Simple Crabs Bee Hoon (No milk version)
Crabs - any amount cut into 4
Thick or thin bee hoon
Ginger - 6 or more slices
Garlic - 5 cloves (half them)
Big onion - cut into thick strips
Spring onion - 3 or more stalks, remove the root. leave it as stalk for cooking
Thin Bee Hoon
- soak the thin dried bee hoon
Stock
you can make stock by
1) using ikan bilis
2) using instant chicken or ikan bilis stock
3) packet soup stock
Seasoning
Cooking wine - 1/3 cup or more
fish sauce - 1 tbsp
pepper
Method
1) Clean the crabs and chops into 4 pieces. Set aside.
2) Heat the wok, add oil, ginger, garlic and onion to stir fry for 2 min
3) At high heat, add in the crabs, do a quick stir fry for 2 mins.
4) Add in cooking wine and fish sauce. stir fry to mix well.
5) Add in stock. Be careful when you add in the stock as it will suddenly
boils up due to high heat. Add in the spring onion.
6) Stock must cover over the crabs, if not enough stock you can add water
7) Cover the wok with a lid and cook until the crabs turns red.
If you going to eat immediately, you can add in the bee hoon, taste the soup
and adjust the seasoning accordingly.
If you are not eating immediately or wanted to use the crab stock for steamboat.
pick out all the crabs once it turns red. Pick up the ginger, garlic, onion, spring onion
as we wanted to keep the soup clean for steamboat base.
only add the crabs back into the steamboat when eating. Didnt want the
crabs to soak inside the stock and lose it sweetness.