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    Home » Recipes » Main Dish

    Ago Glain Crab Dish with Peanut sauce

    September 4, 2014 By Darlene at International Cuisine

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    Ago glain is a crab dish has a great blend of flavors with tomato, onion peanut butter and some heat from the piri-piri peppers. Serve with some hot basmati rice for a great meal from Benin. I could not find good fresh crabs to use in this dish so I used lump crab. I am sure fresh would be awesome and make for a great presentation.

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    Ago Glain Crab Dish with Peanut sauce

    Course Main Dish
    Cuisine Benin
    Servings 4
    Author International Cuisine

    Ingredients

    • 6 large fresh crabs about 1 ½ lbs.
    • 1 cup vinegar
    • 2 cups peanut butter
    • 3 large tomatoes
    • 1 bay leaf
    • 1 sprig of parsley chopped
    • 1 large onion
    • 2 large onions chopped
    • 3 whole cloves
    • Juice of 3 limes
    • 1 tablespoon palm oil
    • 1 tablespoon piri-piri chilies minced
    • Salt and pepper to taste

    Instructions

    • Wash the crabs and place in a large pot full of boiling water, add in the vinegar.
    • Season with salt and pepper, cook for 10 minutes, skim off any foam that forms at the top of the pot.
    • Add in the whole tomatoes, bay leaf, parsley and the whole onion with the cloves stuck into it.
    • Continue cooking for 5 minutes then remove the tomatoes and continue cooking the other ingredients for another 5 minutes.
    • Remove the crabs, remove their shells and take out the crab meat from the body and the claws.
    • Mix the crab meat with the lime juice and set aside.
    • Heat the palm oil in a pan and add the finely chopped onion and fry until translucent.
    • Add the tomatoes and peanut butter and cook until they form a paste before adding the chilies.
    • Now add in the crab meat and stir to heat through.
    • Stuff the crab meat into the cleaned shells and serve with rice.
    • Garnish with some parsley.

     

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