stir fried crab curry

How To Make stir fried crab curry

• Step 1
  Preparation, get everything ready first. 1. Crabs: Remove the tail flaps and cut each crab in half, from head to tail area. 2. Onion: halve then chopped. 3. Spring Onion and Thai Celery including the tops: chopped into 1 to 2 inch pieces. 4. As an alternate to coarsely ground black pepper, use whole peppercorns and crush them in a mortar. 5. Eggs, lightly beaten. Once everything is prepped, we are ready to begin.
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  Step 2
  Here is the curry sauce packet used.
• Step 3
  With Thai families, there is usually more than one person helping in the kitchen, often times the prep work is done by the whole family and the best cook prepares the dish or directs others to prepare it, basically teaching in action.
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  Step 4
  Heat a splash of oil in your large wok or large pan on medium high heat. When hot, add the garlic, and since this is called a stir fry, so start stirring.
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  Step 5
  When the when garlic is browned up a bit, add the crab, keep stirring.
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  Step 6
  Sprinkle in about half of the black pepper, and you guessed it, keep stirring.
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  Step 7
  And stirring.
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  Step 8
  After a few minutes you will start seeing the shell turn red.
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  Step 9
  Add the onion.
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  Step 10
  And stir until the onion is softened up a bit, just a few minutes.
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  Step 11
  Add the remaining black pepper and stir that in.
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  Step 12
  Pour in the beaten eggs.
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  Step 13
  Stir for 30 seconds or so to distribute some of the egg.
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  Step 14
  Add the packet of curry sauce.
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  Step 15
  Stir some more.
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  Step 16
  Coming together beautifully. Liquid is water from the crabs as well as the sauce thinned out with that water.
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  Step 17
  Add the spring onion and Thai celery. A note about the celery, if you cannot find Thai or Chinese celery, use regular celery but cut 1 stalk into 3-4 ling pieces then dice plus chop up about 2-3 tops.
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  Step 18
  Stir again, almost done.
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  Step 19
  And there you go, Stir Fried Crab Curry. From heating the wok to this, maybe 10 minutes. This is the reason to have everything prepped and ready to go.
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  Step 20
  Pour everything onto a platter, ready to be served.
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