Recipe: At Home Crab Curry

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Crab Curry. This recipe for Indian crab curry minimizes the curry flavor so that the crab is the focus of the dish. Try serving this curry with plain boiled rice and plenty of gravy. Crab curry is best eaten with your fingers.

Crab: Sprinkle salt, sugar and curry over pork and mix well; set aside.

Cut crab body into quarters leaving legs and claws whole; set aside.

Years ago, one of the readers of this site suggested I make crab curry, and, casting about for a good version, I settled on the one from Goa, in western India.

You can have Crab Curry using 20 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Crab Curry

1. Prepare 1 of . Crab - 3 (clean and cut into 2 keep aside).

2. It’s 2 of . Oil - 2tbsp.

3. Prepare 3 of . Cardamom - 3.

4. You need 4 of . Clove - 3.

5. Prepare 5 of . Salt - as needed.

6. It’s 6 of . Coriander leaves - as needed.

7. Prepare of Fry and Grind:.

8. It’s 1 of . Oil - 1 tbsp.

9. Prepare 2 of . Cumin - 2 tsp.

10. You need 3 of . Fennel - 2 tsp.

11. It’s 4 of . Black pepper - 1 tbsp.

12. Prepare 5 of . Onion - 1 sliced.

13. Prepare 6 of . Green chilli - 2.

14. It’s 7 of . Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp.

15. You need 8 of . Turmeric - 1/2 tsp.

16. It’s 9 of . Red chilli - 2.

17. Prepare 10 of . Coriander powder - 1 tbsp.

18. It’s 11 of . Tomatoes - 2 sliced.

19. It’s 12 of . Water - 1/2 cup.

20. Prepare 13 of . Grated coconut - 1/2 cup.

Goan food is a combination of Indian and Portuguese, and it is one of the more exciting places to go, culinarily speaking.

Crab Curry, or Nandu Kozhambu is a special treat in Chettiar households.

When we do make it, we parcel it off to our relatives so that they can enjoy it with an evening dosa or with a little white rice for dinner.

While I live too far away to send a pot of crab curry to my loved ones, this recipe is my little parcel of affection.

Crab Curry step by step

1. 1. Heat kadai add oil once it hot add all the ingredients under "FRY AND GRIND" except coconut. Cool and grind it into smooth paste with coconut.

2. Heat iron kadai when it hot add oil. Once the oil is hot add cardamom, clove to this.

3. Now add the masala. Cook for 2 min in medium flame..

4. 4. Now add the cleaned crab to this. Adjust salt. Close with lid and cook for another 15 to 20 minutes in medium flame.

5. Once it done garnish with coriander leaves and serve with steamed hot rice.

6. The next day it taste very nice..

This crab curry recipe is a Mangalorean cuisine I got from one of my Aunt, who is a great traditional cook.

There are different types of crab curries with different masala used, this particular one is used to cook only crabs.

There are crab curry preparations with adding vegetables like raw papaya, Malabar spinach etc.

The South Indian style Crab Curry is a very spicy and tasty dish prepared often at our home and served as a main course.

This instructable will guide you on how to prepare the crab curry in easy to understand steps.