Unlike actual sea water, dishes that taste of the sea are amazing. There are many ways to infuse your food with the essence of the ocean, such as using stocks or anchovies, but for this sumptuous seafood pasta recipe the key is using the brown crab meat as well as the white.
While white crab meat gives you the expected fresh and delicate flavour, it’s the brown meat where all the seafood flavour is. You must, MUST, include it in this dish. It’s cheaper too.
This seafood pasta recipe has a generous amount of crab. It could probably stretch to twice the amount of servings (while doubling the other ingredients). But this way is the culinary crabilicious treat you deserve…
Crab Linguine with Chilli recipe
Serves 2
- 200g linguine
- olive oil
- Glass dry white wine
- Punnet of sweet cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 1 red chilli, finely chopped
- 1tsp fennel seeds
- 1/2 lemon
- 100g brown crabmeat
- 100g white crabmeat
- Small bunch of flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
1. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium-low heat and fry the shallot, garlic, chilli and fennel seeds for a couple of minutes.
2. Add the tomatoes, let them sizzle a little, the pour in the wine and cook for about 10-15 mins, then stir in the brown crabmeat.
3. While the tomatoes are sizzling, cook the pasta in salted water until al dente.
4. Drain the pasta, reserving a few spoonfuls of the slightly salted cooking water.
5. Stir pasta into sauce along with the white crabmeat, squeezed lemon, and parsley. Add the extra water if the dish seems a little dry.
6. Divide between 2 warmed pasta bowls and serve your crab linguine with chilli immediately.