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Ginataang Alimasag Recipe

This is a recipe for ginataang alimasag. These are blue crabs with spinach cooked in coconut milk. 

Difficulty Medium
Time 40 min
Servings 4
Ingredients 11
Steps 7
Ginataang Alimasag Recipe
Filipino Updated 7/14/2009

Ingredients

Measured from the catalog payload.

  • 3 lbs blue crab
  • 2 tbsp shrimp paste
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 tsp garlic minced
  • 1 piece onion minced
  • 1 ginger cut into thin strips
  • 3 tbsp cooking oil
  • 4 cups coconut milk
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 spinach
  • 6 pieces thai chili

Instructions

7 cooking steps

  1. In a large pot, sauté the garlic, onion, and ginger
  2. Add the ground black pepper and coconut milk then bring to a boil
  3. Put-in the shrimp paste and fish sauce and cook until the coconut milk’s texture is thick and natural oil comes out of it (approximately 20 ++ minutes)
  4. Add the Thai chili and simmer for 5 minutes
  5. Put the crabs in the pot and mix until evenly covered with coconut milk. Simmer for 5 to 20 minutes. (Note: If crabs were steamed prior to cooking, 5 to 8 minutes is enough)
  6. Add the spinach and simmer for 5 minutes
  7. Serve hot. Share and Enjoy!

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Main Course, Crab alimango, alimasag, ginataan Public recipe Revision 1