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Tagliolini with Mussels and Tomato Sauce

Serves

4

Tagliolini with Mussels and Tomato Sauce

A delicious and simple seafood pasta dish for a get-together with friends or a family meal; serve with Italian bread to mop up every drop of the sauce!

Ingredients

  • 400g fresh tagliolini pasta
  • 2kg mussels in their shells
  • 400g tomato passata (pureed, strained tomatoes)
  • 2 desalinated salted anchovies
  • pepper, to taste
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • ½ Italian chili pepper
  • ½ glass of white wine
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • salt

Directions

Step 1

Steam the mussels in a saucepan with pepper and the white wine. As soon as they open, shell them and keep the cooking water.

Step 2

Put the garlic, extra virgin olive oil, chili pepper, anchovies, shelled mussels, tomato passata and a little mussel water in a large saucepan and cook for 12 minutes.

Step 3

Cook the tagliolini in plenty of boiling salted water for 4 minutes and drain well, add to the sauce and mix well.