Delicious crab curry/masala

Ever since my childhood, I have loved seafood. I still remember the time my mom used to make crab curry at home, I used to love eating those. So I thought of making a crab curry myself.

There are few things we need to remember before cooking a perfect crab dish, properly clean, then break/dismantle crab and the most important part crab should be alive. I used the crab that we get from Chilika Lake(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilika_Lake). The seafood found there are of wonderful taste. 

There are many ways to kill a live crab, you can either break there legs or you can put them in boiling water( similar way we kill a lobster). 

 Ingredients I used for this crab curry were

          1. Crab

          2. Turmeric

          3. Red chili powder

          4. Salt

          5. Oil

          6. Onion

          7. Green chili

          8. Garam masala masala

          9. Bay leaf
    First clean the crab and then break them and keep aside. Once that is done, finely chop the onions and green chilies.Then heat the oil in a container, added a little bit of sugar in hot oil (this gives some color to the curry). When sugar is heated and starts bubbling, I put bay leaves into it. Then added chopped onions and green chilies. Fried them until the onions were golden brown. Once the onions were done, added zinger and garlic paste, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt and chili powder. Fried them till oil started coming out of the mixture. Then added the crab and stir it for some time until the color of the shell starts turning red, then you know that crab has been cooked properly.