Hi there,
Today, 20th. June, 2014, mummy cooked crab rice for dinner. I would like to write it down while it isstill fresh in my mind.
Ingredients:
(1) Two crabs.
(2) 4 cloves of garlic.
(3) 2 small onions.
(4) One and a half inches of ginger.
(5) Oyster sauce.
(6) Linseed oil.
(7) Cooking wine.
(8) White rice (Basmathi- Mongul)
Method:
Cut the crab into two. Brush away the dirt with an old tooth brush under running water. Remove the lungs and the stomach (Important - If you don't remove the stomach,it may upset your stomach). Then cut into quarters. Crack the pincers to allow the juice to flow into the rice, keep it moist too. Keep it in the fridge until ready to cook.
Clean and julienne the ginger and put it aside.
Clean two small onions and cut into slices and put aside.
Clean and chop 4 cloves of garlic and put aside.
Cooking:
Heat up the kuali and then pour in about 4 tablespoonful of linseed oil.
First put in the ginger and stir it. Then add in the onions and stir until aromatic.
Then put in the garlic and stir for awhile.
Next put in the crabs and mix thoroughly with the ingredients.
Then put in the rice which has been cleaned in a big sieve. No water yet. Stir well.
Add in some oyster sauce, a capful of cooking wine and some salt (a pinch will do).
The flame must be lower at this point.
Stir everything well. Finally pour in some water. The water must not be more than two times the rice in volume. If you use one cup of rice, then the water must be two cups.
Let the whole thing boil for some time.
Then scoop the whole thing into the rice cooker and let it cook.
Then serve while it is hot.
Enjoy!
Additional Ingredients to enhance the taste:
Lala -- you can add in some lala to the crab rice.
Prawns -- peeled and de-veined before adding in. Sea prawns will taste better than pond-bred ones.
Meat -- chicken, pork. Cut into small pieces before adding in.
Crab -- you can increase the number of crabs to three or four if the crabs are too small.
When adding in the above additional ingredients, they must not be too much. One or two of the additional ingredients should suffice and in small quantity.
Pa.
