Servings: people
Pasta with Smoked Mussels
Quick and delicious dinner that can be made in under 15 minutes. The main ingredients are pasta and mussels, and you can actually vary the dish in all the ways you want. I had a bit of Pasta Carbonara in the back of my mind when I thought of this dish, just where the smoked mussels replaced my bacon.
Equipment
- Cutting Board
- Chef'S Knife
- Sauté Pan
- Pot
Ingredients
- 250 gram Pasta fresh
- Salt
- 0.5 pcs. Shallots mine was large. Use 1 whole if it has a regular size
- 2 cans Garlic
- 200 gram Cream
- 0.5 can Blue Mussels smoked
- Lemon Juice
- Herbs e.g., flat-leaf parsley
- Seaweed can be omitted
- Parmesan grated
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
- Finely chop onions and garlic and put them in a sauté pan.
- Sauté them over medium-high heat (10 out of 14 on my stove). They should not take color.
- The pasta should be cooked in plenty of water according to the package instructions. Mine took 4 minutes.
- Add the cream and turn up the heat slightly so it reduces a bit.
- Take the pasta out of the pot and put it directly in the pan with cream and onions. The reason you shouldn't drain the water is that we want some of the cooking water to go with the pasta into the pan as it helps to combine the dish.
- Turn the pan down to low heat (4 out of 14 on my stove),
- When all the pasta is in the pan, add the mussels and mix everything well together.
- Add a bit of lemon juice.
- Stir a little and let it sit for 1 minute, so it combines, and the mussels get a bit of temperature.
- Add freshly ground pepper and freshly grated Parmesan over the dish.
- Chop parsley and season with salt. I had a bit of seaweed left over from our film shoot, so I used that instead of salt.
- Bon appétit.