Chilli crab recipe

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4.5/ 5 stars 82 Votes
  • Cuisine: Singaporean

Alex Lee shares his popular Singapore chilli crab recipe with Food Safari's Maeve O'Meara.

For tasty variations on chilli crab, try Italian chef Alessandro Pavoni's crab recipe, or Vietnamese chef Luke Nguyen's crab recipe. Also, browse our seafood recipes for more gourmet inspiration.

Ingredients

Mud crab, well washed and chopped into sections
2 brown onions, peeled and roughly chopped
8 red chillies
Belacan, thumb size piece
½ tbsp vinegar
6 tbsp oil
1 tbsp tomato paste
400ml tomato puree
4 tbsp light soy sauce
½ tsp salt
4 tbsp sugar
Water
¼ tsp corn or potato starch, mixed in ½ cup of water
1 egg
Coriander leaves, to garnish

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Preparation

Blend onions and chillies in a food processor for 30 seconds.

Heat oil in a wok and add onion and chilli paste.

Add belacan and continue to cook until most of the liquid from the onions evaporates.

Add vinegar, tomato puree, tomato paste, sugar and salt.

Add tomato sauce, starch and light soy sauce.

Add crab pieces and continue to cook over high heat until shell turns red.

Add starch.

Add egg and stir through gently.

Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

If you enjoyed this Chilli crab recipe then browse more Singaporean recipes, seafood recipes, easy recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

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1. Harry's Singapore Chilli Crab   Sydney
2. Temasek   Parramatta
3. The Old Raffles Place   Collingwood
4. Singapore China Town Restaurant   Northbridge
5. Bismi's Gold an Fork   Melbourne
6. Ginger & Spice   Neutral Bay
7. Gingerboy   Melbourne
8. Katong Singaporean Restaurant   City Beach
9. Suria Cafe   Girrawheen
10. Raffles Room at Steventon Lodge   Tea Tree Gully

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20 Jan 2012 07:13 AEST
charles
cowra
harrys is best
have enjoyed harrys for over 30yrs first at eastlakes then in sydney city harry is from johore across the causway from singapore try his food next
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02 Jan 2012 09:29 AEST
Who Cares too
Melbourne
Yum
I agree with Who Cares? that what is important is that the flavour is a knockout. Every man and his dog would say theirs is the ONLY way to cook a dish, but I am willing to give any version of this recipe a taste!! I think some people just get too hoity and self-important about the way to cook a reciipe. And to Nicole I can only say, that using blue swimmer crabs would do me too:)
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13 Jun 2011 10:29 AEST
Ange
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Everyone is a critic
It is very Asian to criticise someone else's cooking, starting from mother-in-law then to the mother. Free world out there, you can say whatever you like but Alex had the gut to go on TV and share his version with everyone. Nothing precious about a recipy, individual taste means one can chop and change to suit one's taste. Angelyn, your pride is wounded that it is not your version, then come out with your version, don't take it too personally though. I'll try to be POSITIVE when I comment on
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07 Jun 2011 12:02 AEST
george
doncaster
singapore chilli crab
A total misnomer ! It should have been called tomato crab, but it has been bastardised for the non-Asians ! That is why non of the Thai and Indian restaurants in Aust are any good.
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15 Apr 2011 04:04 AEST
Who cares?
Melbourne
Leave it alone
Why be so snobbish about a recipe? 'Up to standard'? I've eaten this dish so many times, including a couple of dozen times in Singapore. Every family/vendor/restaurant has the 'authentic' version - they're all different! What's it matter as long as it tastes yum? Alex says you can up the chilli. This recipe sounds as 'Singapore' as any version I've eaten, seems if it's got; crab, chilli and tomato sauce then that's about as far as the consistency goes.
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28 Mar 2011 05:35 AEST
Araym
oxley
Singapore Chilli Crab
Angelyn Chan please provide your receipe of singapore style what is missing
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