This recipe for Simple Spaghetti with Crab & Piquante Peppers makes a quick and delicious meal.
The sweet crab meat, the heat of the Piquante Peppers, garlic, and lemon work beautifully together making the perfect quick and easy dinner that’s ready in just 20 minutes.
In the summertime, I love making quick and easy dishes that don’t keep you in front of the hot stove for too long.
This recipe is perfect for those summer evenings and it’s so good, you can serve it proudly to guests and look like you’ve spent hours in the kitchen when all it took was minutes to prepare!
I recently posted a recipe for Cream Cheese & Ricotta Stuffed Peppadew (Piquante) Peppers. I loved them so much, I decided to come up with some more recipes using these lovely, sweet yet spicy peppers.
I buy the mild peppers because they have a sweet, slight heat, but if you like your food super spicy, they also come in hot.
The peppers and crab are the perfect combination and work really well together. I used fresh crab, but keep canned crab on hand so this is the perfect dish for those nights when you think you have nothing in the house for dinner, but end up having everything you need right in the pantry!
Love Crab? Why not try my Easy Crab Cakes?
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Simple Spaghetti with Crab & Piquante Peppers
Ingredients
- 1 pound spaghetti
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 4-6 Piquante peppers de-seeded and chopped
- 2 garlic cloves finely chopped
- 1 lb crabmeat fresh or canned
- ½ cup white wine
- 2 tablespoons butter
- squeeze of lemon optional
- flat-leaf parsley large handful, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil and add the spaghetti. Give it a good stir and boil for 1 min less than the package says. Drain and reserve about a half a cup of the pasta water.
- While the pasta cooks, gently heat the olive oil with the garlic in a pan large enough to hold all the cooked pasta.
- Cook the garlic very gently until it starts to sizzle, then turn up the heat and add the white wine and peppers.
- Simmer everything until the wine and olive oil come together.
- Add the crabmeat, using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, gently break up the crabmeat.
- Add the spaghetti and butter and toss together gently and allow to cook for one more minute until the pasta is al dente. If it starts to look a bit dry, add some of the reserved pasta water & serve.
- Add a squeeze of lemon & salt and pepper to taste.
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Linda says
I would never have made this if I hadn’t found your wonderful recipe, the pictures made me click onto it and I’m so glad I did.
Erren's Kitchen says
Thank you Linda, this is exactly why I do this
atasteofmadess says
This is so delicious! Love it!
Bryan Aiello says
Awesome pasta!
Erren says
Hi Byran, Thanks! So glad you like it 🙂