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Peter Evans

Chilli Crab


You can substitute the mud crabs with; blue swimmer crabs, marrons, Moreton bay or Balmain bugs, prawns, lobster.

Ingredients

  • 2 mud crab
  • 3 tablespoons oil
  • 4 chopped garlic cloves
  • 2 chopped banana chilli's
  • 2 tablespoons julienne ginger
  • ½ cup tomato sauce
  • ¼ cup ling hams chilli sauce or sweet chilli sauce
  • ½ cup water
  • 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
  • ½ cup chopped green onion
  • ½ cup mixed vietnamese mint leaves and coriander leaf
  • 1 tablespoon chopped coriander root
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 3 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 30 cherry tomatoes cut in half

Method

  1. Freeze the crabs until they are killed
  2. Cut into segments
  3. Crack the claws
  4. Heat oil in a wok
  5. Add garlic, chilli, ginger & coriander root and cook until fragrant
  6. Add the crabs and toss
  7. Add tomato sauce, chilli sauce, water, hoi sin sauce, fish sauce, sugar and salt.
  8. Stir to combine the ingredients, bring to the boil.
  9. Cover and allow to simmer/steam for about 10 minutes
  10. Add in the green onions, cherry tomatoes and herbs and serve with Jasmine rice, and crab pickers and bibs
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Delicious seafood recipes as cooked by Peter Evans at the 2006 Darwin Seafood Festival

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  • Nick289
    7 days ago

    Bloody great!!! Have this alot up here in F.N.Q! just wanted to say for a touch of sweetness throw in a big beautiful ripe Mango it takes this to a 5/5 rating!!!

  • Jo
    26 days ago

    Absolutely scrumptious, not enough adjectives to describe how beautiful this dish truly is. Thank you Dave for sharing your recipe with Pete who lovingly shared it with all of us. Spreading the love of food, good food. The memory of eating this fuels waking up to and living each day. Kudos :)

  • tim
    28 days ago

    this is also awesome with fish!!

  • Delwyn Napier
    2 months ago

    OMG! This is without doubt the tastiest chilli crab ever. No mud crabs in Denmark (WA) so used 8 blue manner. Thank you so much Pete will be doing it all over again this weekend for a crowd of 12...can't wait!!

  • Cheryl
    2 months ago

    This is without a doubt the best chilli crab recipe that i have used. Everybody loved it and cannot wait until i catch more crabs to cook for everyone. Not bad for someone that does not like seafood.

  • chuck
    4 months ago

    I know its late,but this awesome!!! Also awesome with fish!! Bring tha chilli on!!!

  • Asimina2
    10 months ago

    Best recipe, everyone keeps asking for the recipe and I'm more than willing to say where I found it.

  • Melissa691
    March 2012

    This was dish was DELICIOUS!!!

  • Sharon411
    March 2012

    Delicious recipe, however I left out the salt and found it tasty enough without it.

  • Kirrily10
    February 2012

    This recipe is sensational, my dad and I love crab so he cooked it for Christmas lunch and I couldn't get enough! My favourite crab recipe :)

  • Lees2603
    September 2011

    I tried petes recipe out of desparation after winning three seafood trays in a raffle, and having never cooked seafood before... All I can say is yum ! Cooked outside on a BBQ on wok- for my first time eating crab, this recipe was delicious!

  • Marg26
    July 2011

    This recipe looks amazing and I cannot wait to try it out. Thanks Pete

  • angela
    September 2010

    This recipe looks amazing!! We have been waiting to eat some really good mud crabs and after looking around at our local seafood shops have managed to get a hold of 8 HUGE muddies!!. The plan is to cook Singapore Chilli Mud Crab for fathers day tomorrow. This step by step video - I hope - will make it all go to plan....:)

  • bush chef
    February 2010

    Hehe we have been trying Muddies in different ways for years, This recipe is the best one so far. And thanks for the laughs, everyone seems to be food critics these days

  • freckles
    February 2010

    We made this last october 2009. My mum & dad were visiting up here in Sydney. My mum and I have ALWAYS wanted to eat Chilli Mud Crab- I said we're good cooks, why can't we make it ourselves? My husband went into the fish markets and purchased two. Thank God for this step by step recipe with the video, thanks Pete!!....we made it, it was ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!....AND IT WAS EASY. We are making it again tonight, but with prawns. I would encourage anyone to give it a go....you won't be disappointed!!

  • carby1
    January 2010

    better than anything found in a restaurant! and to think I cooked, it was quite easy too.

  • Jacjic
    January 2010

    Wow!! We were so impressed with this recipe. It was the best chilli mud crab we have ever had and the sauce was out of this world. The cherry tomatoes made the dish.

  • Brian
    July 2009

    any authentic asian chef (or even mum) would be horrified at you freezing a mud crab to kill it. It changes the texture of the meat, to kill a mud crab, you life the flap around the crab's bumb and insert a chopstick straight through the crab. There isn't a restaurant anywhere in Asia (that's worth visiting) that would freeze a crab.

    • Neptunes
      February 2010

      Hi Brian - you are right when you say freezing a crab changes the texture of the meat. However, it is not the intention of the chef to freeze the crab, only to kill it with the cold. Tropical & Sub tropical crustaceans are sensitive to the cold and die quickly in the sub zero environment. 20 to 30 minutes will kill the crab without freezing the meat and without pain to the crab. Killing a crab by pushing a chop stick through its body is old school and was the accepted method for generations. However, it is the modern Australian way to kill our food quickly, efficiently, without contamination from animal excrement and without pain to the animal, including a crab. The accepted method in my restaurant is to `freeze' the crab just prior to cooking in the mentioned way. Packing them in crushed ice will also kill the crab without freezing the meat. This way there is no concern about freezing the meat.

    • Marshmallow
      July 2009

      spot on

  • MudCrabQueen
    June 2009

    Just so you know ... female crabs are called 'jennies' not hens!!

  • simonetta
    June 2009

    how do you know: - when the crabs are killed (when freezing) - where to cut in segments - how to crackt he claws?

    thanks for your help

    • Nathan66
      October 2009

      first of all ronny babe dont be so pretentious we all start somewhere, there is only one way to gain knowledge through food and that is what simonetta is doing, should be applauded not degraded. Simonetta crabs are put into hibernation when freezing is slows down their nervous system making it a more humane way to kill them. Their are different ways to kill them, as stated by Brian although a metal skewer can be used in place of chopstick, or you can go just off centre of the eyes with a skewer or small sharp pointed knife, this pierces the brain, killing them. The easiest way to segment a crab for this dish is to lift the top shell (carapace) of the crab (this is generally not kept for this dish) removing dead mans fingers. Cut straight through the middle of the crab with a cleaver or heavy bladed knife, then cut thes in 1/2 again, crack the thick part of the shells lightly with the back of the cleaver or meat mallet, making it easier when you go to eat it and also helps to quicken the cooking process.

    • ronny babe
      July 2009

      you know nothing about food

  • Clacla
    May 2009

    That's amazing! It's easy to make.For sure I will make this many times.

  • caroandliv
    May 2009

    Wonderful, truly wonderful. Served with crusty bread to mop up beautiful sauce. 10/10

  • Deanna
    May 2009

    i have made this and it was the best i just altered the amount of chilli by a little not to much though it was so so deliousious we where licking our fingers in the end. Will make over and over again.

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