Ginger Scallon Crab over Fried Rice


This Dungeness crab dish is one of my favorites. Using the classic Chinese style ginger scallion recipe. The usually rule of thumb is 1 crab per person. That can get mighty expensive at times. So, by adding fried rice to the recipe, it makes an excellent meal for 2. The fried rice in this recipe is intensely flavored with crab essence. This recipe is very hard work, but its well worth it. Be ready to get your hands dirty!

Note: You do not have to use fried rice. You can just eat the ginger scallion crab as a dish by itself or with plain steam rice.


Ingredients

Ginger Scallion Crab

1.5lb Live Dungeness Crab
2 inch ginger root, slice into thin medallions
5 stalks of Scallion (green onions), cut into 2 inch pieces
3 Garlic cloves minced
1/2 cup chicken broth
Corn Starch
1 tbsp Shao Xing cooking wine
3 tsp Oyster Sauce
Cooking oil

Fried Rice

2 cups Cooked Rice
3 eggs (beaten)
1 cup diced Onions
2 tbsp light soy sauce
Crab blood
3 garlic gloves minced
4 chili peppers, diced (optional)

Instructions

Kill the crab by stabbing it in the underside, then harvest the blood, set aside in bowl.
Remove the underside flap and discard.
Remove the crabs top carapace and harvest the yellow glands, membranes and liquids and
place in the same crab blood bowl.
Remove crab gills, mouth mandibles and stomach sack and discard.
Twist off legs and claws then crack them with a kitchen mallet or back of knife.
Break the body in half and cut them into 6 pieces.
Place all crab parts aside and place in fridge.
Prep the Onions, garlic, Scallions and ginger. Mix 1 tbsp of corn starch in a small bowl
with 1 tbsp of cold water.
Dust the crab parts with corn starch powder in a large bowl.
Heat up a wok with about 10 tbsp of cooking oil on medium high.
Deep fry the crab parts starting with body first, then legs and claws for 3 minutes while
stirring. (you can either cook the crab's carapace for display or discard it)
Remove the crab and set aside. Drain oil and retain about 2 tbsp in wok.
Throw in ginger, garlic, and 1/3 of the white part of the scallions in the wok and stir
fry for 30 seconds.
Add in cooking wine and oyster sauce and stir fry for another 30 seconds.
Add chicken broth and stir for 1 minute.
Add corn starch/water mix 1 tsp at a time and stir until the sauce thickens.
Add in crab parts and stir fry for another 3 minutes.
Add in the rest of the scallions and stir fry for 1 minute.
Remove crab and place aside on a plate.

Wash the wok and reheat 1 1/2 tbsp of cooking oil to medium high heat.
Add in beaten eggs and cook, leaving it flat.
Remove eggs and slice into pieces, set aside.
Add another tbsp of cooking oil and heat up medium high.
Add in some garlic, after 10 seconds add in diced onions and chili peppers and stir fry for 1 minute.
Turn the heat to high, and add in Rice, eggs then stir fry for 30 seconds.
Add in soy sauce and stir fry for another 30 seconds.
Scrap the fried rice to one side of the wok, and add in the entire bowl of crab blood and glands and stir around for 30 seconds.
Now, mix everything up and stir fry everything in the wok for 1 minute.
Remove fried rice and place on a plate. Pour the Crab and its sauce on top.
Serve Immediately.

Start off with fresh Live crab always!


The underside



The ingredients


Shank the crab in its abdomen. This will bleed it and make the body easier to split.


Let it bleed to death, harvest the white crab blood.


Pull up on the crabs carapace. Basically rips its head off


The blood and glands. Very good stuff.


Remove and discard unedible parts. Manibles, gills and stomach.


Break the body in half and cut the body into 6-8 pieces.

Crack the legs and claws. This is what the pieces should look like.


Dust crab pieces in corn starch


Deep frying body pieces first


Then legs are claws, Carapace (head) optional. I use it for display.


Cut up the garlic, ginger and scallions


Stir frying veggies


Corn starch and water mix


Shaoxing cooking wine, USE NO OTHER!


Make sure the sauce covers every part of the crab

Beat eggs and have the crab blood rdy


Dice onions


Cook the egg first


Shred it up


Stir fry onions, chili and garlic


Fried rice


The fnished product

"Shank" the crab. Lmao, awesome.

Looks delicious.

Looks like alot of work but well worth it, Now I'm Hungry

Looks Great~!

Looks very complicated to make.

Plenty of great meals are, but they're usually worth it hehe.

Not too complicated. Hardest part is preparing the crab. You get faster after a while. I can cut up a lobster or crab under 3 minutes. The rest is stir frying.

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