Crab Fra Diavolo Recipes

Steps:

• Place a large pot of water on to boil for pasta.
• Place crab in bowl and pick through with fingertips for cartilage and shells. Top with juice of 1 lemon.
• Peel and finely chop shallots and chop or grate garlic.
• Heat a large skillet over medium heat with EVOO. Melt butter into oil, then add shallots and bay leaf. Stir a minute, then add garlic and season with salt and fennel pollen. Stir 2 minutes, then add chili paste and stir another minute. Add sherry and reduce by half. Add cherry tomatoes and passata, stir and reduce heat to low.
• Salt water liberally for pasta and drop pasta; have a cup near stove to reserve starchy water and place strainer or colander in sink. Cook pasta 4 to 5 minutes, a minute less than package directions.
• Pile together the chives, parsley and dill and chop.
• Add basil to sauce. Add crab to sauce to heat through. Remove bay leaf from sauce.
• Reserve 3/4 cup pasta water. Drain pasta, add to sauce with half of the herbs, toss gently to combine and adjust seasonings. Add water as necessary to loosen the sauce. Drizzle with EVOO and top pasta with reserved herbs.

Steps:

• Combine shrimp, olive oil, red pepper flakes, salt, and Aleppo pepper flakes in a bowl; toss to coat shrimp completely in oil and spices.
• Heat a large skillet over high heat until very hot. Cook shrimp in a single layer until browned on one side, about 2 minutes. Turn shrimp and cook until browned on the other side, about 1 minute more. Transfer shrimp to a bowl.
• Heat the same skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion with a pinch of salt in hot skillet until onions are slightly golden and just becoming translucent; 2 to 4 minutes. Add garlic and oregano to onion; cook and stir until fragrant, 15 to 30 seconds.
• Pour white wine into onions and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off of the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon; add crushed tomatoes and lower heat to medium-low. Cook and stir until tomato mixture thickens and flavors blend, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Return shrimp to skillet along with any accumulated juices in the bowl. Cook until shrimp are reheated, 2 to 4 minutes. Stir parsley and basil into sauce and season with salt, red pepper flakes, and Aleppo pepper flakes.

Steps:

• Scrub the mussels under running cold water making sure they are closed tight and remove the beards.
• In a large pot over high heat bring to a boil about 1" of water.
• Reduce the heat to low and add the mussels-cover and cook until the shells open about 5 minutes.
• Discard any that do not open.
• Discard the top shell from each mussel; rinse the mussel in the broth left in the pot to remove any left over s and.
• Let broth stand awhile to let the sand settle in the bottom of the pot. Pour 3/4 cup of the broth into a measuring cup and discard any remaining broth being careful not to pour any sand into the cup.
• In a large skillet over med.
• heat, heat the oil and Saute onions, green pepper and garlic until tender but not brown.
• Prepare the pasta as directed on the package. Cut the fish into 1" chunks.
• Into the onion mixture, add toma toes with the liquid from the can, all remaining ingredients, except mussels- the fish and mussel broth.
• (If you are adding more seafood add it now). Turn the heat to high and bring to a boil-when this comes to a boil, reduce heat to low-cover and simmer 5-7 minutes or until fish is cooked through.
• Add the mussels on the half shell and heated through.
• To serve, put the pasta onto plates or a large platter, spoon the fish/mussel mixture over and top with fresh grated Parmesan cheese.

Steps:

• In a large high sided skillet over medium high heat, add tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, wine, garlic, Italian seasoning and crushed red pepper.
• heat until just starting to bubble, add mussels and clams, cook until they start to open.
• Lower temperature to medium and add shrimp and squid, cook 4-5 minutes until shrimp and squid cook,be careful not to over cook shrimp and squid to avoid them becoming chewy and not tender.
• serve over pasta and garnish with cheese or parsley and enjoy.