Black Pepper Crayfish
From wokkingmum 16 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 2
Black Pepper Crab is the second most famous seafood dish in Singapore, after Chilli Crab. If you dont know how to handle crabs, try crayfish instead. Taste almost as good!
Ingredients
- 3 Crayfish, scrub to clean and chopped in half shopping list
- 3 tablespoon butter shopping list
- 2 Red Chilli, seeded and finely chopped shopping list
- 4 tablespoon black pepper, crushed shopping list
- 1 tablespoon Minced garlic shopping list
- 1 tablespoon Minced onion shopping list
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce shopping list
- 2 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine shopping list
- 1/2 tablespoon light soy sauce shopping list
- 5 tablespoon water shopping list
- 2 teaspoon sugar shopping list
- cornflour for dusting shopping list
- oil for frying shopping list
How to make it
- Dry-fry black pepper till fragrant.
- Remove and set aside.
- Pat dry the crayfish and dust with flour
- Deep fry till golden brown
- Heat wok, add the butter.
- When the butter has melted and begins to sizzles, add the garlic, onions and chilli and stir fry fragrant.
- Add the oyster sauce, light soya sauce, sugar, pepper and cooking wine.
- Mix well.
- Add in the water.
- Add the crayfish and stir fry on high heat till the sauce has dry.
- Dish and serve.
- Note:
- If you can't take it too spicy, leave out the red chilli or add more if you want it more spicy.
- Replace light soy sauce with 2 teaspoon of dark soy sauce instead for colour, if you like.
- You can add some curry leaves when you are frying garlic and onion to add fragnance.
- Remove when the leaves turn dark green and are crispy. Add them only at the end for garnishing.
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This is marvelous and finger licking delicious! Amazing flavor. I love chili crab and this is almost better!
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