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Chili Crab

Name: Chili Crab
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: 2 lbs whole mud crabs, cleaned and cut; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 1 inch ginger, minced; 3 red chillies, minced; 3 tbsp chilli paste; 1 cup tomato ketchup; 1 cup tomato passata; 2 tbsp sugar; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 eggs, beaten; oil to cook; fried mantou buns to serve

Singapore's most iconic dish — whole crab stir-fried in a spicy-sweet-tangy tomato chilli gravy. Stirring the beaten eggs into the sauce right at the end creates those signature silky egg strands running through the gravy.

Total time

40 min

Prep

20 min

Cook

20 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

Singaporean

comfortseafoodspicy

Ingredients

2 lbswhole mud crabs, cleaned and cut

4 clovesgarlic, minced

1 inchginger, minced

3red chillies, minced

3 tbspchilli paste

1 cuptomato ketchup

1 cuptomato passata

2 tbspsugar

2 tbspsoy sauce

2eggs, beaten

oilto cook

fried mantou bunsto serve

Instructions

Stir-fry garlic, ginger, and chilli in oil until fragrant.

Add chilli paste; cook 2 minutes. Add ketchup, passata, sugar, and soy.

Add crab; stir-fry until cooked through, about 8 minutes.

Stir in beaten eggs to create silky strands in sauce.

Serve with fried mantou for dipping in the sauce.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

Fat

2.5g

Carbs

8.4g

Fiber

0.2g

Sodium

443mg