Ingredients
- Crab – 1
- Small Onion – 20 (shallots)
- Oil – 2 tablespoons
- Garlic – 10
- Ginger – 1 inch
- Coriander leaves – few
- Green Chilli – 2
- Tomato – 1
- Cumin – 1/4 tablespoon
- Coriander – 1/4 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder – 2 pinches
- Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
- Water – 1 litre
- Cumin powder – 2 pinches
- Pepper powder – 1/2 tablespoon
Things to be done before we start cooking
- Take 1 crab – Wash and clean the crab.
- Peel the skin of 20 shallots. Crush them a little using ‘mortar and pestle’.
- Peel the skin of 10 cloves of garlic, crush them using ‘mortar and pestle’.
- Take ginger – 1 inch size, cut them into small pieces using ‘mortar and pestle’.
- Tomato – 1 medium sized, cut them into smaller pieces.
Steps to Prepare
- Place a pan (3 litre capacity or even bigger) on the burner, turn on the stove, keep flame in HIGH mode.
- Once the pan gets a little hot, Turn the flame to LOW MODE. Then do the following –
- Pour in 2 tablespoons of oil.
- Put in the crushed small onions (20 small onions crushed).
- Stir a little till onions get soft, never fry till they turn light brown.
- Add the crushed garlic (10 cloves), stir a little for 10 seconds. Then, add crushed ginger and stir for 5 seconds.
- Now, put in few coriander leaves and 2 green chillies (no need to cut the chillies – put them as whole). Stir a little for 5 seconds.
- Add the pieces of tomato (1 medium sized) – stir for just 10 seconds.
- Now let’s add the below –
- Cumin – 1/4 tbsp
- Coriander – 1/4 tbsp
- Turmeric powder – 2 pinches
- Stir well.
- Put in the crab (1 piece) – we can put the crab as a whole – no need to break the legs and add as small pieces. If needed we can break the legs and add crab into soup.
- Then add the below –
- Salt – 1/4 tbsp
- Water – 1 litre
- Stir a little.
- Let’s follow the below steps –
- Close the pan with a lid.
- Turn the flame to HIGH MODE.
- In 2 minutes, the water will come to boiling temperature.
- Now, turn the flame to LOW MODE.
- Let the contents get cooked for the next 15 minutes in low mode
- Now, remove the lid, stir gently for 5 seconds. Then add –
- Cumin powder – 2 pinches
- Black Pepper powder – 1/2 tbsp or (little less if we need less spice in soup)
- Stir well to mix.
- Let the contents cook in low flame for another 1 minute.
- Then sprinkle mint leaves on the top. Turn off the flame.
- Our soup is ready to be tasted.
