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Mama Sita's

Tortang Alimasag

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Crab meat, carrots, and potato are cooked in Mama Sita’s Menudo Afritada Mix and bound with a butter-flour white sauce, then packed into the crab shell, dipped in egg, and fried. Garnish with chopped parsley.

  • Cooking time: Cook 30 min
  • Yield: 3
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Ingredients: 14 ingredients
  • Steps: 6 steps

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Fried stuffed crab shells garnished with chopped parsley
Tortang Alimasag

Ingredients

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Garnish

Instructions

  1. Heat oil in a pan, saute garlic and onion until translucent

  2. Add the crab meat, boiled carrots, and boiled potatoes. Stir and mix well.

  3. Add the dissolved Mama Sita’s Menudo Afritada Mix and ground black pepper. Cook until the liquid has evaporated. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.

  4. To make the white sauce; heat pan and melt butter, add the flour and mix well. Add milk, bring to a boil, and whisk well until sauce has thickened. Set aside.

  5. Combine the crab meat filling and the white sauce. Fill the crab shell with 2 tablespoons of filling. Dip in beaten egg and pan fry or deep fry for 3-5 minutes.

  6. Remove from heat and dry in paper towel. Transfer to a serving plate. Garnish with chopped parsley and serve.