Recipies for New Years

• Posted by Mike Sanders December 31, 2011 - Filed in Family & Home - 95 views

  Crab Penne Alfredo

  

  
  

  INGREDIENTS:
  1 quart heavy whipping cream
  2 cubes real butter
  4 Tbl Olive Oil
  1 tsp salt
  2 cloves of freshly minced garlic
  3 blocks of parmesan cheese (Triangles) - freshly grated
  1/4 cup flour

  2 cups of water

  16 oz penne pasta

  12 oz fresh flaked crab meat

   

  NOTES:

  
  Fresh Snow Crab works best, but if you are on a tight budget, feel free to substitute with imitation crab if on a tight budget. Boil the crab with butter if using fresh, DO NOT add raw crab meat to the sauce.

   

  Sauce - You can obviously substitute the sauce for store bought alfredo sauce if you would like. If that is the case, simply bring the sauce to a soft boil and add 1/4-1/2 cup of whole milk to the sauce with the cooked crab meat.

  
  DIRECTIONS:

  Sauce
  Remember EVERYTHING must be done on medium heat or it will scorch!
  Melt 2 cubes butter with olive oil and salt in a large pot
  Once melted dump in as much garlic as you like to taste (usually about 1/2-3/4 of the small jar)
  Blanche the garlic in the melted butter mixture
  Pour in the 1 quart heavy whipping cream and heat to just short of boiling
  Grate the parmesan cheese (if you haven't already) and dump in the pot
  Stir with a wisk until completely melted
  Add the water/flour mixture and stir until it is as thick as you want
  *when you take it off the heat it will set some more
  **you can make it as thick or as thin as you want by how much flour/water mixture you add

  Add the cooked crab meat to the sauce 5 minutes prior to plating the Penne

  Give it a good stir

   

  Penne

  

  (Note this picture was penne pasta al dente I had cooked previously, lime juice is not needed for this dish)
  

  
  

  Bring 4 qts of water to a rolling boil

  Add 1 tbs of kosher salt (To encourage boiling)

  Add Pasta

  Stir every 2 minutes or so to avoid sticking and to ensure an even cook to the pasta

  *We want the pasta to be Al Dente.. Firm, yet soft and not musy. We want it to have a very soild texture. This will vary each time, I reccomend checking the pasta every time you stir it to get it to the desired consistancy. This usually takes around 10-11 minutes.

  Strain pasta

   

  Plating

  To be completely honest with you, I was a little drunk when I plated this dish.

  You want to serve it in either a Large Plate or a Bowl

  Plate the Penne

  Give sauce a good stir

  Add fair ammount of sauce to the Pasta

  Grate parmasan cheese over top

  Grind a little black pepper (if desired) over top

  Add a little parsley for a classy look

   

  BOOM! You're done.

   

  I reccomend Gordon Ramsay's Prawn Cocktail as an apitizer for this dish

  I reccomend a Cape Cod as a drink for this dish

  I reccomend my own Lemon Lime Fusion Pie as a dessert for this dish