Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, my pizza fritta: the singapore black pepper crab. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
My Pizza Fritta: The Singapore Black Pepper Crab is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. My Pizza Fritta: The Singapore Black Pepper Crab is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
My Pizza Fritta: The Singapore Black Pepper Crab I had been thinking of revisiting all of my past pizza fritta series, especially when I had found a way to "enhance" the dough, so why not? Speaking of "enhancement", I learnt a neat trick from the guys selling Navajo Tacos aka Fried Tacos, which is adding milk to the flour instead of water. My Pizza Fritta: The Singapore Black Pepper Crab I had been thinking of revisiting all of my past pizza fritta series, especially when I had found a way to "enhance" the dough, so why not?
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have my pizza fritta: the singapore black pepper crab using 29 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make My Pizza Fritta: The Singapore Black Pepper Crab:
- Get Black Pepper Crab:
- Get 1 Handful Curry Leaves,
- Prepare 1 TBSP Unsalted Butter,
- Take 3 Shallots Finely Minced,
- Get 3 Cloves Garlic Finely Minced,
- Make ready 1 1/2 TSP Black Pepper,
- Take 1/2 TSP White Pepper,
- Get Fresh Red Chilies Deseeded Finely Sliced, 2 or More If You Are Awesome
- Make ready 125 g Good Quality Crab Meat Fresh or Frozen,
- Take 1/2 TSP Hoisin Sauce,
- Prepare 1 1/2 TBSP Vegetarian Oyster Sauce,
- Get 1 1/2 TBSP Light Soy Sauce,
- Get 1 1/2 TBSP Pure Honey,
- Make ready Cheese Sauce:
- Take 1/2 TBSP Unsalted Butter,
- Get 1/2 TBSP Bleached All Purpose Flour,
- Take 3/4 Cup Chicken Stock,
- Get 1/4 Cup Gruyere Freshly Shredded,
- Get 1/8 Cup Low Moisture Mozzarella Freshly Shredded,
- Make ready 1/2 TBSP Parmigiano Reggiano Freshly Grated,
- Prepare Pinch Sea Salt,
- Take Deep-Fried Pizza / Pizza Fritta "Montanara" Dough, 3 Dough Balls
- Get Pizza:
- Make ready Extra Virgin Olive Oil, For Frying
- Prepare 1 Handful Curry Leaves,
- Make ready 1 Handful Fresh Coriander Coarsely Chopped,
- Prepare Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Frying
- Get Japanese Mayo, For Garnishing
- Take Pure Honey, For Drizzling
Speaking of "enhancement", I learnt a neat trick from the guys selling Navajo Tacos aka Fried Tacos, which is adding milk to the flour instead of water. For the best black pepper crab, head to Long Beach Seafood (multiple locations in Singapore). There are a few things Singaporeans cannot live without, chicken rice, air conditioning and quite possibly crab. We love our crab here, it's even one of our greatest national dishes.
Steps to make My Pizza Fritta: The Singapore Black Pepper Crab:
- Pls visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/single-post/2017/02/16/Pizza-Fritta-Dough for the pizza dough.
- Pls visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/single-post/2017/01/03/Making-Pizza-At-Home for how to shape your pizza dough.
- Prepare the black pepper crab. - - Stack the curry leaves and roll it into a cigar log shape. - - Finely slice the leaves and set aside. - - In a skillet over medium heat, add in butter.
- As soon as the butter start to melt, add in shallots. - - Saute until translucent. - - Add in garlic and saute until aromatic. - - Add in black pepper, white pepper, sliced curry leaves, crab meat and chili.
- Saute until the curry leaves have wilted and the mixture is well combine. - - Add in hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, light soy sauce and honey. - - Stir to combine well. - - Remove from heat and set aside.
- Prepare the cheese sauce. - - In a sauce pot over medium heat, add in butter and flour. - - Whisk to combine. - - Continue whisking until the mixture is pale yellowish.
- Gradually add in the chicken stock while still whisking vigorously to prevent any lumps. Whisk, whisk, whisk. - - Add the black pepper crab mixture gradually while still whisking. - - Whisk to combine well. - - Gradually add the 3 cheeses while still whisking.
- Continue whisking until all the cheeses are melted. - - Remove from heat and set aside.
- Deep fry and assemble the pizza. - - Prepare a dutch oven or a deep fryer with at least 3 inches of oil. - - The ratio of canola oil to olive oil is 4:1. - - If you use 1 cup of canola oil, your olive oil should be 1/4 cup. - - Olive oil is bad for deep frying as it has low smoking point. It is used, in this recipe however, for flavoring. - - Drop a small pinch of dough into the oil. If it starts to sizzle, the temperature of the oil is ready.
- After shaping the pizza dough, gently and carefully, drop the pizza dough into the oil away from you. - - Deep fry until bottom is golden brown. - - Using tongs to carefully flip the pizza dough. - - Deep fry until golden brown on the other side as well.
- Using tongs to carefully transfer the pizza dough onto a wire cooling rack or a plate lined with kitchen paper to drain off excess oil. - - While the oil is still hot, add in a handful of curry leaves. - - As soon as the leaves stop sizzling remove from heat and set aside to drain off excess oil.
- Careful as adding the curry leaves into oil will splatter.* - - Immediately, spoon and spread the black pepper crab cheese mixture over the pizza dough. - - Top the pizza off with small dollops of mayo. - - *You can use a piping bag with a star tip if you wanna get fancy, or you can simply use a squeeze bottle.*
- Next, using scissors, cut the coriander over the top. - - Top with some of the fried curry leaves. - - Finally, drizzle honey over the pizza in a spiral motion. - - Repeat the steps for the remaining pizza. - - Slice and serve immediately.
But there's more to crabs in Singapore than just Chilli Crab. The star of this dish was not the crab, but the sauce that came with it (more accurately that it was bathing in) and the small round cakes, almost dumplings, whose sole purposes was to aid the. Eng Seng 永成餐室 (yong cheng can shi) is pretty famous specifically for it's black pepper crab. However, when I lived in Singapore I also really liked their chili crab. We should do a poll to see whether there are more Chilli Crab lovers or Black Pepper Crab lovers.
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