Clear Clam Sauce and Pasta
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 4 -8 garlic cloves, crushed (to taste)
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1⁄2 - 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
- 2 (6 ounce) cans clams
- 1⁄2 cup hot pasta water
- 1 lb of your favorite pasta
- parmesan cheese, to sprinkle on top
- toasted pine nuts (optional)
directions
- Start cooking pasta according to package instructions.
- While pasta is cooking put olive oil, crushed garlic and red pepper in sauce pan and cook on med-low until garlic just starts to turn golden.
- Then add the italian seasoning and cook 30 seconds more.
- Add clams and their juice and 1/2 cup boiling pasta water from the pasta pot and simmer for 1 minute then take it off the heat.
- Drain pasta and put it back it the pot you cooked it in and pour clam sauce over the top.
- Put back on low heat and let simmer for a minute.
- Plate up and sprinkle with parmesan cheese and pine nuts.
- Great with parmesan roasted tomato slices and crusty french bread!
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