Warm Pasta & Crab Salad with Chilli & Wild Rocket

This slightly extravagant salad is perfect offered as an entrée in summer before barbecued sirloin steaks and a mixed leaf salad. Thin fusilli or the Benedetto Cavalieri-brand orecchiette or small twirled shapes called strozzapreti [literally meaning ‘priest stranglers’] are great for this salad. Use either cooked mudcrabs or blue swimmers and pick the flesh yourself or buy the cooked and ready-picked meat, which is usually sold frozen since it is so perishable. Garlic, chilli and rocket ar