Fried Noodles with Crab

(pic: rasamalaysia)

Ingredients :

2 tbsp garlic
half cup shallots
5 dried chilies, seeds removed, soaked in water
half tsp salt
2-3 crabs
quarter cup cooking oil
1 cup crab meat
30 gr dried thin rice noodles (Chanthaboon noodles), soaked to soften and drained
quarter cup sugar
quarter cup tamarind juice
quarter cup fish sauce
300 gr bean sprouts
100 gr Chinese Chives, cut into short length
2-3 limes


How To Make :

1. Peel the garlic and shallots and slice the dried chili. Place chili and salt in a mortar and pound, the add garlic and shallots and pound to a fine paste. Put aside. Clean the crabs and cut each one into 4-6 pieces. Set aside.

2. Heat the oil in a frying pan. When hot, fry the pounded chili paste and season to taste, the stir in the crabs to cook through. Transfer the fried crabs to a bowl and set aside. Ladle half of the remaining liquid to a bowl for later use.

3. In the same pan, fry the crab meat with the other half of the liquid. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.

4. In the same pan, fry the noodles with the reserved liquid. Season with sugar, tamarind juice and fish sauce. Then add the bean sprouts, Chinese chives, and the fried crabs. Toss to cook and coat well.

5. Place noodles on the serving plates and spoon fried crab meat over them. Serve with banana flower, Chinese chive and lime wedges.


(Source : The Best of Thai Cuisine ; Sisamon Kongpan)