Recipe: Pasta in Creamy Crab Sauce

Here's another pasta recipe for you pasta lovers out there.  I lifted this from my friends facebook page.  I hope you like it!  I'm sure my son will love this since he is so into pastas with cream sauces....


PASTA IN CREAMY CRAB SAUCE

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup crab meat, cooked
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 medium white onion, finely chopped
1/8 tsp ginger powder
1/8 tsp dried sage
1/8 tsp dried basil
1 tsp chopped fresh, flat parsley
250 gms cooked pasta (spaghetti)
2 cups cream
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup unsalted butter
splash of dry white wine
olive oil
fresh ground black pepper
rock salt

PROCEDURE:

Make a roux by meting the butter in a pan and add the flour and mix well until flour is smooth and combined well with the butter, forming a roux.
Add the cream and continue to a simmer, but do not allow roux to thicken so much.
In another saute pan, heat olive oil and saute garlic and onions.
Add the roux and the crabmeat, sage, basil, pasta and a splash of white wine.
Continue to cook under medium heat and season with salt and pepper.
Top pasta with chopped parsley before serving.


Acknowledgment:  recipe & photo lifted from FB page, "The Heart of Chel"