Creamy Pasta with Imitation Crab

Description

Creamy pasta sauce with imitation crab that is ready with little prep but ends up with lots of flavor.

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

  1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil.
  2. At the same time
  3. heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic to the hot oil; cook until translucent
  4. about 5 minutes. Stir in imitation crab and heat for 2 minutes.
  5. Begin cooking rotini. Add to the boiling water
  6. stirring occasionally
  7. until tender yet firm to the bite
  8. about 8 minutes.
  9. While the pasta is cooking
  10. stir half-and-half and parsley into the crab sauce; bring to a simmer. Continue to simmer crab sauce
  11. adding pasta water as necessary
  12. while pasta is finishing.
  13. Drain pasta.
  14. Mix Parmesan cheese into crab sauce and heat until melted
  15. about 2 minutes. Serve over pasta.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 35 mins

Servings: 8

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