Cooking Daddy: Homemade CNY goodies - Air-fried Black Pepper Crabsticks

It's that time of the year again. This year instead of going out and buying a bunch of snacks that we almost always take forever to comsume, we decided to see if we could replace them with some homemade Chinese New Year snacks.

The first recipe that we decided to try our hand at is air-fried crabsticks as a replacement for keropok. We used the AirFryer that we mentioned in our previous post about the air-fried teriyaki salmon.

Ingredients:

1. A packet of frozen crabsticks
2. A dash or two of oil
3. Some freshly ground black pepper

 Instructions:

1.  First unroll the crabsticks then shred them into elongated pieces
2. Add the oil and massage it into the crabsticks
3. Grind in some black pepper and make sure it's evenly spread out
4. Put the shredded crabsticks into the air-fryer netting
5. Set the temperature to 180°C and timer to 15 minutes.
6. Sneak a peek every 5 minutes, use a tong to mix them around so they cook evenly.

At the end of the time, we ended up with a batch of crispy, yummy crabsticks, so yummy in fact that the first batch that was meant to be shared with the family was quickly wolfed down. The pictures below are from the second batch we just made and if there's one criticism, it's that we should've added more black pepper.

You can find this in any supermarket in Singapore

Shred them into pieces like this

Tada! The end product!

 Now if we can only keep from finishing this batch before CNY actually begins! The total cost? The price of a packet of crabsticks and the electricity to run your AirFryer for 15 minutes. Consider that most CNY snacks go for about $10 a container and that's a pretty good deal.