Quick and Easy Crab Pasta (2024)

This crab pasta in a simple lemon butter sauce with garlic and white wine is one of the quickest and tastiest recipes you can whip up with minimal ingredients and loads of flavour!

If you are a seafood lover, try our Shrimp Scampi Linguine, which is just as quick and delicious.

Crab linguine

If you travel around Italy, you’ll discover seafood pasta a favourite. Although many of us will quickly think of classic Frutti di Mare from Venice, the long coast of Italy means that there are innumerable seafood pasta recipes to draw inspiration from.

One thing that these seafood dishes have in common is that most use long pasta shapes, like the linguine I’ve chosen here. Long pasta strands are also ideal for coating with the oil and flavour from seafood, making for a more enjoyable experience.

For this recipe, I’ve gone with crab. Although you can enjoy crab all year round, the end of summer is the time it’s most abundant! There are so many ways to cook with it but adding crab to pasta dishes has got to be my favourite.

Crab meat is so good for this recipe because you don’t need a lot to add plenty of flavour, which is great news since it can be pricey.

This pasta recipe made with linguine and cooked crab is one of the simplest and speediest dishes you will make. I love having a large arsenal of quick recipes at my disposal in the summer because I don’t want to be stuck in the kitchen for long when it’s so lovely out!

Crab Recipes

Another family favourite made with crab that is equally speedy is a stunning hot crab and roasted corn dip. Perfect for dunking!

However, if you are up for a little challenge, make my luxurious seafood lasagna. The recipe uses a variety of seafood, crab included, a luscious béchamel sauce and fresh lasagna pasta sheets. Pure indulgence!

Now let’s talk about this crab linguine cooked with lemon, garlic, butter, a touch of white wine and Parmesan cheese. The simplest ingredients that produce remarkable taste.

Serving Suggestions

If you are wondering what to serve alongside this dish, here are our suggestions.

Try our Tuscan Panzanella Salad as the punchy dressing and ripe tomatoes bring much needed acidity to balance out the richness of the garlic butter sauce of the crab pasta.

Another one is this Warm Zucchini Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette is loaded with flavour packed vegetables and provides another way to use the abundance of the summer zucchini besides zucchini fritters and zucchini bread or muffins.

And of course, nothing goes better with pasta than warm and fresh garlic bread! I made mine in an air fryer to keep it quick and easy and for an amazingly crunchy crust.

Storage and leftovers

Leftovers can be refrigerated in an airtight container for 3-4 days. The simplest way to warm them back up in a microwave.

I don’t recommend freezing pasta dishes. The process of freezing and thawing does the pasta no favours, and can leave it quite soggy.

Favourite Seafood Pasta Recipes to Try

• Cajun Shrimp Pasta
• Creamy Salmon Pasta with Mixed Greens
• Prawn Pasta in Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce
• Shrimp Penne alla Vodka

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