{"id":786,"date":"2015-07-27T12:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/?p=786"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:16:26","slug":"chili-crab-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/chili-crab-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chili Crab Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chili-crab.jpg\" alt=\"Chili Crab Recipe\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chili-crab.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chili-crab-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crabs sauteed with plump buds of garlic and mashed black beans is as wonderful a dish to prepared as it is to serve.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/span> (Serves 4)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 mud crabs, about 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz)<\/li>\n<li>6 cloves garlic, peeled<\/li>\n<li>5 cm\/2 inches ginger, peeled<\/li>\n<li>14 red chillies, seeded, if desired<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon cooking oil<\/li>\n<li>2 cm\/1 inch square dried prawn (shrimp) paste, roasted and crumbled (optional)<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons black bean paste (taucheo), washed, drained and pulped<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons sweet dark vinegar<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons tomato sauce<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon sugar<\/li>\n<li>Salt to taste<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoons corn flour (cornstarch), mixed with 4 tablespoons water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clean crabs thoroughly. Cut into quarters and crack open claws. Blend garlic, ginger and chillies into a paste. Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Heat oil in a wok until almost smoking. Add prawn paste and soy bean pulp and cook for 1 minute, stirring quickly to prevent burning.<\/p>\n<p>Add blended paste and stir. Reduce heat and continue frying until aromatic. Add crabs and stir-fry to coat crabs with gravy. Cover and cook in steam for 6-10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>When crab flesh turns white, add vinegar, tomato sauce, sugar and salt. Lower heat and simmer, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add cornflour mixture to thicken sauce slightly.<\/p>\n<p>Dish out and garnish as desired. Serve immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crabs sauteed with plump buds of garlic and mashed black beans is as wonderful a dish to prepared as it is to serve. Ingredients: (Serves 4) 2 mud crabs, about 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz) 6 cloves garlic, peeled 5 cm\/2 inches ginger, peeled 14 red chillies, seeded, if desired 1 tablespoon cooking oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-chili-crab-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}