Stir Fry Crab with Salted Egg Yolk and Cheese Sauce recipe is a fusion beetween salted egg crab sauce and cheese sauce crab. Somekind of east meet west on a single plate, since both salted egg yolk and cheese ingredients got a nice savoury hind and guess what, both can blended into a heavenly sauce. Salted egg yolk on this recipe is added to the sauce for stir frying it, not in the batter for deep frying like my previously Crispy Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab with Salted Egg Yolk Batter Recipe.
Salted egg yolk crab or kepiting saus telur asin in Bahasa is actually an easy dish recipe. The basic ingredients is about 2-3 egg yolk for every pound of crab, curry leaves, chopped garlic, salt and pepepr to taste. Some people like to add chopped chilli too within the salted egg yolk sauce. Th crab is usually coated with flour and then deep fried for about 2-3 minutes or until half done. In the other wok pan, the sauce ingredients is stif fried until bubly and fragrance and then the deep fried crab is tossed with high heat. Broth or water is added to the wok pan for the last touch, let it boiled to make the salted egg mixture flavour penetrated even better to the crab meat.
Cheese sauce crab is another quicky and easy seafood recipe. The basic ingrediens for the cheese sauce is butter, garlic, cheese, salt, pepper and some liquid to melted the cheese. Some people love to add bacon and cream too within the cheese sauce. The recomended cheese for the sauce is parmagianno-regianno, emmental, old ceddar or gouda cheese, but you can use any kind of cheese that suits for your licking. The following instruction for making cheese sauce crab is similiar with the salted egg sauce crab above. If you think cheese sauce crab is boring, i usually bring it to the next level of taste with infused some saffron on the sauce.
This salted egg yolk and cheese sauce crab is using a female mud crab with roe. Even the crab roe or egg is not as full as the crab that i’m using for my Thai Green Curry Crab (Hot and Spicy Green Chilli Curried Mud Crab with Lemon Basil Leaves). The meat of this crab is much more sweeter and flaky than the full egg; i learn my lesson; you can have all what you want in one crab. The crab seller told me it’s all the matter of choice, either the meat or the roe. Virgin female crab got the most sweeter and stringy meat and the meat quality is decreased over the amount of roe on it.
Crab plus salted egg and cheese is a dish that you should had only before you’ve got 30 years old. It’s too bad the that i had to tell you that the cholesterol and calories level is too damn high for elderly.Cost you more than 30 minutes on a treadmill for a single crab than. But, you can reduce the calories with either boiled or steamed the crab instead of deep fried it. Salted egg and curry leaves is the list you should had for the authentic version, i guess it’s available on asian groceries nearby your place. The salted egg yolk is available either raw or boiled, i suggest you to buy the raw and boiled for yourself because it’s much morore fresh then. If you can resist not tho eat the salted egg white, you can diced it and add it as a garnish like what i’ve done.
Stir Fry Crab with Salted Egg Yolk and Cheese Sauce Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 medium size mud crab (i’m using 650 gr crab with roe)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 4 (or more) boiled salted egg yolk, mashed
- 1 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 sprigs of curry leaves
- 1/3 cup grated cheese
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 shallots, minced
- 3 chilli or cayenne pepper
- a pinch of saffron #optional, soaked with warm water 10 minutes prior to cooking
- 1 cup water or chicken broth
- salt and pepper to taste
Instruction:
- Brush and clean the mud crab properly with running water to get rid the muddy aromas
- Season the lemon juice, salt and pepper. set aside
- Drain the liquid from the crab and deep fried it for about 2-3 minutes, set aside (you can either steam or boiled it)
- Heat up 2 tbsp oil in a wok pan and add the butter, let the butter completely melted
- Add the shallots, garlic, chilli, saute until fragrant and slightly browned
- Add the mashed salted egg yolk and curry leaves and let it bubbly and the curry leaves is crisp up a little bit
- Pour the broth, saffron and then add the cheese, let it boiled and then add the deep fried crab into the sauce pan
- Once the cheese is completely melted, season it with salt and peper, let it simmer for another 3 minutes
- Serve it immediately with steaming hot rice
When I read the recipe title my thoughts were: that’s an interesting east/west combo. Glad it was a successful marriage. Sure looks mouth watering delicious.
ntar kalo ke palembang, kayanya udah ada tempat nyicipin masakan yang enak nih…. 🙂
Mmm…I love Salted Egg Yolk crab. so delicious. ……..I have tried to cooked this dish before . Seems to need to be very fast once the egg yolk is added it else it will burn. Maybe my control of the fire not good
P/s : yup love the roti unyil. Didnt have chance to try the asinan bogor though theyhave it in Royal Hotel Buffet 🙂
What a truly Amazing fantastic recipe, dear Dedy!!! Waw!!
Love that roe—fantastic dish!
Wow. We can get mud crabs out back from our traps but there’s a law in Queensland that we can only take boys. What beautiful photos, Dedy.
omg kepiting, makanan repot dan mahal tapi enyakkkkk
nice stufff dude
What a stunning crab dish! Sounds so flavorful with the salted egg yolk and spices. This dish looks so mouthwatering 🙂
I so wish we got crab here so that I could try this!
This delicious dish with splattering flavors is popular in our local Chinese restaurants. Having tasted it many a times, I simply will 100% to the your version too.
I love, love crab!
Your recipes always make me dream I go to a fish market and buy a living crab (which I can afford!). Very interesting way to prepare it!
How do you come up with these beautiful dishes?! 🙂 ela
mouth watering. gyaaaa ud lama banget gamakan kepiting T^T
One word. Perfect.
I actually have had something very similar to that here in HK, believe it or not. I thought I would never see cheese on an Asian menu here in the Canton region but it is really delightful and the addition of the egg makes your dish really special. Take care, BAM
Well, actually that’s why i called this a fussion or east meet west ingredients Bam….
i guess the cantonese salted egg crab is acually identic with chinese descent recipe here in Indonesia too, but no matter how it derived, surely it’s delicious!
You continue to amaze us, Dedy, with the variety of seafood that you prepare and the recipes you use to do so. This is another beautifully presented dish.
You are really killing me with your seafood recipes! So jealous, yum!!!
It’s so sad that I got allergic to crab. Otherwise, I can devour this dish all by myself. I miss eating like that. Now I am so careful and eat tiny bit (to taste!)… Such an amazing dish. Salted egg yolk with crab… totally new way to eat it for me!
aduuuh kok dentist bisa hebat banget ya masaknya.. ini mah bener bener serius jagonya…
I enjoy my crabs with salted egg yolks as well as cheese, but I’ve yet to have them both together. Aw! Dedy, you’re making me drool!
hmmm yummi… it’s delicious…