Crab Fra Diavolo Angel Hair Pasta Recipe
Crab Fra Diavolo angel hair pasta is a simple and easy pasta dish that cooks up quick enough for a weeknight meal but luxurious enough for a special meal.
This is a recipe from my husband’s grandmother and is served for the Feast of Seven Fishes and other special occasions. I’ve worked it into our go-to dinner menus because it’s so good and so easy to make.
Blue Crab Fra Diavolo Angel Hair Pasta
Ingredients
- 1/4 C olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic - finely minced
- 1 T crushed red pepper flakes or more to taste
- 1 T dried basil
- 1 t dried oregano
- 6 oz tomato paste - 1 can
- 1/4 C of red wine
- 28 oz pureed San Marzano tomatoes - 1 28-oz can
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 lbs angel hair pasta
- 3/4 lbs crabmeat - picked over for bits of shell and rinsed with lemon juice (Dungeness, blue crab, and jumbo lump crab all work well)
- 1/4 C chopped flat-leaf Italian parsley
- 1/4 C chopped fresh chives
- 1/4 C chopped fresh basil
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a dutch oven over medium heat.
- Add the wine, garlic, red pepper flakes, basil, and oregano and cook until the garlic is a cooked, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in the tomato paste and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes and season with salt and black pepper, to taste.
- Reduce the heat to low and cook the sauce for 20 minutes.
- While the sauce simmers, bring a large pot of water to a boil.
- Add the pasta and cook until al dente according to package directions.
- Once the pasta is on to cook, carefully add the crab and cook until just heated through.
- Remove from heat.
- Drain pasta and place in individual bowls then ladle sauce over pasta.
- Sprinkle the fresh herbs over the pasta
- Season with salt and black pepper.
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OMG, I love this. My grandmother used to cook this when we would go crabbing in Wildwood, NJ.