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10 elegant crab pasta recipes

These recipes combine the sea-salty sweetness of crab with al dente pasta.
Spaghetti and spanner crab meat

Spaghetti and spanner crab meat

Ben Dearnley

Crab and pasta are a match made in culinary heaven. There’s the sea-salty sweetness of picked crab meat dotted through just-cooked pasta, with some binding agents to pull it together – a garlicky tomato sauce does wonders, as does a bianco-style sauce with lemon, chopped parsley and a touch of starchy pasta water. To make crab pasta like the Ligurians do, we turn to the dearly-missed restaurant Lucio’s most popular dish, the tagliolini alla granseola.

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Benito Martin

Marameo’s squid-ink spaghetti with crab, chilli and tomato

Busiate with crab, ginger and pangrattato
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Busiate with crab, ginger and pangrattato

Photo: William Meppem

Lucio Galletto’s tagliolini alla granseola

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Photo: William Meppem

Spaghettini with Hawkesbury mud crab, garlic, chilli, lemon and parsley

Photo: Con Poulos

Spaghetti with crab and tomato

Photo: William Meppem

Bigoli with crab, tomatoes and anchovy

Dean Wilmot

Crab, mint and lemon spelt pasta

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Spaghettini with crab, chilli and rocket
John Paul Urizar

Spaghettini with crab, chilli and rocket

Brett Stevens

Zucchini flower, dill and crab linguine

Spaghetti and spanner crab meat
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Spaghetti and spanner crab meat

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