Clams & Spaghetti
Our pasta dishes that incorporate seafood have been getting so much love on Instagram, so we are excited to share another seafood pasta recipe with everyone! Not only do our followers love seeing our seafood pastas on social media, but we love eating these delicious dishes as well!
Summer is the perfect excuse to make pasta and seafood dishes, so we have been trying different ones just about every weekend. Clams & Spaghetti is another one of our favorite dishes especially my moms! We love making this dish at the beach because every Saturday morning there is a farmers market in our town. It is so much fun to wake up on a sunny and beautiful Saturday and walk around the farmers market. There are so many great things there from the fresh seafood, to the Jersey vegetables, and baked goods.
When we make Clams & Spaghetti my mom and I always go to the farmers market to get our clams! We usually get iced coffees or iced teas while we are there then walk around to see what other fun foods we can buy! We love buying the Jersey tomatoes, and we also love the the fresh tuna steaks that they have every weekend!
We are so excited to share this recipe, and we can’t wait to share more seafood pasta recipes later in the summer!
a. Ingredients:
1/3 cup of olive oil
2 garlic cloves; chopped
¼ cup of chopped flat leaf parsley
¼ tsp of red pepper flakes
½ cup of white wine
¼ cup of unsalted butter
50 little neck clams
1 pound of spaghetti
b. Directions:
Soak the clams in several changes of cold water until the sand has been removed
Place the olive oil, garlic, parsley, and red pepper flakes in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat; when the garlic sizzles add the white wine and the clams then cover
Cook for approximately 5 to 10 minutes until all the clams open; remove the clams from their shells then put them back in the skillet with their sauce leaving a few in their shells for garnish
Cook the pasta according to directions, drain and put the pasta into the skillet with the sauce and the clams; add the butter to the skillet with the pasta and clams then stir until incorporated
Place the reserved clam shells on top and adjust seasonings adding salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes
