Indonesian Recipes (Bali, Java) - Crab with Pineapple Sambal (Kepiting Kukus) Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 large crab

• 1 stem lemon grass

• 1 stem leek 

For the pineapple sambal:

• 1 clove garlic

• 3 slices fresh pineapple (or canned)

• juice of 1/2 lime

• 1 teaspoon salt

• coarsely ground pepper

• 1 piece ginger root, about 5 mm/3/16 in long

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Method:

1. Clean the crabs, remove the top part of the shell and stuff the crab with lemon grass and leeks. Steam until they turn bright red.

2. It is served with a variation of pineapple sambal (refer recipe) that is better suited to this crab dish.

3. To make this variation, cut the garlic into wafer-thin slices, fry in the oil and puree all the other ingredients coarsely.

4. For extra heat, cut two small red chilies and one green one into thin slices and add. Stir the garlic and the rest of the ingredients together. Serve with the steamed crab.