How To Make Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab: Asian Bites

In this episode of Asian Bites chef Rich Harris shows you how to make a spectacular deep fried soft shell crab with a kepal manis dipping sauce. This dish is typical of Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam and makes a perfect starter.
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Prep:30m
Cook:2m
Total:32m
Serves:4
Ingredients:
8 frozen soft shell crab, defrosted
30 g cornflour
30 g plain flour
vegetable oil for frying
1 bunch spring onions, chopped
1 red chilli, finely sliced
2 cloves garlic, peeled
2 green birdseye chillies, sliced
1 tbsp kecap manis
sriracha chilli sauce
Step 1: Make The Chilli Salt
Put 1 finely chopped red chilli and a peeled clove of garlic into a pestle and mortar. Gradually add the 4 tbsp of salt and pound the ingredients together. Pound until you have used up all the salt and are left with a pink paste with no pieces of chilli. Transfer the salt into a dish and put to the side.
Step 2: Make The Dipping Sauce
Finely slice your green birdseye chillies and place into a bowl. Add the juice of a lime and 1 clove of garlic, roughly chopped. Pour in 1 tbsp of kecap manis and give all the ingredients a good stir together.
Step 3: Prepare The Crabs
Roughly chop up a bunch of spring onions and place into a dish. In a separate bowl mix together the corn flour and plain flour and then toss each of the crabs in the flour ensuring they are evenly coated. Heat your oil in a large wok and deep fry the crabs in batches for 2 minutes until golden brown and crispy. Drain thoroughly on kitchen paper.
Step 4: Serve
While the crabs are still warm and have just come out of the oil, sprinkle over a pinch of the chilli salt and the chopped spring onions. Serve the crabs with the dipping sauce and some hot chilli sauce.

[@bridgettholman4074]

He's a great chef and has a comforting voice!

[@teasha35]

Born & raised in Southern Louisiana .. Grew up eating soft shells but I'm definitely trying your style of cooking these beauties! I have about 3 dozen of blue crab soft shells at the moment. That dipping sauce looks AMAZING!

[@ScoffTV]

The crabs are harvested when their shells have fallen off making them entirely edible! Give them a go-they're incredibly tasty deep fried!

[@chrisjones245]

i was brave and i tried it once as a freind had ordered it... and then i was hooked, deliscious

[@ScoffTV]

Thanks for the tips. Hope you enjoy making up the dish!

[@davefish84]

I live where these crabs come from and your rec is so spot on, I think I should open a crap shack basced on this Rec! Incredable...!

[@ScoffTV]

Definitely do! It's such a tasty dish! Let us know how it goes making it up x

[@beeblaak1649]

I’m so amazed at how people take the time to write negative comments, why??? If you’re much better, post your own. See how you’d feel when people write bad comments. 🤬

[@JohnSmith-nd8qr]

Bee Blaak wow why so sensitive?

[@ajieraaghazalyy6795]

incredible such malaysian tasteeeeee... im malaysian and everyone from my country loveeeeeee kicap cili so much! glad u like it 😍😍😍😍 oh good now im craving for this 😭

[@agustinustan5095]

Ajieraa Ghazalyy malingisal tukang maling

[@nqna490]

+Jefri Liang indosial

[@nqna490]

+Jefri Liang indonesiallll

[@nina160390]

such a malaysian taste...u really have the tongue of asian...well done!

[@hockeyplaya131]

That sounds AMAZING!!! I want to try that out as soon as I can.

[@NoDramaQueens]

Love the chili salt! A new addition to my spices.

[@ScoffTV]

So we are we! This dish is so tasty!

[@BanaIsmail]

i love it when you said "kecap manis"

[@jytwinsasmr5569]

deep fried soft shell crab is all about the spicy 🌶 sauce

[@chileBeast]

Looks great!!! I do have a question, Whenever I've eaten crabs before, I had to remove something from inside the shell. Does that need to be done with the soft shell crabs, or are they different?

[@chrisjones245]

Ive only ever eaten them, ive never prepared them

[@malyangiethao27]

I've never has this before. You can eat the shell?

[@ScoffTV]

we'll look into it. Have to admit we've never tried it but it sounds intriguing! Thanks

[@ScoffTV]

Hi chileBeast. Most soft shell crabs in Asian supermarkets are frozen and come pre-prepared. However, if you're lucky enough to find fresh soft shell crabs then lift the shell on each side and remove the gills by snipping then out with a pair of scissors. Hope this help!

[@ScoffTV]

It is indeed! You can use sweet soy sauce instead of the kecap manis no problem! Let us know how you get on making the dish. It's delicious!

[@topsail86]

thank you very much!!!! AMAZING!

[@ScoffTV]

Hi! Whoops sorry about that and thanks for drawing our attention to the flour variation. In the video Rich used rice flour and plain flour, but if you can't get hold of rice flour you can use cornstarch flour no problem. We're huge fans of soft shell crabs too. Let us know how you get on making up the dish. It's so tasty!

[@aree3517]

in the video, you said rice flour, but on the recipe you said corn flour? 1). Corn flour is it the cornstarch? 2) we have cornmeal in the US, 3) Is it rice flour and cornstarch flour or cornstarch flour and all-purpose flour? Thank you very much for sharing the recipe with us. I love soft shell crabs.

