Soft shell crab with papaya salad

Soft shell crab and papaya salad is a Summer meal in our house. It has fresh tasty flavours and leaves you feeling light! You can also do this with fish, tofu, calamari, or even have the salad on it’s own.. it’s devine!

Ingredients (serves 2)

60 mls Fish Sauce
60 mls Soy Sauce
60 mls White Vinegar
1/2 cup Sugar
60 mls Water
1 long red Diced up chilli (seeds removed)
1 Green Papaya (shredded)
1 Carrot (Shredded)
1/4 cup Vietnamese mint (Thinly sliced)
2 tbsp Shallots (for topping)
Crushed peanuts optional
4 Soft Shell crabs (thawed, washed and dried on paper towel)
3/4 cup Flour for dusting crab in
1 tsp Salt and pepper (into flour mixutre)
1 tbsp Paprika (into flour mixture)
Oil For deep frying soft shell crab
2 Eggs (beaten for egg wash)

Method

Dressing: combine the fish sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, water and sugar in a bowl, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Taste it to make sure you get an even balance of sour, sweet, spicy etc.
Combine the papaya, carrot, mint, crushed peanuts and fried shallots in a separate bowl. Set aside until ready to serve.
Drain any excess water from the soft shell crab on paper towels. Once dry, place crabs in egg wash and then coat in flour mixture. (Light dusting). Deep fry soft shell crabs until golden brown. (Test by cutting through centre to see if it is cooked to your delight) but don't over cook otherwise crab will be very dry. Let the crab drain on a paper towel whilst you assemble your papaya salad
Pour the Dressing into the papaya salad mix and stir through well using your fingers. Place the salad on a plate for serving and then top off with soft shell crabs. Pour remainder of the dressing over the top of the crabs/salad and ENJOY!

82 Comments

- - mom94125 said
  - 27 Oct 2014
    9:51 pm
also i loved and shared this
- zoie1975 replied
  
  29 Oct 2014 , 9:08 am
  Thank you! 🙂
- - mom57748 said
  - 25 Oct 2014
    7:26 pm
I love the idea of papaya salad with the crabs.

- - mom57506 said
  - 25 Oct 2014
    11:16 am
looks very nice

- - mrsgreen12 said
  - 24 Oct 2014
    9:05 pm
This looks so good but im not a fan of seafood much
Is it very fishy flavour?
- zoie1975 replied
  
  25 Oct 2014 , 10:54 pm
  No actually.. it’s really nice.
- - Mandi2406 said
  - 24 Oct 2014
    2:02 am
Omg that looks and sounds amazing!

- - maureen3 said
  - 23 Oct 2014
    7:50 pm
A delicious and yummy treat

- - gem1991 said
  - 21 Oct 2014
    5:54 pm
looks absolutely delicious, might have to try 🙂

- - jabelle said
  - 21 Oct 2014
    10:51 am
Top recipe of the week I think! Sounds delicious!

- - Lov'n'Life said
  - 20 Oct 2014
    10:31 am
yumthank you this looks and sounds delicious

- - mom105239 said
  - 17 Oct 2014
    2:32 pm
We had exactly like this in a Thai restaurant, it was delish. Now we can make one at home. Thanks!

- - crystalangela said
  - 16 Oct 2014
    9:00 pm
Sounds good!
I have never eaten green papaya or crab before.

- - smart_ass said
  - 16 Oct 2014
    5:39 pm
this sounds fantastic!

- - Threelos said
  - 16 Oct 2014
    10:01 am
This looks really amazing. I am bookmarking the recipe, but in all honesty I don’t think I’ll ever get around to collecting hte ingredients and giving it a go! Maybe when the kids are a bit older and I have time to be more creative in the kitchen!

- - rachkap said
  - 16 Oct 2014
    2:41 am
Never had this before but it looks great!

- - cherz said
  - 15 Oct 2014
    3:31 pm
This sounds very exotic. thanks for sharing..also your pic is awesome. 🙂

- - vikki18 said
  - 15 Oct 2014
    2:02 pm
awesome receipt!

- - meedee said
  - 15 Oct 2014
    12:52 pm
Oh this sounds amazing. I love crab but I dont like it all mushed up and in a sauce so this would be wonderful.

- - rachkap said
  - 13 Oct 2014
    1:23 am
Hubby would love this – thanks

- - mom63082 said
  - 08 Oct 2014
    11:41 am
This looks amazing and the salad looks great

- - memo said
  - 07 Oct 2014
    11:49 pm
what a lovely recipe idea