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Singapore Black Pepper Crab

Crab and coriander simmered on the stove, with a kick of chilli for a Malaysian dish. It comes to the table with sauce drizzled over.

50 min · Serves 4 · Easy

Serves
4

Ingredients

Time
Prep 30 min · Cook 20 min · 50 min total
Difficulty
easy
  1. 1

    Clean the crab and cut into pieces. Lightly crack shells to allow sauce to be absorbed. Heat oil in a large pan over high heat. Add in crab pieces and fry for 3 minutes Remove crab, set aside and drain off excess oil.

    3 min
  2. 2

    Heat the pan again and fry shallots, garlic and red chilli until fragrant, then add butter and ground black pepper.

  3. 3

    Stir in the crab, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and water. Simmer for 10 minutes on medium heat, until the crab is fully cooked. Serve with sauce drizzled over.

    10 min

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