My youngest daughter have been asking for this for a long , long time...and so, just to reward her for spending so much time on her Robotics, I finally made these for her...and the rest of the family gobbled up too..!
This recipe is for 4.
Ingredients
8 crabs - cleaned
To be grounded
40 dried chillies, soaked to soften
5 onions
6 cloves of garlic
2 inches ginger
2 inches galangal/blue ginger
2 tbsp belacan
5 candlenuts
2 stalks of lemongrass
8 cups of water
1/2 cup of tamarind juice
1/2 cup sugar
salt to taste
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup chilli sauce
4 eggs
1/4 cup of corstarch solution (instead of cornflour, I used potato flour)
sprigs of fresh coriander
Heat abt 1 and 1/2 cup of oil in wok. Saute ground ingredients till chilli is cooked and fragrant. Add water, tamarind juice,sugar,tomato and chilli sauce,salt. Cook to a rapid boil. When boiling, add crabs. When cooked, break in the eggs and add the solution. Stir and when gravy has thickened, remove from heat and serve with crusty french bread. Sprinkle with chopped fresh coriander.
