Pasta With Crab

7 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • Salt to taste
  • 13 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons slivered or minced garlic
  • 2 dried red chilies, or to taste
  • 1 pound pasta
  • 1/2 pound crab meat, or more
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley leaves

Directions

  1. 1
    Bring a large pot of water to a boil, and salt it.
  2. 2
    Put oil, garlic, chilies and a pinch of salt in a saucepan large enough to hold cooked pasta and turn heat to medium-low.
  3. 3
    Cook, shaking pan, until garlic just begins to color; turn off heat.
  4. 4
    When water boils, cook pasta.
  5. 5
    When it is just about done, turn heat under oil back to low and add crab; stir once or twice.
  6. 6
    Drain pasta (reserve a bit of cooking water), and toss it in crab sauce to coat.
  7. 7
    If mixture seems a bit dry, add reserved cooking water or more olive oil.
  8. 8
    Stir in parsley, adjust seasoning, and serve.

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