Spicy Pappardelle Ai Frutti Di Mare
Ingredients
1 recipe for Marinara Sauce or your favorite store bought
1 cup dry white wine
20 mussels
20 littleneck or Manila clams
1 T unsalted butter
1 T extra-light olive oil or avocado oil
1 large shallot, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup dry white wine
2 ladles of the marinara sauce
1 t red pepper flakes
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
10 large shrimp, peeled and tails removed
10 calamari rings with some tentacles
½ lb pappardelle or fettuccine pasta
2 T chopped fresh basil
2 T chopped fresh Italian parsley
Directions
Scrub clams and mussels under cold running water and place in a bowl in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Remove from refrigerator and add cold water to the bowl to purge the shellfish.
Drain water from the bowl before steaming. If your mussels have beards, do not remove the beards until just before cooking them, or they will begin to slowly die.
In a saucepan over medium heat, add wine, drained mussels, and clams.
Cover and slowly boil for 5 to 6 minutes, until the mussels and clams have opened.
While shellfish are steaming, cook pasta in boiling salted water until al dente, about 8 to 9 minutes. When finished cooking, pour drained pasta back into the pot. Add a little of the sauce and mix to combine.
While pasta is cooking, add butter and oil to a skillet, over medium heat.
Add diced shallot, and sauté for 3 minutes.
Add garlic and sauté another minute.
Add the wine, Marinara Sauce, and red pepper flakes.
Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Drain the broth from the pan with the clams and mussels into a glass pitcher.
Add 1 cup of the juice to the sauce in the skillet.
Add the shrimp and calamari and let simmer 3 to 4 minutes, until shrimp are pink.
Divide pasta between 2 warm pasta bowls.
Pour the seafood and sauce evenly over the pasta.
Garnish with chopped basil and parsley.