
INGREDIENTS:-
½ cup crab meat (2 crabs, weighing about 1 lb)
2 slices ginger, (2 stalks spring onion)
6 egg whites
1 ¼ cups milk
3 tbsps cornflour
1 oz cooked ham (finely chopped)
1 oz vermicelli
Oil for deep frying (lard for better results)
Seasoning:-
¾ tsp. salt
½ tsp. monosodium glutamate
METHOD:-
- Clean crabs and steam with ginger and spring onion for 20 minutes. Pound to crush shell, extract all the crab meat from crabs.
- Mix milk with cornflour and egg whites, stir well and add in seasoning and crab meat.
- Deep fry vermicelli in hot oil until crispy; place on dish.
- Deep fry crab meat batter in very warm oil (150F), push it gently with spatula until it curdles. Drain pour over crispy vermicelli, sprinkle with finely chopped ham. Serve hot.
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