Curacha in Alavar Sauce

Curacha is famous in Mindanao, especially in Zamboanga. It’s a spanner crab or red frog crab, a crustacean hybrid native to the waters of Zamboanga and Sulu. It can be cooked with sauce or steamed.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo curacha or crab
• 2cups coconut milk
  
• 1/2 kilo Alavar sauce
• 1 bulb of garlic
• 1/2 thumb of ginger
• 4 pinches of salt
• 4 pinches ajinomoto
• 1 1/2 cup of water

Instructions:

1. Wash curacha or crab. Place in cooking pot. Set aside.
2. Mince garlic and ginger into tiny pieces. Set aside.
3. Sprinkle the salt, MSG, garlic and ginger all over the curacha or crab. Pour coconut milk all over the curacha or crab.
4. Turn stove on high heat until the coconut milk comes to a boil. Then drop the alavar sauce into the pot and lower the knob to medium heat.
5. When the coconut oil starts to surface, turn off the stove.