Chilli Crab

Best using live mudcrabs as used above and served with crusty warm sourdough bread

 2 large mudcrabs

1 large brown diced onion
8 red chillies

2 inches ginger

½ tbsp vinegar
6 tbsp oil
1 cup tomato sauce
2 tbsp tomato paste
4 tbsp sugar
1 cup stock

4 scallions

1 bunch corriander

2 tbsp fish sauce

brown ginger, garlic, chillies, onion 

add vinegar, stock, tomato sauce and paste, sugar and fish sauce.

when simmering add broken uncooked crab pieces

cook for a short amont of time when the shells trn red

thicken with cornflour / water mix

take off the heat then add scallions and chopped corriander