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Mama Sita's

Oriental Crab Rice

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A unique Chinese rice dish made of mud crab, shiitake mushroom, glutinous rice, and Mama Sita’s Oyster Sauce.

  • Cooking time: Cook 20 min
  • Yield: 5-7
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Ingredients: 12 ingredients
  • Steps: 4 steps

First published

Crab and mushroom rice with spring onions in a bowl
Oriental Crab Rice

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. In a pot, boil crabs in water until cooked. Remove and drain. Cut into half, and get 5 ½ cups of stock. Set aside.

  2. Saute garlic, onion, ginger and shiitake in oil. Add the glutinous rice and plain rice. Saute for 1 minute.

  3. Add the stock, sesame oil and Mama Sita’s Oyster Sauce. Stir well. Add the crabs.

  4. Bring to a boil and simmer with constant stirring. Cover and cook until the rice is done. Garnish with chopped spring onions before serving.

Pair it with

Rice with mussels served in a hollowed squash shell on a banana leaf

Tahong Bringhe

  • Cooking time: Cook 20 min
  • Yield: 2-4
  • Difficulty: Intermediate