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Goan Crab Curry

Crabs cooked Goan-style with coconut cream and goan chilli bombs.

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Cooking Instructions

  • 1.In a pan, add Kashmiri chilies, goan chilly bombs, grated coconut, garlic, ginger, cloves for heat, coriander seeds, cinnamon, black pepper corns, turmeric powder.
  • 2.Now for grinding, first transfer the kashmiri chilies in pestle and motor as chilies are the toughest to break down.
  • 3.Add salt to chilies and grind them.
  • 4.When chilies break down add rest of the dry masala.
  • 5.To this masala add oil, water and vinegar and grind the mixture well.
  • 6.Remove shrimp from marinade and thread onto skewers, 5 to 6 shrimp per skewer. Cook the shrimp on the preheated grill until they are bright pink on the outside and no longer transparent in the center, about 3 minutes per side.
  • 7.For Curry -
  • 8.In a pan, heat oil and add onions
  • 9.Now add masala paste to onions and stir it well.
  • 10.After stirring it add 3 tbsp tamarind extract while balancing it with putting jaggery.
  • 11.Add the crab and a pinch of salt.
  • 12.Now add water and cover it.
  • 13.For tempering -
  • 14.In a tadka pan add oil and Guntur chili paste.
  • 15.Add the tempering to the crab.
  • 16.Then add 5 tsp of tamarind extract jaggery and lime juice.
  • 17.Again cover it and let it simmer.
  • 18.After a while take out the crabs and add a spoon of coconut cream in curry.
  • 19.Again add crabs and little lime juice.
  • 20.Serve hot.

Ingredients

  • 4-5 crabs
  • 8 kashmiri chilies
  • 1 tbsp guntur chili paste
  • 6-7 Goan chili bombs
  • 1 cup coconut, grated
  • 15 garlic cloves
  • Ginger
  • 1 tbsp coriander seeds
  • 1 tbsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon
  • 10-12 black pepper corns
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • To taste salt
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 3 tbsp toddy vinegar
  • 2 onions, julienne
  • 3 tbsp tamarind extracts
  • 2 tbsp jaggery
  • 1 tsp lime juice
  • 2 tbsp coconut cream
  • 12 cloves