Crab gravy using coconut milk recipe
This crab gravy using coconut milk is prepared in villages with small crabs. Here I have preferred the same with flower crabs. You can prepare this Curry with or without coconut milk. I have prepared by adding the coconut milk
Servings: 5
Ingredients
For marination
- Crabs - 2
- Chili powder - 1/2 a teaspoon
- coriander powder - 1/2 teaspoon
- salt - 1/2 teaspoon
- turmeric - 1/2 a teaspoon
To grind
- Onion - 2
- tomato - 2
- green chili - 1 or 2
- Black pepper - 1/4 tsp optional ( here I didn't add)
Other ingredients
- Oil 5 to 6 tbsp
- Chili powder coriander powder, salt - 1/2 tsp or as needed
- Salt- as per taste
- Curry leaves - little
- coriander leaves - little
- water - 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup or as needed to cook the crab
- Coconut milk - 3/4 to 1 Cup
Spices
- Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Cloves - 5 or 6
- cardamom - 2
- cinnamon stick stick - 2 inch crushed
- bay leaves - 2 or 3
- star anise - 1 Or 2 I didn't add, as I didn't have at the time of cooking
Instructions
Method to prepare crab gravy using coconut milk
- Marinate Crab with half teaspoon of chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric and salt. Let it rest for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour in a vessel add 2 tbsp of oil and when the oil is hot and finely chopped onion and sort it nicely.
- Once the onions are translucent and the finely chopped tomatoes and the green chili.
- Saute the tomatoes until it becomes mushy. Now transfer the content to a food processor and grind them into a coarse paste.
- In the same vessel add 4 tbsp of oil and add the spices one by one and fry for a min.
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry till raw smell of ginger goes off.
- Add the coarse onion tomato paste and allow to boil for 5 min in medium flame.
- Add the marinated crabs.
- Add salt, chili powder, coriander powder turmeric if needed.
- Add the handful of coriander and Curry leaves.
- Now Add the water and cover and cook for 10 minutes or until the crabs are cooked nicely.
- Once the crabs are nicely cooked add one cup of coconut milk and cook for another 5 to 7 minutes.
- Once the gravy becomes thick, switch off the stove.
- Crab Gravy is ready to be served.
Notes
See Notes Below