Battered & Fried Soft Shell Crabs

Soft Shell Crabs is a familiar seafood menu when you dining in Japanese restaurant. There are so many ways that you can have your soft shell crabs such as soft shell crab sushi, soft shell crab salad etc. However in order to do varieties of soft shell crab dishes, first you have to know how to make a good battered and fried soft shell crabs.

Battered & Fried Soft Shell Crabs

Ingredients

2 Frozen Soft Shell Crabs, defrost for 4 hours
1 Egg
5 Tablespoon Corn Flour
Salt
Pepper
Oil for Frying

Method

1. Squeeze a little bit the crab to get rid of the excess water from the defrost.
2. Heat oil for frying in a pan
3. Cut the crab into half.
4. Season the crab with salt and pepper
5. Then beat one egg in a bowl and pour the egg on top of the crab.
6. Coat the crabs with corn flour by patting the corn flour in the crab
7. Put it into heated oil and fry until crab golden brown before take the crab out and put into a paper towel to get rid of the excess oil from the crab.
8. Serve with chilli sauce and rice or salad with lemon dressing.



Tips for cleaning the soft shell crabs:

Using the scissors, cut the front of the soft shell crab about 1cm behind the eyes and the mouth. Lift the skin of the crab from the side and cut off the gray colour grill. Do the same on the other side of the crab. Then turn around the crab and cut off the the apron of the crab which may have oval shape or V shape depends on the gender of the crabs. Then pat dry the crabs with paper towel. For Illustrative demonstration, I have made a link to the cooksillustrated website for easy understanding.