Spicy Crab with pasta

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 4
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 490.1
  • Total Fat: 7.8 g
  • Cholesterol: 83.5 mg
  • Sodium: 96.8 mg
  • Total Carbs: 85.5 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 2.5 g
  • Protein: 20.3 g

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Introduction

This is a wonderfully easy and quick way to enjoy pasta with crab. You can substitute shrimp or other fish/seafood if you don't like or have crab This is a wonderfully easy and quick way to enjoy pasta with crab. You can substitute shrimp or other fish/seafood if you don't like or have crab
Number of Servings: 4

Ingredients

    1lb package or pasta like Farfalle or your favorite, use a low cal pasta if you have it
    .5 cup of butter (use less if you like or use olive oil)
    1 can of crab meat or use 8oz of fresh crab meat
    1 15oz can of diced tomato
    1.5 T of red pepper flakes
    1T of chopped garlic
    salt and pepper to taste (be careful with the salt)

Directions

Cook pasta to package directions and drain
melt butter in a pot/pan.
Add red pepper flakes, garlic, salt and pepper
Stir and cook on medium heat for 3 minutes, but don't let the garlic go brown/black
Add the crab meat and just heat it through (don't cook the crab meat more than three minutes

Add the hot, drained pasta and the pot and mix carefully so you don't break up the crab.

Serve hot and add some of the water you boiled the pasta in if you need to 'loosen' it up a bit

You may serve with grated cheese, however in Italy you will never see then use cheese with seafood too often




Serving Size: 8 1-cup servings

Number of Servings: 4

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user CTSOONER.