How to cook Roasted crab with tamarind

1.  Ingredients:

– Sea crab: 1.2kg
– Onion: 1 bulb
– Ripe tamarind: ½ of cup
– Garlic: remove skin, finely chopped
– Chilli: some of slices
– Sugar: 2 teaspoons
– Seasoning powder: 3 tablespoons
– Cooking oil: 2 tablespoons

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2. Instructions:

– To wash crabs under running water, and brush it with a toothbrush to remove dirt, brush shell, leg. Separate shell crab with his body, cut the crab into 4 pieces.

– To use back of knife to broke palms, so it could absorb easily.

– To soak tamarind in hot water, well-squeezed, extract tamarind juice through sieve (about a cup of juice). Then, add sugar, seasoning powder in tamarind juice, well-stirred.

– To put cooking oil in a pan, fried garlic, add crab and continue to fry. When crab turns red color, add tamarind juice, turn down the heat, stir slightly until tamarind juice is so thick.

– Add onion, chilli, well-stirred. Turn off stove, pour crab on a dish, decorate with shell.

This dish serve hot.