Sunday, June 27, 2010

Crab Curry (Nandu curry)



Ingredients
  • Crabs - 5 (big size)
  • Onion - 2 (chopped nicely)
  • Green Chillies - 6
  • Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Tamarind pulp - 2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Cloves - 2
  • Fennel - 1/2 tsp
  • Ginger garlic paste - 1.5 tsp
  • Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Garlic - 8 cloves
  • Salt for taste
  • Oil - 3 tsp
  • Curry leaves - a handful

Method 
  • In kadai add the crabs, 1 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp turmeric and boil them, till they become soft. 
  • Break the bigger claws and take out the flesh from it and keep aside in a bowl. The body and other claws can be put as it is.
  • Meanwhile, grind the scraped coconut, green chillies, cumin seeds, garlic to a fine paste.
  • In another kadai, heat up oil on medium flame and add the cloves, fennel.
  • When they start spluttering, add the finely chopped onions, ginger garlic paste and curry leaves and fry well.
  • Mix the ground paste, salt, crab body and smaller claws, tamarind paste and the remaining turmeric powder and 1/2 cup water and cook till the raw smell of ground paste goes off.
  • Now add the flesh to the curry, stir for 1 minute and switch off the stove.
  • Serve hot the crab curry.


1 lovely comments:

NIDHYA

Never tried crab curry. Nice one.

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