Description
Buntaa is a Filipino dish made with Crabs are stuffed with fresh coconut and crab fat cooked in spiced coconut milk.
Ingredients
- 2 kgs large female crabs, cleaned then chilled
- 1 cup shredded young coconut meat
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 1/2 cup coconut cream
- 2 stalks spring onions, chopped
- 8 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp minced ginger
- 2 green chili peppers, sliced
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Prepare the crabs by pulling the top shells off of the crabs, discard the inedible bits, the only parts needed are the crab roe and crab fat (the orange bits). Carefully scrape into a bowl all crab roe and crab fat. Clean the crab body and shells gently with running water.
- In a large bowl mix together coconut meat, crab roe, crab fat, spring onions, half of the minced garlic, ginger, red onion and salt.
- Fill the reserved crab shells and body with the coconut-crab fat mixture and reassemble the crabs and tie them together with kitchen string. Set any liquid aside.
- In a large pot, combine the coconut milk, remaining garlic and chili peppers. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Gently Add the crabs to the pot and cook for 5-7 minutes, or until they are cooked through. Once the crabs turn orange in colour pour in coconut cream and the liquid that was set aside.
- Bring the mixture back to a boil and then reduce the heat to low. Simmer for more minutes.
- Season with fish sauce and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
- Serve with rice on the side. Enjoy!
Notes
You can add more aligue if the one from the crabs are not enough. Ideally you should be able to get 2 tbsp of aligue and roe per fat female crab, if not you can top it up using the bottled aligue you can find in your supermarket.
wow…this looks absolutely heavenly! Can’t remember when I last had some crabs :-// Miss them badly.
Such a colourful looking crab dish! Yum!
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What a showstopping dish! The seasonings along with the coconut milk makes the crab so rich and heavenly!
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This sounds so delicious! I love crab but have never tried it prepared this way. I’ll have to give it a go!
We do love seafood around here, and I’ve definitely never come across crab prepared in this way. Not only does it sound delicious, but it looks really cool, too! I love how the entire claws are served with the dish. Great job, Raymund!
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THis looks absolutely amazing!
So beautiful on the plate — I can only imagine how good it tastes!
Its good but at the same time messy