Cracked Crab in Plum Sauce and Garlic

Serves

2

Ingredients

• 1 large, live mud crab

• 2 tablespoons oil

• 5 or 6 cloves chopped garlic

• 2 chillies, thinly sliced (more or less, dependent on taste)

• ¾ cup plum sauce (recipe below)

• 2 spring onions, sliced in 2cm pieces

Plum Sauce

• 375g plum jam

• 2 tablespoons vinegar

• 1 tablespoon soft dark brown sugar

• 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion

• 1 clove garlic, crushed

• ½ teaspoon ground ginger

• 2 tablespoons Trident Sweet Chilli Hot Sauce (or Trident Sweet Chilli Sauce for the faint of heart)

Instructions:

• To make the sauce, heat all ingredients thoroughly in saucepan over medium heat until sugar is melted and ingredients are blended. Put aside.

• Place the mud crab in the freezer for an hour.

• Remove the crab from the freezer and clean. Remove gills and other inedible parts. Chop legs, claws and body into pieces.

• Heat oil in wok and stir-fry crab, garlic and chillies until crab turns orange
  (3-4 minutes).

• Toss with plum sauce until coated.

• You may add more plum sauce if needed. Just before serving, toss in shallots and then serve on a large platter.