On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:47:43 GMT, Kathy in NZ wrote:
>
> Yes it was messy, but delicious, and I was surprised how much meat was
> in the bodies, much easier to get at than I expected and absolutely
> delicious.
>
> In the end I made stir-fry chilli crabs using the wok burner of the
> barbecue. I won't use that particular recipe again without refining it
> as the sauce was too heavy on tomato sauce, but the concept was great
> and the crabs were fantastic, even though they *were* frozen, raw
> blue swimmer crabs (from India).
>
> Here's a pic of the final dish.
> http://tinypic.com/fxgw9x.jpg
>
I'm unclear on the concept of cooking crab in the shell with any sort
of sauce. Doesn't the sauce come off with the shell? If so, why
waste your time?
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