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Pappardelle with Prawns and Mussels

Serves

4

Pappardelle with Prawns and Mussels

A tasty and fresh seafood pasta perfect for summer evenings – serve with crusty rustic bread to mop up the delicious sauce and a mixed leaf salad.

Ingredients

  • 400g fresh egg pappardelle
  • 500g shelled prawns
  • 600g mussels
  • 200g tomato passata (pureed, strained tomatoes)
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 desalinated salted anchovy
  • a few leaves of basil
  • parsley, to garnish (optional)
  • ½ Italian chili pepper
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • ½ glass of white wine

Directions

Step 1

In a pan, steam the mussels and shell them once open and set aside, keeping a little mussel water for the sauce.

Step 2

Sauté the whole cloves of garlic, slightly crushed, chili pepper and anchovy in a frying pan in extra virgin olive oil, add the prawns and the shelled mussels.

Step 3

Sauté the seafood and deglaze with the white wine, add the tomato passata, basil and parsley and cook for 5 minutes.

Step 4

In the meantime cook the pappardelle in boiling water and drain after 4 minutes, add them to the sauce, add the mussel water, stir gently to let it combine, turn off the heat and add chopped parsley, if wished.