Pasta as a protagonist...

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Pasta with crabs - italian recipe

Today I'll show you how to cook one of my favourite recipes - pasta with crab. It can be crab or lobster or similar one)

To start, you need crabs, we had one and a half crabs, not very big, just enough for two persons.

Then you need garlic, chopped parsley, 150 grams of white wine, olive oil

spaghetti (about 100g per person) - you can take a different pasta, such as penne or rigatoni. Then you need a "Passata di Pomodoro" - about 500-600 gr.

Then you need big deep pan, because we won't cook pasta separately but put it directly to sauce with crabs.

So, fry the garlic until it became golden brown, then remove it from the oil. If you have a whole crabs, then cut them into several pieces. Put them into a pan and cover it immediately, because there will be splash of oil. After 5 minutes, heft the cover and pour the wine into the pan with the crabs. Another 2-3 minutes and you can pour passata into the pan. Leave it to stew. Boil down Passata a little, then add water to the pan (boiling water) and salt (quite a bit, because the sauce will be boiled down and salinity increase). When the water begins to boil, remove crabs from the pan and add spaghetti - that's why we took a large frying pan)) fit perfectly in her full-length spaghetti) You can put crabs back at the end of cooking before serving, so they will be hot. Or leave them outside - it's your choice, just leave them on the plate wait an hour, when you deal with them)

So we do not cook the spaghetti separately but in sauce, because they will absorb a full taste of the sauce, and you just can not break away until eat all))

The time necessary to cook spaghetti read on the package. But of course we are preparing them by eye, or rather by taste - as the Italians say, "al dente", which means to the tooth. When spaghetti are ready they are not hard inside, but a little sink in teeth. Then while you put them on a plate and carry on the table, they will reach the desired condition, but will not be overcooked.

Before serving dish, sprinkle with chopped parsley and / or pecorino cheese. Parsley can also be added to the spaghetti for 3-5 minutes before finish to cook.

Bon appetit) 

Pasta con le vongole - pasta with clams recipe

Today after many time I sharing with you a new recipe. It's spaghetti with clams - in italian spaghetti con le vongole. It's very simple and easy recipe. It need only about 15 minutes!

You will need 300 gram of fresh clams (vongole) per person, not cleaned or frozen! You can make clams spaghetti with frozen clams but the taste will be pretty much different.
Couple cloves of garlic.
Spaghetti pasta 100 gram per person.
Olive oil.
Couple tablespoons of white wine.
Salt.

Pasta and the rest will be cooked separately and combined in the end, so let's start with putting water on to boil for the spaghetti.

Peel garlic and roast it till golden in olive oil. It's better to remove the garlic cloves in the end of roasting. Add clams.

Saute, add couple tablespoons of white wine and saute a few more minutes.
You may want to take out the clams to a separate bowl at this time.
When water comes to boil, cook the spaghetti. Cook until almost ready (one minute shorter than cooking time on the package and drain them well!)

Add spaghetti to the sauce and simmer a couple more minutes.
And that's it! Clams spaghetti is ready. Serve clams over spaghetti on every plate or the clams may be served in separate bowl where everyone can take as much as they want.

Spaghetti alla matriciana

I'm living in Italy. This is the country with long traditions, also in the kitchen. Especially is famous for pasta. I decided to put here some recipes. In one of previouse post i explain how to cook Spaghetti with garlic, olio and hot pepper - It's one of the dish we cook often at home. Today I explain another one simple recipe of pasta, that you can cook for a dinner - Spaghetti alla matriciana. It's famous italian plate you can find in most of italian restourants in all the world. It dos't need many ingredients and only 30 minutes to cook!

Spaghetti with garlic, olio and hot pepper

I'm living in Italy. This is the country with long traditions, also in the kitchen. Especially is famouse pasta. I decided to put here some recipes of the kitchen of our region - Salento. It's the region of olives and vine. One of the dish we cook often at home is Spaghetti aglio, olio, peperoncino - Spaghetti with garlic, olio and hot pepper. It's simple recipe that don't needs many ingredients and only 20 minutes to cook!