Crab Curry

Crab curry

Crab curry is a typical Indian seafood dish later incorporated by Portuguese into their cuisine, to make Indo-Portuguese dish variants from Goa, Daman and Diu, a region along the west coast of today's India which was part of the Portuguese State of India. It is also a typical dish from Mozambique, due to the significant Goan population there. It is a curry prepared with crab, which traditionally has been found in abundance off the coast of Goa.

Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans, either the Brachyura or various groups within the closely related Anomura, characterised by having a heavily armoured shell, their tail segments concealed under the body, the ability to run sideways, and the habit of hiding in rocky crevices. They do not form a single natural group or clade, but have convergently evolved multiple times from the ancestral decapod body plan through carcinisation, the process of creating this set of characteristics. As a group, they are thus polyphyletic, meaning they have multiple evolutionary origins.

Curry

Curry is a dish with a spicy sauce, initially in Indian cuisine, then modified by interchange with the Portuguese, followed by the British, and eventually thoroughly internationalised. Many curries are found in the cuisines of countries in Southeast Asia and East Asia.

crab

Noun

1. Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.

Verb

1. To fish for crabs.
2. To ruin.

curry

Noun

1. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
2. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.

Verb

1. To cook or season with curry powder.