Grandma's Spicy Crab Curry
Grandma's Spicy Crab Curry

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Great recipe for Grandma's Spicy Crab Curry. This Spicy Crab Curry is a traditional South Indian style curry. This curry is one of the signature recipes of my late grandmother.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have grandma's spicy crab curry using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Grandma's Spicy Crab Curry:
  1. Make ready 2 kg Crab
  2. Take 13 Onion big sized
  3. Take 25 Shallots
  4. Get 4 +1 Tomatoes big sized (medium)
  5. Make ready 1.5 tablespoons Fennel Seeds
  6. Take 2 tablespoons Garlic chopped
  7. Get 3 Green Cardamom
  8. Prepare Cloves 9
  9. Make ready 3 Red chillies
  10. Get 3 crushed Bay Leaves large
  11. Get 1 tablespoon Ginger Garlic paste
  12. Get 1 tablespoon Turmeric powder
  13. Get 2 tablespoons Red chilli powder
  14. Take 1 tablespoon Coriander powder
  15. Get 3/4 tablespoons Garam Masala powder
  16. Prepare 3 tablespoons or as preferred Black Pepper powder
  17. Prepare 1.5 tablespoon Cumin powder
  18. Take 3 teaspoons or as preferred Salt
  19. Get 4 tablespoons Sunflower Oil
  20. Prepare 100 ml Sesame Oil
  21. Get as needed Water
  22. Prepare 3-4 fistful roughly chopped Curry Leaves
  23. Take 2 fistful roughly chopped Cilantros

I don't roast the spices for this Sri Lankan crab curry. The reason is that, seafood is more delicate in flavor and roasting the spices makes their flavor profile more robust which can easily overpower the flavor of seafood. The South Indian style Crab Curry is a very spicy and tasty dish prepared often at our home and served as a main course. Crab curry is one of the tastiest dishes in Sri Lanka.

Steps to make Grandma's Spicy Crab Curry:
  1. Take 13 big sized roughly chopped onions in a blender. - - Add required water and grind to a smooth and thick purée. Keep it aside.
  2. In the same blender, add 3 green cardamom and 1.5 tablespoons fennel seeds. - - Add 9 cloves. - - Add 2 tablespoons chopped garlic. - - Add 25 shallots. - - Add required water and grind into a smooth thick paste. Keep this also aside.
  3. Then blend 4 large tomatoes into a purée. Keep it aside for later use. - - Heat 4 tablespoons sunflower oil and 100ml sesame oil in a wide Handi. - - Drop 3 crushed bay leaves, 3 red chillies in the hot oil.
  4. Sauté quickly until rawness leaves. - - Then add fistful chopped curry leaves. - - Cover the Handi and cook for 5 minutes till purée shows discoloration. - - When the onion purée is cooked well, - Pour in the ground tomato purée.
  5. After frying the chillies, add the ground onion paste. - - Add in the shallot and fennel paste as well. - - Sauté all until rawness leaves. - - Add in a teaspoon salt in between while sautéing the onion paste. - - Add 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste.
  6. Add remaining salt as preferred. - - Pour 200 ml water. Cover and cook until ingredients combine well. - - When curry has reached it's finest texture, - add in extra curry leaves. - - Add 3 tablespoons black pepper.
  7. Add 1 medium tomato finely chopped. - - Mix all. Cover the Handi and cook until tomato purée is well cooked, Curry turns little dark. - - When the curry boils, add 1 tablespoon turmeric powder. - - Add 1 tablespoon coriander powder. - - Add 2 tablespoons red chilli powder.
  8. Mix. Add 2 kg cleaned crabs. Push the crab in the curry, - - Cover and cook for 15 minutes in medium heat until crab is cooked well, turns orange in colour. - - In between add another fistful chopped curry leaves for flavor. - - After cooking the crab, add 3/4 tablespoon garam masala powder.
  9. Add 1.5 tablespoons cumin powder. - - Mix and allow the curry to boil until thick consistency achieved. By this time oil oozes on top. - - Add in 2 fistful chopped cilantros. Cover and Dum cook in slow for another 5 minutes. Switch off. - - Grandma’s Spicy Crab Curry is ready.Serve hot with steamed rice.This flavorful curry is - - undoubtedly delicious. Perfect for this winter season. Slurp. - - My Tip: - - Add chopped curry leaves to enrich the flavor of the curry.

Just like other seafood dishes, this spicy crab curry dish also a favorite dish for people who visited Sri Lanka. We Sri Lankans mostly cook seafood especially this crab curry with perfect spices and mixes. Lamb Intestine Recipe - Spicy Boti Curry - Goat Intestine Curry By my Grandma's. Thai Red Curry Shrimp - Spicy Prawn Recipe - PoorMansGourmet. Tom Kha Gai - Spicy Thai Coconut Chicken (or Turkey) Soup Recipe.

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