Ingredients

• 450 g - lobster
• 6 - fresh red chillies
• 5 cloves - garlic
• 2 stalks - spring onions
• 1 bunch - coriander
• 3 tbsp - vegetable oil
• Ingredients for Sauce:
• 5 tbsp - tomato ketchup
• Sugar to taste
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp - pound salted brown soya bean paste
• 1 cup - water
• 1.5 tsp - corn flour
• 1/2 tsp - freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1/2 tsp - dark soya sauce

How to Make Chilli Crabs

• To prepare shellfish:
• Wash the lobsters, chop off the tail and head, and chop the body, with shell still on, into thumb length pieces
• Add head and tail of lobster into boiling water and cook till the shell turns red
• Remove from water and set aside.
• Method:
• Peel garlic and grind with chillies in a food processor
• Wash spring onions and cut into finger lengths. Cut coriander into one-inch lengths.
• Mix sauce ingredients, except lime juice.
• Heat wok, add oil and when hot, add the garlic-chilli paste, stir fry for one minute, add lobster pieces.
• Stir fry for 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the sauce. Cover with a lid and let simmer over high heat for 5 to 7 minutes.
• Remove lid, squeeze the lime juice over it, stir well and add spring onions.
• Turn heat off, stir well and serve, garnish with coriander leaves.