Kepiting Rajungan Steam Saus Cabe Hijau
Kepiting Rajungan or Portunus pelagicus, also knownas the flower crab, blue crab, blue swimmer crab, blue manna crab or sand crab, is a large crab found in the intertidal estuaries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Asian coasts) and the Middle-Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The name “flower crab” is used in east Asian countries while the latter names are used in Australia.
Look at the orange blue crab roe, so delicacy…
This baby had a very succulent, sweet and tasty flesh compares to regular mud crab thats why like it much more than mud crab. I used to steam the blue crab with minim additional seasoning, just soy sauce, lime juice, and chopped bird eye cillies. But today i seasoned the blue crab with saus cabe hijau or green chillie sauce. Green chilli sauce is considered as Indonesia or Thailand sauce, u an easily find this kind of sauce in both country and it goes perfectly blend with any kind of seafood.
Ingredient:
Fresh blue crab with roe
- 1/2 kg fresh raw blue crab/ kepiting rajungan
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- salt and peper to taste
For green chillies sauce/ saus cabe hijau
- 50 gr geen chillies/ cabe hijau
- 6 garlic cloves / bawang putih
- 6 shallot/ bawang merah
- 3 lemon grass, peel to the soft white heart/ sereh, kupas sampai bagian putih
- 3 cm ginger/jahe
- 6 tablespoons angciu / shao hsing wine or dry sherry
- 1 tablespoons sugar
- 6 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 1 chicken buillion cube
Instruction:
- Place crab on chopping board, top-shell side down, pull the triangle part and discard it, pull the shell vertically and remove the hairy bits or the gills, wash with running water
- Springke with salt, pepper and lime juice, set aside
- Make the green chillies sauce : Mashed the green chilli, garlic, shallot, ginger and lemon grass in a mortar, heat the oil, saute the mixture until soften and fragrance. add the ang ciu, suger, light soy sauce and chicken buillion, simmer until the sauce is reduce
- Drain the blue crab then put into a heatproof bowl, spread the green chilli sauce all over the blue crab.
- Cover with alumunium foil to prevent any liquid comes from steaming

How to Steamed Blue Crab Recipe: Cover with Amulunium Foil to Avoid Any Dripping from Steaming Process
- Now is the trickiest part, steam the cram in a higest flame that possible for about 7 minutes, don’t over cooked it
- Serve with warm rice, glass noodle or porridge
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