Recipe
July 24, 2020
Buttery Crab Pasta With Golden Tomatoes & Chervil
“If you can’t find chervil — which is not as popular outside of France as this mildly licoricey herb should be — use basil, mint or cilantro instead,” says The New York Times columnist and Dinner in French cookbook author Melissa Clark.
Directions
Yield: Serves 2 for mains, 4 as an appetizer
Prepare Pasta
- Bring large pot of heavily salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook until al dente (usually a minute or two less than package directs). Reserve 1 cup of pasta water and drain pasta.
Make Sauce
- In large skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Whisk in 1⁄2 cup of pasta water and Parmesan. Then, stir in tomatoes, scallion, red pepper flakes and large pinch of sea salt, and simmer for 1 minute.
Assemble Pasta
- Stir in pasta, 1⁄4 cup of chervil, lemon zest and juice, and black pepper, to taste; toss until warmed through. Gently fold in crabmeat. Remove skillet from heat and serve sprinkled with Parmesan, remaining 1⁄4 cup of chervil, drizzle of olive oil and sea salt, to taste.
Photographer:
Laura Edwards
Source:
Excerpted from Dinner in French by Melissa Clark. ©2020 by Melissa Clark. Photographs ©2020 Laura Edwards. Published in the U.S. by Clarkson Potter Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, New York. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.