Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bengali spicy crab curry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bengali Style Crab Curry which is called as Kakrar Jhal in Bengali is a sea food gravy prepared using crab and potatoes. Onion, ginger, garlic and dry spices are used to prepare the base of this gravy. However, the crab has its own taste, so addition of crab makes this gravy exotic.
Bengali spicy crab curry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Bengali spicy crab curry is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bengali spicy crab curry using 25 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bengali spicy crab curry:
- Get medium sized crabs cut and cleaned
- Make ready medium onions chopped
- Prepare medium tomatoes chopped
- Prepare medium potatoes cuts long 1 into 4 pieces
- Make ready ginger paste
- Get garlic paste
- Make ready green chilli paste
- Get red chilli powder
- Make ready Kashmiri powder
- Get cumin powder
- Prepare corriender powder
- Make ready garam masala powder
- Make ready turmeric powder
- Get black pepper
- Prepare Salt
- Take Sugar optional
- Make ready Oil
- Take Ghee optional
- Make ready For tempering
- Take bay leaf
- Prepare red chilli
- Take cumin whole
- Take cinnamon stick 1" each
- Make ready green cardamoms
- Take cloves
My most favorite food in the world is CRABS! In this step-by-step video, I will be showing, how to make Crab Curry easily at home. Bongs prefer their runny Murgir Jhol (chicken curry) or Kochi Pathar Jhol (mutton curry) along with big chunks of potatoes. However, while making Crab Curry I have added potato wedges instead of big chunks.
Instructions to make Bengali spicy crab curry:
- Marinate cut cleaned pieces crabs with salt and turmeric for 15 mins. Then fry for 2-3 mins in medium flame each sides.
- In same kadai, put more oil and add tempering. A nice aroma of spices will come with sputtering sound of cumin. Then add potatoes followed by onions. Cook in low flame untill onions gets golden. Don't put salt here. Add ginger,garlic and chilli paste followed by tomatoes. Cook medium flame, adding salt and turmeric now.
- After putting tomatoes within 1-2 mins puts crab pieces and cook. Stir it intervally. Here put rest of spices and cook another 4-5 mins untill oil separate started. All masala will be nicely blended with crabs.
- Put hot water and cook high flame with lid. Add salt if required. Cook 10-15 mins untill you get thick consistency gravy. Before switch off flame add garam masala, ghee, sugar and give a nice stir for 1 min.
- Serve hot with steam rice.
Rest is the use of some basic spices to make the curry which ended on a finger licking Crab Curry or Kakrar Jhal. The curry tends to be a little extra spicy so that the masala permeates nicely into the crab. Don't get me wrong, I love simple crab meat dipped in melted butter as much as the next person, but there is something divine about a spicy Indian crab curry that you can only understand once you've tried it. Crab Curry from Bengal Kekra Curry Bengali Rakesh Kumar Gupta. Note from Mamta: This is the only proper dish that my husband Rakesh cooks.
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