Linguine alla Granchio
A simple Italian pasta dish with crab, cherry tomatoes, garlic and chilli. Linguine with crab is quick to make and perfect when you want to serve something extra good for dinner.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- g Crab meat (2 crab shells)
- Cherry tomatoes
- Thyme sprigs (leaves only)
- Garlic cloves
- Red chilli
- Green chilli
- Thinly sliced chilli, to garnish
- ml Extra virgin olive oil
- ml Fish stock (optional)
- g Dried linguine
- Lime
- Parsley, to garnish
Instructions
Method
Halve the cherry tomatoes. Thinly slice the garlic and chilli.
Cook the linguine about 2 minutes less than stated on the packet.
Put the olive oil in a pan or large frying pan. Add the garlic and thyme and let them sizzle gently over a low heat. The garlic should not brown.
When the pasta has about 2 minutes of cooking time left, transfer it to the pan along with the chilli and cherry tomatoes.
Add a ladleful of pasta water or fish stock. Mix well while the pasta finishes cooking in the sauce. Add more liquid as needed.
Fold in about 200 g of the crab meat.
Divide the pasta between plates and top with the rest of the crab meat.
Garnish with finely sliced chilli and parsley. Squeeze over a little lime juice before serving.
Ingredients
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