How to Cook at dinner Linguine with crab chilli and watercress

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How to Cook at dinner Linguine with crab chilli and watercress Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Linguine with crab chilli and watercress. Immediately pour over the crab sauce and toss the pasta about in it, then throw in the parsley and watercress and toss again. Put a large pan of water on to boil for the pasta. In a large pestle and mortar pulverise the peeled garlic cloves with the salt, so that it makes a smooth paste.

With a mortar and pestle, grind garlic and salt into a smooth paste (or mix in a bowl).

Add chile and crush until mixture is tinged red.

Crab Linguine with Chilli and Watercress The best way to cook this recipe is to get everything ready before you start cooking i.e chop the shallot or onion, crush the garlic, zest and juice the lemon and chop the chilli.

You can have Linguine with crab chilli and watercress using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Linguine with crab chilli and watercress

  1. You need of garlic.

  2. You need of sea salt.

  3. You need of large chilli.

  4. Prepare of crab meat.

  5. Prepare of olive oil.

  6. It’s of lemon juice and zest.

  7. You need of linguine.

  8. It’s of watercress torn.

Put a large pan of water on to boil for the pasta.

Linguine with Chili, Crab and Watercress adapted from Forever Summer by Nigella Lawson.

By all means use fresh crab if you can, but canned works just fine.

Cook the linguine as instructed on the packet.

Linguine with crab chilli and watercress step by step

  1. Boil water for pasta.

  2. Garlic cloves mashed into a paste.

  3. Add deseeded chilli and mix well.

  4. Add crab meat mix with a fork gently.

  5. Add In oil to mixture.

  6. Add zest and juice of lemon to mixture.

  7. Cook pasta as per instructions,once done drain well.

  8. Pour in crab mixture over pasta gently mix in.

  9. Tear up watercress and toss into crab and linguine.

  10. Serve in warmed bowls.

Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan and lightly toast the breadcrumbs with a couple of pinches of chilli flakes until golden and crisp.

When the pasta is cooked, drain well and toss with the oil, the zest and juice of the lemon, the salmon, and the watercress.

Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian In a dish as simple as this, every ingredient must be chosen with care, particularly pungent members of the onion family.

Cook pasta according to packet instructions, keep aside.

In a large pan add olive oil, heat over medium heat.