli (medium size) | 1 |
| pepper powder | 1 tsp |
| cumin powder | 1/2 tsp |
| ginger garlic | 1 tsp |
| pasteoil ( I used corn oil) | 2 or 3 tsp (as requred for frying) |
| salt | as required |
- Clean the crab very neatly (Refer the link above) and keep it aside.
- Now grind 5 shallots, 1 green chilli, 1 tsp pepper, 1/2 tsp cumin powder, 1 tsp ginger garlic paste and the salt as requred in a mixer (mixie).
- In a frying pan pour 3 tsp of oil and saute the grinded mix for some 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add the crabs into the pan containing sauted mix and coat the crab with the mix. close the pan with a lid and cook it for 3 minutes.
- Remove the lid cook the other side of the crab (do not close the pan). Cook until it is well cooked on both sides…
