There are very few ingredients that resist spaghetti, since they combine with almost everything. If delicately and exquisitely prepared, spaghetti dishes can make you close your eyes and sing with nothing more than their aromas. Therefore, this time we want to delight you and show off with this recipe for spaghetti with prawns and clams.
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Seafood pastas are full of nuances and essences that make them one of the star dishes of the Mediterranean. The best? They are lightweight and much easier to make than it might seem at first glance. we tell you, step by step and with advice, how to make spaghetti with prawns and clams so that you can also treat yourself to a healthy and nutritious treat from home.
Ingredients to make Spaghetti with prawns and clams:
- 250 grams of fresh shrimp
- 300 grams of fresh clams
- 1 sprig of fresh parsley
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 package of spaghetti
- 2 pinches of dried dill
- 1 teaspoon of cornmeal
- 1 liter of water
- 3 tablespoons of sunflower oil
- 2 bay leaves
How to make Spaghetti with prawns and clams:
- In the first place, for this recipe, 100% fresh shrimp will be used and used. That is, the heads and shells will be used in addition to their mole. To do this, peel the shrimp, reserving its interior and its quartering’s.
- Place the clams in a potto steam, cover and cook for 5 minutes. Remove the pot, reserve the broth and clams separately.
- In a saucepan, bring to a boil a glass and a half of water with a pinch of salt. Introduce the shells and shrimp heads that you had reserved. Cook for 10 minutes over medium heat.
- Chop the garlic and a sprig of parsley, reserve. Remove the broth from the shrimp shells and reserve it.
- Wait for the prawn smoke to warm so that the juice comes out well and strain it. Throw away the remains so you can take advantage of the broth to make an exquisite sauce.
- Put to heat water and salt with the bay leaves. When it starts to boil, add the pasta and help you with a spoon so that the spaghetti is completely submerged. Leave them for the time indicated on the package and try them until they are to your liking (al dente, more done).
- Put sunflower oil in a pan and, when it is very hot, add the prawns, garlic and parsley. Stir for a minute. Add a teaspoon of cornmeal, stir and mix.
- Immediately add the smoked prawns and the clam broth. Stir and taste it to give its point of salt. If you don’t need it, keep stirring so that the sauce thickens. Leave it for at least 4 minutes.
- Add the prepared clams. Mix and stir everything together so that the juices melt.
- Strain the paste and drain well. Bathe it with the shrimp and clam sauce. Serve your pasta with prawns and clams and sprinkle it with ground dill.
