Pasta with Crab, Tomato, and Chilies

Name: Pasta with Crab, Tomato, and Chilies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 794 grams whole peeled tomatoes, drained and roughly broken up by hand; 2 Tbsps minced fresh chives; 2 Tbsps minced fresh parsley leaves; 1 Tbsp medium cloves garlic, minced (about; 79 milliliters heavy cream; 4 servings Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; 454 grams lump or jumbo lump fresh crab meat; 3 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil, divided; 1 small red hot chili, finely sliced; 1 teaspon red pepper flakes; 2 slices rustic bread or 1 English muffin, roughly torn; 454 grams fresh spaghetti, fettucini, or tagliatelle (dry pasta can also be used); 2 Tbsps unsalted butter; 59 milliliters vodka

Pasta with Crab, Tomato, and Chilies might be just the main course you are searching for. This pescatarian recipe serves 4. One serving contains 890 calories, 41g of protein, and 30g of fat. A mixture of heavy cream, chives, teaspon pepper flakes, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the heavy cream you could follow this main course with the Homemade Blizzards with Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat butter and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat until melted and foaming subsides.

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Butter

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Sauce Pan

Add garlic and red pepper flakes and cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant but not browned, about 1 minute.

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Red Pepper Flakes

Garlic

Add tomatoes and heavy cream. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly reduced, about 10 minutes.

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Heavy Cream

Tomato

Add vodka and simmer for 4 minutes longer.

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Vodka

Transfer mixture to jar of blender and blend on high speed until completely smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper and transfer 2 cups to a large saucepan. Reserve remaining sauce for another use.

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Salt And Pepper

Sauce

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Blender

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.

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Water

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Pot

Combine bread and remaining olive oil the the work bowl of a food processor. Process until fine crumbs are formed.

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Olive Oil

Bread

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Bowl

Transfer to a medium skillet and cook over medium-high heat, stirring and tossing constantly until golden brown.

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Transfer to a small bowl. Season bread crumbs to taste with salt and pepper and add a pinch of parsley and chives. Toss to combine. Set aside.

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Salt And Pepper

Breadcrumbs

Parsley

Chives

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Bowl

Add crab and sliced chilies to saucepan with sauce and stir to combine. Cook spaghetti in boiling salted water just until it is barely cooked through, about 2 minutes (if using dry pasta, cook according to package directions).

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Spaghetti

Chili Pepper

Pasta

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Water

Crab

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Drain pasta, reserving 1 cup of cooking liquid.

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Pasta

Transfer pasta to saucepan with sauce stir in remaining herbs.

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Herbs

Pasta

Sauce

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Heat over high heat until sauce is simmering and pasta is completely coated, adding reserved pasta water as necessary to thin sauce to desired consistency.

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Serve immediately, topping with bread crumbs.

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