Creamy Chili Crab Pasta • Two Purple Figs

February 11, 2025

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Creamy Chili Crab Pasta is one more seafood pasta recipe that solely wants a couple of minutes to make, and totally scrumptious! A lot of chili oil, recent cooked crab meat tossed in pasta. So Good! So spicy, creamy, flavorful with crab legs.

two chopsticks holding up crab pasta showing the chili pasta and the crabs

Do you bear in mind our article on How To Cook dinner Crab Legs? It’s a full tutorial on totally different strategies to cook dinner crab completely. We used a skillet to make our Crab Pasta multi function pan. And at the moment we’re utilizing the identical crab, and out phenomenal Chili Oil Recipe to make this creamy chili crab pasta!

So it’s crabs galore over right here, and in case you love crabs you’ll love this recipe too! The Chili Oil is loaded with ginger, garlic, chili flakes, spices all in a wholesome avocado oil. So that you just about don’t want so as to add anything!

You’ll be able to preserve it as is or add a splash of creamy, therefore the creamy chili crab pasta. Both approach it’s SO GOOD!

Why You’ll LOVE this Creamy Chili Crab Pasta

Tremendous Tasty! All of the flavors above of the Chili Oil, plus crab, plus a contact of cream!
If making the crabs from scratch , you’ll want one skillet and 40 minutes whole.
If in case you have prepared cooked crab, and the oil prepared in your pantry, you mainly want quarter-hour!
You may make this recipe for a crowd and it’s such a crowd pleaser!
If in case you have shrimp, be at liberty to make use of that. Or attempt our Candy Chili Salmon too! OMG so good!
You should utilize noodles right here or ramen in case you’re out of pasta or desire a full on Asian expertise.

Substances You’ll Want

Ingredients to make creamy chili crab pasta including crabs, butter,, chili oil, garlic, chives and some cream

Crab. Use retailer purchased crab meat, cooked or uncooked. We’re making ready the recent crab at the moment from scratch so you possibly can know methods to put together it as nicely.
Chili Oil. One among our staples with limitless makes use of! We preserve a jar of this oil in our pantry and it lasts for months!
Butter. That is for cooking the recent crab, in case you’re utilizing retailer purchased you gained’t want it.
Garlic. Equally the garlic flavors the crab meat as we’re cooking it from scratch.
Seasoning and Herbs. Easy salt and pepper seasoning with recent herbs like chives, parsley and a few chillies for a kick.
Cream. You solely want a splash of this for that creamy impact, and you may skip it for a luscious chili crab pasta.

Easy methods to Make Creamy Chili Crab Pasta

Cook dinner the Crab

fresh crab legs cooking in a skillet with butter, salt and pepper

Observe the EXACT identical steps to Crab Pasta for the easiest way to be cooking crab and use it in any sort of pasta. Mainly you’ll cook dinner the crabs with butter in a skillet that’s additionally oven secure.
You then’re going to season the crab, cowl it with foil and take it to the oven after cooking on the range for a 5 minutes.
As soon as prepared, you’re going to take away the crab meat from the shells. And your crab is prepared.
You’ll be able to likewise use store-bought crab meat, however we wished to point out you methods to make it totally from scratch as nicely.

Make Chili Pasta

A hand pouring the spicy chili oil over cooked pasta to make chili crab pasta

Cook dinner your favourite sort of pasta. We used linguine for this dish. You should utilize fettuccine, spaghetti or spaghettini. Bucatini is one other nice various. We discover that noodles are an incredible various right here too and supply an incredible Asian expertise.
As soon as cooked you’re going to pour in a beneficiant quantity of your Chili Oil Recipe. This oil has all of the flavors you want like garlic, ginger, chillies, sesame and extra! Nonetheless you possibly can toss in further of these in to the pasta in case you like as nicely.
Combine the pasta with the oil till nicely coated and flavorful.
Now you possibly can the cream to make it a creamy chili crab pasta, or go away it as it’s.
Serve it with the crab meat on prime–retailer purchased or cooked as proven above.
SO GOOD! Tremendous and satisfying meal!

Ideas for BEST Creamy Chili Crab Pasta

If you need to use recent crab meat as an alternative of retailer purchased, it might be extremely really useful. If you happen to’re rushed on time, you should purchase cooked crab meat and skip the preparation step of the fish.
We all the time have a jar of Chili Oil in our pantry. It retains for months and we use it endlessly! If in case you have that ready as nicely, this recipe solely requires quarter-hour!
We love an extended pasta for this recipe, it will get coated very well with the chili oil and also you style the flavour in each chew.
To make this creamy, add 2 -3 tablespoons of cream per bowl of chili crab pasta. The spicy and creamy distinction is AMAZING!
You should utilize bitter cream in case you’re out of heavy cream, however keep away from utilizing milk or half n half.
This recipe is nice served scorching or chilly. So be at liberty to check it each methods and discover your favourite. We particularly prefer it with out cream when chilly–kind of like a salad!
Leftovers are nice in case you’re going to have them chilly the following day. In any other case reheat the dish in a microwave secure bowl.
We don’t advocate freezing cooked crab, because it modifications texture.

What to do with Chili Oil

Candy Chili Salmon
Asian Cucumber Salad
Chili Lime Shrimp
Seared Ahi Tuna

Crab Recipes

How To Cook dinner Crab Legs
Crab Pasta
Sushi Stacks made with Crab Sushi
Crab Claws

two chopsticks over a bowl of creamy chili crab pasta with a large chunk of cooked crab over the chili tossed pasta