[@alisalleh3787]

To Souky Garcia (Sweet sauce mean is kicap manis) ok.

[@amandathorsen4538]

Can i do it with small crabs??

[@TheJoesmoe1987]

Do you have to clean the crab before you cook like cut anything off ?

[@sarasyed9809]

TheJoesmoe1987 yes

[@macrick]

No

[@FoodforThought12345678dsds]

possibly

[@soukygarcia]

I can't fine kecap manis anywhere, is sweet soy sauce the same thing?

[@Ray-oc8fk]

Yes

[@sushistars3296]

maan schricacha is ur favourite sauce???

[@nana240785]

what size soft shell are those? Hotels or Prime

[@TheJoesmoe1987]

Where can I get these soft shell crabs in uk

[@davidfbennett]

I order my soft shell crab from a site called King crab. The company is premier sea foods I think? But if you search king crab, their web site comes up, hope this helps.

[@N0AGI]

Well done

[@LadyMeilin]

Aw man. I'm starving.

[@jhp555]

Where can I get the soft shell crabs??? just in the normal supermarket?

[@Amyguzman773]

you could if your lucky but they should have them in asian markets because when i go to a 99 ranch market they always have them there.

[@HandySeafood]

www.handyseafoodstore.com

[@jhp555]

thank you!

[@xiaorishu]

I am sooo damn hungry now ..

[@truonganney5754]

Yum

[@thedrawingmuffins]

To make it easier powdery seasoning is to use dried pepper and chop the garlic instead of the whole garlic.

[@analaloca27]

The English word "ketchup" actually comes from the Malay/Indonesia word "kecap" "(c" pronounced "ch"). "Kecap" usually refers to soy sauce, "manis" means "sweet" and "asin" means "salty". Thus "kecap asin"= soy sauce and "kecap manis" = sweetened soy sauce.

[@quietlychattering]

And to add-on, the kecap or kicap, the ke or ki is pronounced more like English word ”key”

[@ScoffTV]

It is indeed. Not necessary for the dish but we thought it look nice...

[@prthosafe]

wait is that a leaf of banana tree at the bottom of serving dish?

[@shamimhossain4377]

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[@justinlong977]

Is this recipe spicy?

[@macrick]

HAHAHAHA!!!!

[@heathera612]

The man likes spicy food and a lot of garlic. Please marry me.

[@wowwow7959]

I never heard about it

[@Michaelcham93]

Kecap manis Is call sweet soy sauce

[@WolfeYankee]

What I do is go to my local Chinese restaurant and get it.

[@Dylans503]

Are you using a round bottom wok on a glass stove top?...lol

[@reamsgregoryb]

Sriracha before it was everywhere. Didn't even call it Sriracha

[@azyanihamid1910]

so

[@lizethrodriguez3516]

This looks good but isnt the poop still inside ?

[@gotritons]

bro, don't you gotta clean the crab first? like take the face off? and since when was huy fong sriracha sauce from thailand? USA!

[@ZaZeem]

It's From Thailand not America .

[@ttran07]

ŽÀÎÑÁŁ ÀŽÉÉM It's produced in California by a Vietnamese man. Has nothing to do with Thailand.

[@ZaZeem]

ttran07 it's made from Thailand . Buy one yourself and see the cover . No hard feelings :)

[@ttran07]

Sriracha is a sauce that originated in Thaialnd yes. The popular version with the rooster is made in America. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods)

[@ZaZeem]

ttran07 okay u got me ! ;)

[@Grace54893]

Did you eat the shell??????

[@toivadan]

YUP, U EAT EVERYTHING WITH SOFTSHELL CRAB

[@lindsaycombalicer8456]

Those are not bird's eye chilies..

[@Zidaman]

You seem to like spicy.

[@RagggedTrouseredPhilanthropist]

How is it possible to be a chef and still think that the heat from a chili comes from the seeds?!?! If someone gets something as basic as that wrong, you have to wonder.

[@footballboots69]

It does you Bigot

[@yayaISyaya]

+footballboots69 go & read some reliable research from chili experts & you'll understand that seeds do not provide the heat yet there's another way to reduce it.

[@macrick]

soak it in warm water for an hour. it will help.

[@Djinner13]

Some of the heat comes from the seeds. Anyone who has spent time cooking would know that.... go eat a chilli without seeds and one with and tell me which one is spicier.

[@_g-qs5ou]

who’s watching this is 2021

[@ac.s246]

Shut the fuck up

[@canhandletruth]

Love the idea of white folks cooking Asian food. This guy cannot control the oil temp. The oil isnt hot enough, so the coating of flour is actually coming off the crab!

[@ahhwe-any7434]

He tried. Why r u so hateful tho? I'm the Asian American... But can't say I've ever ate this before. 😑🧐

[@jonnusjones2512]

dont tast during making,,.. it look creepy

[@m.a.packer5450]

He's not Chinese

[@ajieraaghazalyy6795]

incredible such malaysian tasteeeeee... im malaysian and everyone from my country loveeeeeee kicap cili so much! glad u like it 😍😍😍😍 oh good now im craving for this 😭

[@Ray-oc8fk]

Me too and I'm Malaysian aka Sarawakian ksskskskks