,
This recipe is usually made with fresh crabs; the crabs are cooked, the meat
is removed and mixed with the other ingredients, the mixture stuffed back into the
cleaned crab shells, and then fried. If you would like to make the recipe with
canned crab meat, you can stuff the mixture into crab shells if you can find
them, or any other type of seafood shells, or you can simply form the crab
mixture into cakes without any shell.
Ingredients
- Fish sauce to taste
- 3 tbsp Lime juice
- 1 tbsp Garlic chop fine
- 1 tbsp Palm sugar
- 1 tbsp Chili paste
- 6 Crabs, small
OR
- 1/2 lb Crab meat
- 1/2 lb Ground pork
- 1/2 lb Shrimp or Prawns chop fine
- 1/4 cup Green onions chop fine
- 1 tbsp Coriander leaves chop fine
- 1 tbsp Garlic chop fine
- 1 tbsp Fish sauce
- 1 tbsp Corn starch
- 1 tsp Soya sauce
- 1/2 tsp Black pepper ground
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Chili paste
- 1 Egg
- Peanut oil for deep frying
Directions
Combine fish sauce, lime juice, garlic, palm sugar and
chili paste in a bowl and mix to dissolve sugar. Set aside.
If using fresh crabs, steam for 30 minutes or until
cooked. Remove crab meat from shell, being careful not to
destroy the shells.
Mix crab meat, ground pork, shrimp or prawns, green onion, coriander
leaves, garlic, fish sauce, corn starch, soya sauce, black
pepper, salt, chili paste and egg.
If using crab shells, stuff shells with mixture. If not,
form mixture into 6 cakes about 3/4 inch thick.
Heat oil to 350F and deep fry shells / cakes for 8-10
minutes until golden brown.
Drain on paper towels and serve with sauce on the side.
Yield - 6 shells / cakes
