Srilankan crab curry # surf. Sri Lankan Crab Curry Spicy Sri Lankan Crab Curry - made with fresh blue swimmer crabs, and an aromatic and flavorful Sri Lankan curry base. It's a delicious, comforting, authentic Sri Lankan seafood curry dish! This famous Sri Lankan curry involves a bit of preparation and love cleaning the crab but you'll be richly rewarded by this flavoursome dish.
This Asian recipe is prepared using crab meat, shallots and milk, and goes well with steamed rice/pulao traditionally.
However, you can also enjoy this curry recipe with chapati or parathas.
I prepared this curry for the first time in Sri Lankan potluck #wildasperagustable hosted by Inderpreet Nagpal, the founder of Herb's and spices, and organised by Saloni , the cofounder at FBAI and chef Ananya Banerjee.
You can cook Srilankan crab curry # surf using 21 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Srilankan crab curry # surf
- It's 1 of leave mud crab about 1.5 kg.
- It's 2 of onion diced.
- You need 3 of green chillies.
- You need leaves of Hands full curry.
- It's 1/2 cup of shredded coconut.
- You need 1/2 tsp of pepper.
- It's 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
- It's 3 tbsp of coconut oil.
- It's 1 cup of water.
- You need of Jaffna curry powder.
- Prepare 4 tbsp of coriander.
- It's 3 tbsp of cummin seeds.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of black peppercorns.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of mustard.
- It's 1 tsp of cloves.
- Prepare 8 of cardamom pods.
- It's 1 tsp of fennel.
- Prepare 1 cup of coconutilk.
- You need 1 tbsp of tamarind paste.
- Prepare of Juice of one lime.
- It's 1 sprig of drum stick leaves if not just coriander leaves will do.
We've made a Sri Lankan classic: Crab Curry. While commonly a whole crab sits in a bowl, we've created a more manageable version with ready-picked crabmeat. The sweetness from the crab and creaminess from the coconut are paired with a zingy lime and cucumber salad and served over fluffy rice. Crab curry is one of the tastiest dishes in Sri Lanka.
Srilankan crab curry # surf instructions
- Put the crabs in the freezer for 1 hour to immobilise them. Pull off the top shells, pull out the spongy grey gills and remove the guts. Wash clean and put the crab in boiling water along with little salt snd turmeric powder (I do this to remove the raw smell and firm up the flesh) 5 minutes.. Remove, chop the crab into 6 pieces...
- For the curry powderPlace the rice on a dry non-stick pan. Heat over medium heat until the rice starts to turn light brown. Add the rest of the spices and pan roast for a further 3 - 5 minutes until the spices start to brown, toast and become aromatic. Keep moving the pan to prevent the spices from burning. Remove from the heat and let the spices cool. Once the spices cool down - use a spice grinder (or a mortar and pestle) to grind the spice mix into a powder in batches and mix well. Store.
- Heat the oil in a large heavy-based saucepan, add the onions, curry leaves, chillies and cook for a few minutes or until the onions are golden.
- Add the coconut paste.. saute' Add the curry powder, chilli powder and turmeric mix in and add the crab and cook for another 3 minutes, at this stage you need to stir it a lot so the spices don’t burn..
- Then add the coconut milk, the tamarind paste, stir and add the water..
- Cover and simmer for 12 minutes or until crab is just cooked through and sauce has thickened. Stir in the drumstick leaves, lime juice and season to taste with salt. Enjoy with hit steamed rice...
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. Spice lovers can opt for the Jaffna Crab Curry, a unique Sri Lankan recipe that is of Tamil heritage and kicks up the heat by a notch. I have had crab in every which way possible; at the most outrageously priced crab specialty restaurants to the small hole-in-the-wall outlets known for their crab curry in Sri Lanka and elsewhere, but let me just say that I am yet to encounter a crab curry that tops the one my mother makes. Place all the ingredients for the crab curry into a large pot.
