Crab Fried Rice as Main Meal or Side Snack
By daisynicolas
It's Your Fancy Rice for that Company Potluck
We almost always get stumped what to bring to those company potluck parties where we want to impress without having to spend that much time and much money . Here is your answer. A Crab Fried Rice. It is easy, flavorful, delicious, nutritious and fulfilling.
This recipe uses Asian products not particularly Chinese and not particularly Thai. But the marriage of these ingredients is what you could call a marriage made in heaven!
Tanner Crab
You may not have heard of Tanner Crabs, but you might have eaten Snow Crabs, which are more popularly known for its marketed name. These crabs are referred to in Alaska as Tanner crabs and can be found throughout the North Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea and along the coast.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=tannercrab.main
Mis en plas
The Crab Fried Rice Recipe
Ingredients
| Quantity/Unity
| Comment
|
|---|---|---|
Cooked steamed Jasmine Rice
| 3 cups
| Has to be cold before using.
|
Water
| 4 cups
| Use water to steam rice. Use a rice cooker to make perfect rice.
|
Tanner Crab
| 1 Each
| Steamed (Use 2 cups crab meat.)
|
Vegetable Oil
| 1/4 Cup
| |
Chinese Sausage
| 2 Each Sausage
| Slice thinly
|
Shallots
| 6 Each
| Slice thinly
|
Green Bell Pepper
| 1 Medium Size
| Remove seeds and chop into 'brunoise' or small square pieces
|
Carrot
| 1 Each
| Peel and shred
|
Scotch Pepper
| 1 Each
| Remove seeds and mince.
|
Eggs
| 2 Medium Size Each
| Cook scrambled separately with little oil.
|
Hoisin Sauce
| 1/8 Cup
| Buy from Asian section of your grocery store.
|
Kecap Manis (Sweet Soy Sauce)
| 1/8 Cup
| Substitute regular soy sauce.
|
Ground Black Pepper
| 1 TBSP
| |
Lime
| 1 Each
| Zest and squeeze all the juice.
|
Garlic is optional
| I decided not to add it because I felt that this dish could do without the garlic.
|
How To Do This Delicious Fried Rice
Easy Steps
| Remarks
| Optional
|
|---|---|---|
Steam your Jasmine Rice a day before.
| Use your rice cooker for perfect steamed rice. Cool.
| |
Steam your crab. Cool and remove the meat. Set aside.
| You can purchase crab meat or imitation crab meat if you want.
| |
Do the rest of your mis en plas (all the ingredients prepared and in place).
| See the above column for description of what to do with the rest of the ingredients, e.i, chop, slice, minced, etc.
| You are the cook of your own dish, so you could replace the ingredients if you want.
|
Get a big pot to start off by toasting the sliced Chinese sausages slightly.
| Remove from pot and set aside. Will only take 2 to 3 minutes in medium heat.
| Green Peppers could be Red Peppers
|
Add oil to pot, then the sliced shallots.
| Sweat the shallots till light golden brown.
| Add Peas, Green Onions.
|
Add the cool rice. Stir and break clumps. Add the Soy Sauce and Hoisin Sauce. Keep breaking the clumps and flavoring all the grains.
| Rice will turn color.
| |
Meanwhile, in a separate small frying pan, cook the eggs by scrambling it in a little oil. Set aside.
| ||
While the rice is getting mixed in the big pot, add the shredded carrots, diced green pepper and minced Scotch Bonnet pepper.
| Stir to incorporate.
| |
Add ground black pepper, the cooked Chinese sausage and crab meat and the scrambled eggs.
| Keep that stirring to incorporate.
| |
Spritz the lime juice and distribute the lime zest. Adjust the spices according to your taste.
| Serve warm.
|
Chinese Sausage
This is a popular brand seen in most Asian stores. Chinese sausages or 'Lap Chong,' are smoked cured spiced sausages made of pork and pork fat seasoned with rice wine and soy sauce. Because of its potent flavor, one or two sausages will be enough for this recipe. Best to stir-fry it quickly without oil. Be watchful when you do stir-fry Chinese sausages on their own as they can easily burn.
Chinese sausages can be stored in your refrigerator well-wrapped for months.
The Finished Product
Impress your family and friends with your new found culinary mastery of a traditional Asian dish.
This Crab Fried Rice can be eaten on its own or partnered with your favorite Asian-influenced dish that are fried, steamed or sautéed..
If you live alone, make this whole recipe and freeze the rest. How about 'take out' order from your own kitchen? It is worth every grain.
Comments
Thank you for commenting. Indonesian food is delicious in its own right.
Nicely done! I love the way you detailed the ingredients and instructions in tables. It makes every step clear. Great idea and the recipe sounds delicious!
I almost had it for breakfast today, and I thought I'm just being a pig. So got to wait for dinner. Thank you for your compliments.
seafood fried rice ,. have you heard about that,..its so delicious.
in Indonesia we can add so many new ingredient into our fried rice recipe.
Of course, nowadays where everything and almost all information are global and can easily be found in all types of media especially the internet, almost nothing is considered secret or surprising.
SOOooOooOoOo delicious.
Luti Febrian W 3 months ago
this is one of common menu in indonesia, and i loved it so much...