crab spaghetti

Creamy crab and pea pasta

Name: Creamy crab and pea pasta
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 400g spaghetti; 200g frozen peas; 2 x 170g tins white crabmeat; 5 tbsp half-fat crème fraiche; 1 red chilli chopped; handful parsley chopped; 1 lemon zest and juice

Published: March 25, 2015 at 4:07 PM

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Serves 4

A little effort

Total time: 30 mins

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Ingredients

400g spaghetti
200g frozen peas
2 x 170g tins white crabmeat
5 tbsp half-fat crème fraiche
1 red chilli

chopped
handful parsley

chopped
1 lemon

zest and juice

Method

step 1

Boil a large pan of salted water. tip in spaghetti, then cook for 7 minutes. add frozen peas, then cook for 3 minutes more until both are cooked through.
step 2

Drain in a colander, reserving a little cooking water, then tip back into the pan with white crabmeat from 2 × 170g tins and 5 tbsp half-fat crème fraîche. Stir well with 1 chopped red chilli, a handful of chopped parsley and the zest and juice of 1 lemon. Add a little of the cooking water if too dry.

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