Squid Ink Aglio e Olio with Colossal Lump Crab
Squid Ink Aglio e Olio with Colossal Lump Crab. Squid ink spaghetti for spooky season and halloween with a simple but delicious aglio e olio sauce but make it fancy with colossal lump crab and basil leaves. The perfect festive pasta dish for Halloween weekend and the last day of October !! Happy Halloween guys !!
Spooky season is coming to an end after today, so we had to make something festive for halloween and spooky season. This homemade squid ink pasta is the perfect way to get creative and festive for halloween. And of course, there is nothing quite like homemade pasta on Sundays to cure those scaries.
So, with the homemade spooky season pasta, we went with a simple but delicious seafood sauce. Aglio e olio is always a classic, but when you add crab meat to it, it gets even better and a little fancier too. We typically go for a seafood sauce when we make squid ink pasta, and it is always so good.
Anyway, I cannot believe tomorrow is November. I am sad to see the final weekend in October go, but thanksgiving is literally only 3 weeks away !! You guys, I am just SO excited to celebrate my favorite holiday so so soon. And November 1st basically means Christmas season, am I right?!
Tomorrow the halloween decorations will be coming down and later this week the Christmas decorations will be going up !! I am super excited for the holiday season and I have so many exciting ideas for foods, cocktails, and entertaining !! So stay tuned because the holiday season is going to be exciting !!
Ingredients
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup parsley; chopped
2 garlic cloves; minced
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 pound colossal or jumbo lump crab meat
1 pound squid ink pasta (homemade or store-bought)
fresh basil leaves for serving
Directions:
In a large skillet, heat the olive oil. Add the garlic and let it sizzle. Once garlic sizzles remove from heat and the add parsley and crab meat to the skillet. Place the skillet back on the stove and reduce the heat to low. Carefully stir the crab mixture making sure not to break the chunks of crab meat apart.
Cook the pasta. Drain, saving 1 cup of pasta water. Add the pasta to the skillet with the crab. Add pasta water, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes as need.
