Easily prepared but full of flavor is this creamy pasta sauce with imitation crab.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 pound imitation crabmeat, diced
- 1 (16 ounce) package rotini pasta
- 1 cup half-and-half
- ½ cup chopped fresh parsley
- ⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil.
- At the same time, heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic to the hot oil; cook until translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in imitation crab and heat for 2 minutes.
- Begin cooking rotini. Add to the boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes.
- While the pasta is cooking, stir half-and-half and parsley into the crab sauce; bring to a simmer. Continue to simmer crab sauce, adding pasta water as necessary, while pasta is finishing.
- Drain pasta.
- Mix Parmesan cheese into crab sauce and heat until melted, about 2 minutes. Serve over pasta.
- You can use any pasta you’d like.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 358 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 55 g |
| Cholesterol | 26 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 547 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is good way to use imitation crab meat and it’s easy to adjust to your liking. I used non-fat milk with a little flour and simmered until it had thickened. Then added it to the sauted garlic, onion, and crabmeat. I also like spices so I added salt, pepper, and old bay seasoning.
This was so good! Since other reviewers mentioned that it could use a higher sauce to pasta ratio, I added more heavy cream and Parmesan (for thickening the additional liquid), plus some salt for my family’s taste.
Very easy recipe to make and the family loved it
My husband does not like the texture of onions. I used minced onion, bottled garlic, milk and dried parsley. I added cooked bacon with the crab. I thickened with cornstarch using pasta water. .yummy!
Pleasantly surprised. Family said it’s a keeper. Would make again the same way but less pasta.