Garlic Butter Crab Pasta

This Garlic Butter Crab Pasta made quick and easy with sauteed garlic in butter tossed with flaked canned crab and mixed with angel hair pasta is perfect for dinner.

I have a bad habit of going to the grocery store and picking up random cans of things that I think I might want to use someday. Some of them I have used over and over again and know what to do with them, but I had no idea what to make with canned crab. I usually use fresh crab meat in recipes, and I wasn’t sure it would be the same.

A few weeks ago I saw a crab and angel hair pasta recipe on Pinterest and was reminded of it the next time my daughter asked for pasta for dinner, so I decided to try a canned crab pasta recipe.

Use canned crab labeled “white crab meat” in this Garlic Butter Crab Pasta. The ones labeled “pink crab meat” are crab claw meat, and have a lot of tiny shell pieces that are impossible to pick out. The butter absorbs into the pasta pretty quickly, if you want more of a buttery crab pasta melt additional butter to mix into the pasta when serving.

You can follow the crab meat pasta sauce recipe and use whatever kind of pasta you like.

Garlic Butter Crab Pasta 

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Easy Italian Sausage Lasagna

Skillet Meaty Shells and Cheese 

Pumpkin Ravioli with Parmesan Sage Cream Sauce

American Pierogi Casserole 

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Garlic Butter Crab Pasta

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

3 mins

Total Time

13 mins

 

This Garlic Butter Crab Pasta made quick and easy with sauteed garlic in butter tossed with flaked canned crab and mixed with angel hair pasta is perfect for dinner.

Course: MAIN COURSES/ENTRÉES

Cuisine: Italian American

Keyword: crab and angel hair pasta recipe, easy crab pasta

Servings: 8

Calories: 365 kcal

Author: Bernadette

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 large cloves garlic, minced
• 18 ounces canned white crab meat (reserve liquid from the cans to add to the pasta)
• 1 teaspoon chopped parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• pinch red pepper flakes
• 1 pound angel hair pasta, cooked in salted boiling water for the time indicated on the box

Instructions

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat, add salt to keep the pasta from sticking.  Cook the pasta for the time indicated on the package, then drain and return to the pot. 

2. As soon as the pasta goes into the pot, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium high heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring often, for two minutes or until the garlic is soften, being careful not to let it burn. Add the reserved juices from the cans and turn off the heat. Stir in the crab meat, parsley,,salt, and red pepper flakes. 

3. Stir the garlic butter crab mixture into the pasta and serve immediately with grated Parmesan cheese, if desired. 

Nutrition Facts

Garlic Butter Crab Pasta

Amount Per Serving

Calories 365 Calories from Fat 108

% Daily Value*

Fat 12g18%

Saturated Fat 7g44%

Cholesterol 92mg31%

Sodium 502mg22%

Potassium 291mg8%

Carbohydrates 42g14%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 1g1%

Protein 18g36%

Vitamin A 355IU7%

Vitamin C 2.2mg3%

Calcium 73mg7%

Iron 1.1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.