Crab Pasta with Basil
For a delicious crab pasta recipe, start by boiling the pasta in salted water. When it's done cooking, drain the water and set it aside. In the same frying pan, heat the butter over a medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, chilli flakes, and tomatoes. Sauté for 2 minutes, and then add the lemon juice and rind. Once the onions and tomatoes are softened, add the crab meat. Cook for a further 2 minutes, and stir through the basil.
Ingredients
- garlic crushed and chopped
- cherry tomatoes cut in halves
- olive oil
- crab meats
- fresh basil leaves
- shiitake mushrooms julienne-d
- basil powder
- black powdered pepper
- paprika powder
- fish sauce
- pasta
Instructions
- Cook the pasta. Drain and set aside for later.
- Pour olive oil in a very hot pan.
- Saute' the garlic. Cook until golden.
- Add the crab meat. Stir well.
- Season the dish with fish sauce.
- Add the mushrooms. Stir well.
- Cover the pan to cook the mushrooms faster.
- Add the cherry tomatoes. Stir well.
- Lower the heat; and cover the pan to soften the tomatoes.
Add a little more olive oil to avoid the dish from drying up. Don't worry to much about putting too much olive oil. It's Omega-3 fatty acids make it one of the healthy oils your body can enjoy.
- After 2-3 minutes, stir the dish once more. Crush the softened tomatoes to release they juices and flavor.
- Add the basil leaves. Stir well until the leaves are drenched in the tomato sauce.
- Season the dish with basil leaves, pepper and paprika powder. Stir well.
- Season with fish sauce to enrich the flavor.
- Add the seasoned pasta into the the sauce. Mix well.
For a cherry tomato-based pasta like this, I like the pasta and the sauce mixed together. In cooking bolognese pasta however, the pasta may be served separately from the sauce.
- Lower the heat and toss the pasta until the sauce is evenly distributed.
- Taste the dish. Add herbs and spices or fish sauce, as per your preference.
- Serve while hot.
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Notes
Notice that we didn't add water into this dish; nor did we use artificial seasoning. The olive oil and the basil leaves are enough to give a delightful flavor to this recipe.
I hope you find this pasta recipe quick and very easy to do!