This delicious crab pasta is cooked all in one pot – pasta and all – and is ready in 15 minutes! Perfect for a quick meal anytime of the week and Slimming World Friendly too.
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I can’t tell you how excited I am to share this recipe for this super-easy one-pot crab pasta. It is ridiculously delicious and and so, so quick. I have made it three times last week alone – obviously I was craving carbs on a monumental scale. I blame the changing seasons 😉
Making pasta and sauce in one pot sounds like it shouldn’t work, but you are in for a surprise… it works a TREAT. Fry your chopped onions and garlic, add tinned chopped tomatoes, stock, and your pasta of choice and 15 minutes later you have a deliciously rich tomato sauce that you can customise as you like.
Which Pasta?
Choosing the right pasta for one pot cooking is key. Spaghetti or linguine work well – and crab linguine is, after all, a classic. My favourite choice is bucatini (slightly thicker than spaghetti with a tiny hole in the middle) which absorbs the sauce a little better. But you can also use other types of pasta – small shapes like stellini, orzo and ditalini work really well.
ONE POT PASTA TIPS
Bear in mind that your pasta is cooking in much less liquid than usual, so it will need frequent stirring and maybe a couple of extra minutes than the time specified on the box.
Once it is cooked al dente the sauce will be just the right consistency. You can add a little mascarpone to your tomato pasta for a creamy vegetarian version. I really love adding (tinned) crab meat or shrimp for a seafood version.
You can also make this dish with fresh tomatoes instead of tinned simply by throwing them in with the stock. And if you want an even speedier dish you could use frozen chopped onions, garlic and chillies. I can’t wait to experiment with other ingredients and see what deliciousness I end up with!
SLIMMING WORLD PASTA
Another Slimming World recipe to add to your favourites! Simply use low calorie cooking spray instead of olive oil and replace the sugar with sweetener and this pasta dish is SYN FREE! You can use crab meat as I have done or replace with king prawns.
Super easy one-pot crab pasta - ready in 15 minutes!
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil or low calorie spray
- 1 large onion finely diced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1/2 red chilli deseeded and finely diced
- 400 g | 14oz tin chopped tomatoes
- 500 ml | 2 cups vegetable stock
- 2 tsp sugar or sweetener
- 1 tsp salt
- 200 g | 7oz bucatini pasta
- 200 g | 7oz crab meat I used tinned lump crab meat
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- zest of 1 lemon
- freshly ground black pepper to season
- 1 tbsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- grated cheese such as Pecorino, to serve
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large lided pot. Add the onion, garlic and chilli and fry, stirring, for 4 minutes.
- Add the chopped tomatoes and stock and bring to the boil. Add the sugar and salt.
- Add the pasta and once it softens slightly press it down to that it is submerged in the sauce.
- Cover the pot and simmer for about 10 minutes (usually +2 minutes to whatever the optimum pasta cooking time is), occasionally stirring to make sure nothing sticks.
- Once the pasta is cooked al dente, add lemon juice and crab meat and toss to combine.
- Add the lemon zest, check the seasoning and add pepper and salt, if needed.
- Serve sprinkled with the parsley, with a little grated cheese if you like.
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Julie C says
So easy and delicious. I used the spray oil and spring onions and didn’t need any sugar. I was worried it might be a bit sloppy with all the water but it was the perfect amount and I still have some left for tomorrow. Thanks for the great recipe!
Lucy Parissi says
Thanks Julie so glad you enjoyed it! Such an easy recipe 🙂