Shredded Crab Tagliatelle

Fantastic simple Shredded Crab Tagliatelle is a quick and easy to make pasta dinner. Great recipe idea for canned / tinned shredded crab meat. Cooked in a homemade sauce of garlic parsley butter, lemon and tomatoes. Stirred through cooked tagliatelle, linguine, pappardelle or spaghetti.

📝 Ingredients

• 60 grams Butter
• 2 tbsp Fresh Parsley (chopped ( Use 1 tbsp if using dried))
• 500 grams Tagliatelle Pasta (or spaghetti, linguine, pappardelle)
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 2 Onions (diced)
• 200 gram Cherry or Plum Tomatoes (kept whole)
• 5 Garlic cloves (minced) (or 3 tsp garlic puree)
• 120 ml pasta water (save before draining)
• 120 ml Passata
• 200 grams Shredded Crab Meat (we used 2 tins but fresh crab meat can be used for best results)
• 1 lemon (juice)
• pinch salt and pepper (to taste)
• Parmesean
• Parsley
• Chilli Flakes

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Herb Butter: Place butter and parsley in a bowl and mix together with a fork, set aside until needed.
2. 2Pasta: Cook pasta to packet instruction. Remember to reserve 120ml (½ cup) of pasta water before draining.
3. 3Fry: Meanwhile, fry onions with olive oil on high for 3 minutes, add tomatoes and fry for further 3 minutes.
4. 4Garlic: Add minced garlic.
5. 5Simmer: Add the passata and stir until warmed through, turn the heat down to medium.
6. 6Crab: Add tinned crab and parsley butter you prepared earlier.
7. 7Melt: Stir through until butter melted through
8. 8Lemon: Add the juice of ½ lemon and the reserved pasta water
9. 9Pasta: Add the cooked pasta, stir to coat through and season with salt & pepper.
10. 10Garnish: Serve and sprinkle with your choice of parmesan, chilli flakes and parsley.