Steps to Make Any-night-of-the-week Lemon spaghetti with shrimp and crabmeat

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon spaghetti with shrimp and crabmeat using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon spaghetti with shrimp and crabmeat:

1. Take Shrimp and crabmeat:
2. Get olive oil
3. Make ready large shrimp
4. Make ready imitation crabmeat
5. Make ready kosher salt
6. Get ground black pepper
7. Prepare Pasta:
8. Make ready # thin spaghetti
9. Take olive oil
10. Prepare Parmesan, grated, extra for topping
11. Make ready lemon zest
12. Get lemon juice (2 large lemons if squeezed)
13. Take kosher salt
14. Make ready ground black pepper
15. Take fresh basil, chopped
16. Get capers, fried briefly in olive oil

Instructions to make Lemon spaghetti with shrimp and crabmeat:

1. For the shrimp: In a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat. Sprinkle the shrimp and crabmeat with the S&P, then add to the pan in a single layer and cook for 3 minutes on each side. Set aside.
2. For the pasta: Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling water until tender, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking, for 8 minutes. Drain and reserve the pasta water.
3. While the pasta is cooking, whisk together the olive oil, Parmesan, lemon zest and juice in a large bowl. Toss the drained pasta with the lemon sauce, the shrimp and crabmeat and some of the reserved pasta water; add 1/4C at a time as needed to moisten. (I didn't need even a 1/4C) Add the S&P and basil and toss. Garnish with fried capers and more Parmesan cheese.
4. How to fry capers: Drain, rinse and dry capers well. Heat 1/4" vegetable oil in a small skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add capers and fry for 2 minutes. They should pop open and get brown and crispy. Using a slotted spoon, remove them to a paper towel lined plate to drain. Crunch up to garnish.

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