Crab xacuti
This is a popular Goan recipe prepared with seafood and even chicken as a main ingredients. The dish is rich with coastal flavors and spicy with the fresh grounded roasted spices. The crab used here is soft shell crabs which have shells soft as egg shell are fleshy ,succulent ,sweet and juicy.
- Time: 35 min
- Servings: 3
Source: Indrani's food and technology blog
Ingredients
- to 8 crabs
- onion
- to mato
- tamarind pulp dissolved in 1/4 cup of warm water
- ginger garlic paste 2 tbsp
- fresh extracted coconut milk
- to 5 curry leaves
- salt to taste
- to 8 Red Chilies
- scraped coconut
- to 10 black pepper
- cumin seeds
- fennel seeds
- poppy seeds
- Corriander Seeds
- inch cinnamon stick
- to 5 cloves
- to 4 green cardamom
- th of a nutmeg
- Mace flower
- of mustard seeds
- of fenugreek seeds