Mud Crab Pasta

One of my favourite easy entertaining dishes, or simply just as a treat for the family, is this delicious mud crab pasta. Quick to make, incredibly tasty, and perfect for this Good Friday!

 

You’ll need:

1/3 cup olive oil

3 garlic whole garlic cloves, bruised

1 chilli, halved

1 tablespoon fish sauce

1 punnet (250g) cherry tomatoes, halved

400g fresh mud crab, picked

1 bunch parsley, roughly chopped

1 lemon, juice and zest

400g dried spaghetti

 

Cook spaghetti as per packet instructions. Drain and set aside.

Heat olive oil in a small saucepan with garlic and chilli over low heat until the garlic is just golden and the chilli and garlic have infused the oil (approx. 2-3 minutes). Strain the oil into a hot frying pan and add the fish sauce. Add the cherry tomatoes to the pan and gently cook until just softened. Remove from the heat and add the crab, stir gently until the crab is just warmed through by the hot oil.

Add the hot pasta, parsley, lemon juice and zest, and serve!

If you can’t get your hands on fresh mud crab, most good fish mongers will sell the meat frozen, which makes it much easier and convenient to have on-hand. It also means that you can stock the freezer, for an impressively tasty and fast lunch or dinner, any day of the week!

We’d love to see your mud crab pasta creations over the long weekend. Upload to Instagram, and tag @Katering so we can check them out!

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