Bengal (Digha) Restaurant style Crab Dry Gravy Recipe

Crab curry is a typical Indo-Portuguese dish from Goa, Daman and Diu, a region along the west coast of today's India which was part of the Portuguese State of India. But I had cooked it my Digha style crab dry curry.

Bengali Style Crab Curry which is called as Kakrar Jhal in Bengali is a sea food gravy prepared using crab and potatoes. Onion, ginger, garlic and dry spices are used to prepare the base of this gravy.

However, the crab has its own taste, so addition of crab makes this gravy exotic. It is a spicy dish and one can adjust the taste according to their taste buds.

Serve this on a weekend and wait for the compliments.

Ingredients :

1. Crab meat - 4 crabs
2. Ginger - 2 1/2 inch
3. Garlic - 10 cloves
4. Tomatoes - 2 small
5. Onion - 2 large
6. Green Chillis - 8 pcs
7. Red pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
8. Cumin powder - 1 tbsp
9. Mustard oil - 1/4 cup
10. Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
11. Garam masala - 1/2 tbsp
12. Clarified butter (ghee) - 1 tbsp
13. Dry masala : black cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf
14. Salt n sugar as per taste

Procedure :

1. Marinate the crab meat (you can remove the crab shell and cook) with 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and salt to taste (1 tsp). Heat mustard oil till smoke point and fry this crabs. Keep aside.

2. Now, heat 2 tbsp of oil in that pan. Add pinch of whole black cumin seeds, 2 inch of cinnamon, 2 pcs of green cardamom and a bay leaf and saute for few minutes.

Make a smooth paste of wet masala ingredients : 2 1/2 inch of ginger, 10 cloves of garlic, 2 big diced onions, 2 small diced tomatoes and 6 pcs of green chili. Add this paste to the pan, and saute it.

3. Add 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp of red pepper powder, 1 tbsp of cumin powder, 2 green chillis slits, and salt and sugar as per your taste. Fry it till brown and leaves oil from all sides of masala.

how to prepare dry crab meat curry recipe

Add previously fried chopped crabs to this masala. Toss it well. Add little water, 1 tbsp of ghee, 1/2 tbsp garam masala and give it a mix. Cover it. After 4-5 mins, check if the water has all dried up. Toss it till you attain a dry gravy and you are recipe-ready.

SERVE WITH STEAMING RICE OR PARANTHAS.

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