20 min · Serves 2
Garlic Butter Crab Pasta
Lump crab folded through a garlic, butter and ghee sauce with cracked peppercorn, lime and cilantro.
Recipe by Hardeep Somal

Ingredients
- 1 pouch Organic Soy Bean & Chickpea Spaghetti
- 50 g salted butter, cubed
- 15 g ghee
- 40 g minced garlic
- 15 g peppercorns, cracked
- 125 g cooked lump crab meat
- 15 g cream
- 15 g coconut cream
- 5 g chopped cilantro
- 5 ml lime juice
- Salt & pepper to taste
Made withSoy Bean & Chickpea Spaghetti
Hardeep Somal is the chef and founder of Klay, a modern Indian kitchen in Shanghai. He developed this dish for Otelia, folding lump crab through a rich garlic butter sauce over our bean pasta.
Read his storyMethod
- 01
Cook the pasta in boiling water for 7 minutes, then drain and reserve a splash of cooking water.
- 02
Melt the butter and ghee over medium-low heat, add the cracked peppercorns and bloom for 30 seconds, then stir in the garlic until fragrant but not browned.
- 03
Fold in the crab meat, cream and coconut cream, loosening with a splash of pasta water.
- 04
Toss the pasta through the sauce until every strand is coated.
- 05
Finish with lime juice, cilantro, and salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.
