Crab Masala-Chettinad Style

CHETTINAD CRAB MASALA- Sounds Interesting to Crab lovers..
I wont prefer Crab eating/Cooking for long time..But my hubby,crazy of Crabs,rather I would say, mostly all the seafoods..Really, I have no idea of Crab.One of my friend(MUTHU),Contacted me after very looong time,and she is from Core Chettinad and the whole recipe belongs to her's,So you can expect 100% chettinad taste.And you can cook this within 15min or not more than 20mins...Seems very YUM YUM!!!try it soon...

Ingredients:

Crab - 1 lb/ 1/2kg

Onion - 1

Tomato - 2

Garlic - 5

Chilli powder -11/2 tspn

Pepper powder - 2 tspn

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tspn

Salt - to taste

To Grind:

Ginger - 1 inch

Garlic - 5

Coconut - 3 tb spn

Fennal seeds - 1tspn

Jeera/Cumin - 1tspn

Pepper Corns - 1 tspn

To fry:

Fennal seeds - 1/2 tspn

Pepper - 1/2 tspn

Curry leaves - 1sprig

Oil - as required

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a pan, add all the ingredients to fry(Fennal,pepper ,curryleaves) and toss for 1min

2. Add the nicely chopped onion, garlic, tomato fry for 4 minutes

3. Add all the powders(Chilli,Pepper,Turmeric)

4. Now add the ground masala and fry for 5mins or until the smell leaves out

5. Atlast add the crab( do not add water) and stir it for 5 minutes and keep it in low flame for 5 min,make it to dry.

Enjoy with Rice!!!!!

Note: While washing the Crab,wash 3 times in the cold water and add the turmeric powder cook the crab immediately within 1 hour. If the Crab is in large size, break the legs slightly with meat breaker, it makes easy to serve and eat.