Modu Recipes

Striker Chef's Dongnamapung Gesal Bokkeumbap

A real crab fried rice that recreates the deep, authentic Southeast Asian flavor using a homemade shrimp paste made from easily available ingredients at home.

🙋 Recommended for

  • ⭐ Those who want to recreate the local flavor of Khao Phat from their Southeast Asian travels at home.
  • ⭐ Those who want to make a high-quality fried rice using real crab meat instead of imitation crab.

Ingredients needed 🛒1 servings

  • 3 blue crabs
  • 1 handful dried shrimp
  • 5 whole garlic cloves
  • some ginger
  • 3 tbsp cooking oil
  • 1 egg
  • 1 bowl instant rice
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1/2 tbsp sugar
  • some MSG
  • some salt
  • cilantro to taste
  • 1/3 cucumber
  • 1/2 lime
  • 1 green onion

Recipe 🍳

  1. Place the blue crabs in boiling water, cover, and steam for about 10 minutes. Let cool slightly, then carefully remove the meat from the body and legs.
  2. In a mortar, add the dried shrimp, a pinch of salt, whole garlic cloves, and ginger. Gradually add cooking oil and pound until coarsely ground with some texture remaining to make a special shrimp paste.
  3. Add the prepared paste to a pan and stir-fry slowly over medium heat to release fragrance. Then add finely chopped cilantro stems and thinly sliced green onion, and stir-fry together.
  4. Make a space on one side of the pan, add the egg, and scramble it. Then add the instant rice and stir-fry over high heat for 2-3 minutes until the rice grains are well-coated and separated.
  5. Season with soy sauce, sugar, and MSG, and stir-fry briefly. Transfer to a plate and garnish with the reserved crab meat, cilantro leaves, sliced cucumber, and lime.
  1. Steam the crabs for 10 minutes and carefully remove the meat.
  2. Pound dried shrimp, garlic, ginger, and oil in a mortar to make a paste.
  3. Stir-fry the paste with cilantro stems and green onion over medium heat until fragrant.
  4. Add egg and instant rice, then stir-fry over high heat until the rice is fluffy.
  5. Season with soy sauce, sugar, and MSG. Serve with crab meat, cilantro, cucumber, and lime.

Cooking tips 💡

  • If you grind the shrimp paste in a blender, too much oil will separate. Using a mortar to coarsely pound the ingredients with some texture is the secret to deep flavor.
  • When stir-frying the rice, use the spatula to cut through the rice grains as if separating them. This helps moisture evaporate and achieves the chewy, dry texture characteristic of Southeast Asian fried rice.

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