Crab Linguine

Ingredients

• 200g white crab meat (fresh meat recommended)
• 50g brown crab meat
• 200g linguine
• 2 big tomatoes, peeled, chopped & deseeded
• 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced
• 1 red chilli, chopped with seeds removed
• Oil, salt to taste, ground pepper

Method

- In case you use fresh crabs, steam or boil the crabs until cooked through, then take out the white and brown crab meat. Double check to make sure there is no shell left in the meat.

- Heat oil a large frying pan, gently saute the garlic and fresh chilli. Add the brown meat and cook for a minute, then add the fresh chopped tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes, add the white crab meat and season with salt.

- In a large pot of boiling salted water, add the linguine and cook for 2 minutes. Remove the pasta with a pair of tongs and add to the frying pan with the crab and tomatoes.

- Add some oil in the pasta, season it well with a good pinch of salt and ground pepper.

- Then give the pasta a good toss and serve hot.

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" To enhance a nice texture for this dish, you can use zucchini. Cut the zucchini into 1cm strips lengthways. Blanch the strips with boiling salted water and add them into the crab and tomato sauce after adding pasta and season well altogether. Making sure you use the same pot of salted boiling water when you cook zucchini and pasta."