Recipes - Crab Sukka
Ingredients:
3 big crabs (shelled, washed and cut)
1 cup grated coconut
1 onion (sliced)
1 “ ginger (chopped)
5-6 flakes garlic (sliced)
1 tomato (chopped)
4-5 cloves
1” cinnamon
2-3 bay leaves
Pinch of asafetida (hing)
Salt as per taste
For Masala:
8-10 long red chillies
1 medium onion
2 tbsp. coriander
1 tsp. cumin/jeera
½ tsp. turmeric powder
2-3 seeds tamarind
3-4 pepper corns
1 tbsp. rice (roasted and puffed)
Seasoing:
2 tbsp. coconut oil
5-6 flakes garlic (crushed)
Handful of curry leaves
Method:
Dry roast all the masala ingredients except tamarind. Roast onion on fire. Once cooled peel onion and chop roughly. Later grind onion and tamarind along with roasted ingredients into a fine paste.
Cook crabs along with sliced onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cloves , bay leaves, salt and masala paste. Add masala water as well. Cook for about 15 mts. or until done. Lastly add grated coconut and mix well and cook for another 2 mts.
Heat oil. Splutter mustard, brown crushed garlic and curry leaves. Pour this over crab sukka.
Serve with steamed rice and sambar of your choice.