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Easy Chilli Crab

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Easy Chilli Crab

Singapore's iconic crab dish — stirring beaten egg through the sauce right at the end creates those signature silky ribbons. Always served with mantou buns for mopping up the sauce.

Total time
35 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
15 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
Singaporean
gluten-freehigh-protein

Ingredients

2mud crab or blue swimmer crab
2 cupschili-tomato sauce
1egg, beaten

Instructions

1

Clean and chop crab into pieces.

2

Fry briefly until shells turn red.

3

Simmer chili-tomato sauce, add crab, cook until sauce coats and thickens.

4

Stir through beaten egg at the end to form silky ribbons, serve with mantou buns.

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