Referred to as Singapore’s national dish, the Chilli Crab is a treat for seafood lovers everywhere!

While there are several stories floating around regarding the history of this dish, it is believed that the very first version was invented by Cher Yam Tian in the mid 1950s when she used bottled chilli sauce instead of tomato sauce to stir fried crabs. But it is Chef Hooi Kok Wah who is credited with the creation of Singapore chilli crab as we know it today. He created a sourer version using vinegar, sambal, tomato paste and egg white in the gravy.

Chilli Crab is traditionally prepared using mud crabs but you can use any variety; the Australian blue swimmer crabs are also an excellent choice.

The traditional version of Chilli Crab involves a lot of steps starting with deep frying the crab pieces followed by preparing the chilli paste, gravy or sauce and then the crab pieces are cooked and tossed again in the gravy.

Preparing the Chilli Crab sauce is nothing short of a work of art because the final dish needs to have a perfect balance of sweet, spicy, sour and that incredible umami seafood flavour.

The chilli paste is made from ingredients like fresh red chillies, shallots and taucu paste while the sauce is made from several aromatics, tomato paste, roasted shrimp paste, vinegar etc….. Sourcing the ingredients and then preparing the sauce is a time-consuming process which many of us do not want to indulge in.

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