How to Cook Crabs with Buko
A tasty seafood dish of blue crabs cooked in coconut water, tomato sauce and coconut meat. Young coconut meat and water are good source of vitamins and minerals.
Servings: 4 to 6 servings
Calories: 120kcal
Ingredients
- 6 pieces medium blue crabs (alimasag)
- 6 cloves garlic crushed
- 10 pcs sitaw stringbeans, cut into 2 inch pieces
- 1 medium onion sliced
- 1 can 227 grams Del Monte Tomato Sauce
- 3 stalks green onions chopped
- 1 cup buko meat cut into strips or shredded
- 1 tsp. iodized salt or 1 tbsp. rock salt
- 1 and 1/2 cups buko water
Instructions
How to cook Crabs with Buko:
- Saute garlic and onion. Add crabs, buko water, 1 teaspoon iodized salt or 1 tablespoon rock salt.
- Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove crabs. Discard upper shell and gills. Cut into half. Flake meat from claws.
- Return to pot. Add sitaw and buko meat. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add Del Monte Tomato Sauce. Simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Add green onions just before serving.