A different post, I smell crab
It’s time to post something other than cake!
Crab season usually started in the winter time and I’ve enjoyed eating steamed crabs, stir-fried crabs or any other style of cooking with crabs. Being an Indonesian by birth and sometimes am quite lazy, I even eat steamed crabs with fresh cut chilli with sweet soy sauce and steamed rice. Afterwards, my garbage bin would smell like the stinking ocean for weeks 
Here is one simple preparation to eat your crabs, especially when they’re on sale and you would want to save the meat for some other time.
Gold Medal Crab Fried Rice
Serves 4
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 cup cold cooked long-grain rice, grains separated
4 egg yolks, lightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1/4 pound uncooked medium shrimp, shelled, deveined, and cut into 1/2-inch pieces——I left them whole
1/4 pound crabmeat, flaked and picked over for shells
2 green onions, trimmed, cut into 2-inch lengths, and shredded
2 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
Cooked shelled crabmeat from 2 leg segments (optional)
Cooked meat from 1 lobster tail, cut into bite-sized pieces (optional)
2 teaspoon tobiko caviar, optional
Heat a wok over medium heat until hot. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil and swirl to coat the sides. Reduce the heat to low, add the rice, and egg yolks, and cook, stirring continuously, until each grain of rice is coated with the yolk and golden, about 2 minutes.
Increase the heat to high, make a well in the center of the rice to expose the bottom of the wok, and add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Drop the garlic and shrimp into the well and stir constantly until the shrimp turn pink, 1 to 1 1/2 minutes.
Stir the shrimp and rice together. Add the flaked crabmeat, half the green onions, the water, salt, and pepper and cook, stirring, until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes.
Scoop the rice onto a serving platter, garnish with the remaining green onion and crab leg meat, lobster, and caviar, if suing, and serve immediately.
Source: Martin Yan’s Chinatown Cooking
looks really hearty and healthy! i’ve never attempted to eat crab, but there was chilly crab night at one of cafes in Ubud, Bali, and I fell in love with it at the very first taste
God, it was soooooo goooood!! and looking at this picture makes me really want to taste crab again. good picture, eliza!
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Comment by yohana — February 3, 2007 @ 7:39 pm
This looks delicious! keep up the recipes, I love reading about them!
Comment by kp — February 6, 2007 @ 1:58 am