Pasta with Garlic Clams
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
40 min.
Preparation
Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 8 cups clam (washed)
- 2 shallots (diced)
- 1 clove garlic cloves (roughly chopped)
- 2 Tomatoes (skin scored underneath)
- 1 sprig thyme
- 3 Tbsps olive oil
- 1 Tbsp butter
- ⅜ cup dry white wine
- ⅜ cup Fish broth (or stock)
- 1 bunch flat-leaf parsley (chopped)
- 14 ozs Spaghetti
Preparation steps
1.
Drop the tomatoes into boiling water for a few seconds, refresh in cold water, then skin, quarter, deseed and dice.
2.
Heat the oil and briefly saute the shallots, garlic and thyme. Deglaze with white wine and add the drained clams.
3.
Cover and cook for about 5 minutes, until the clams have opened. Drain the clams but retain the cooking liquid.
4.
Remove the clams from their shells apart from a few to garnish. Discard any clams that have not opened.
5.
Meanwhile cook the spaghetti in plenty of boiling, salted water until al dente, then drain well.
6.
Heat the butter and saute the diced tomatoes, then add the clam cooking liquid and the fish broth.
7.
Bring to a boil, add the parsley and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the spaghetti, season to taste and finally add the shelled and unshelled clams and reheat briefly in the hot broth. Serve at once.
