Italian Version Simple recipes to prepare quickly a tasty pasta dish
AUTHOR: Lino Bertuzzi
09/25/2023
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Foreword

WARNING (again):
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IMPORTANT AGAIN:

  1. before using any ingredient make sure you are not allergic to the ingredient itself.
  2. Before inviting friends to dinner to show how good you are at cooking, try making this dish yourself at least 2 times.
  3. Especially when you use garlic, make sure that your partner or all your friends you did invite will eat pasta too. Don't kiss anyone who hasn't eaten it with you.
  4. Here the given doses are for 2 people. Increase everything in direct proportion if there are more guests.

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Pasta with shelled and frozen mussels (for 2 persons)

Ingredients : here is an example of how to prepare a good dish of tasty pasta for 2 which requires little more than cooking time to prepare it:

  Spaghetti 200 g  (one hundred grams each) 750 Kcal /  3135 Kj
  Olive Oil 30cc (1/3 of a glass) 270 Kcal /  305 Kj
  Garlic   nº garlic cloves finely chopped DONT REMOVE CENTER
  FROZEN MUSSELS 100 g or as you want 100 Kcal / 418 Kj
  COARSE SALT one full soup spoon  
  Fine grain salt a pinch of salt to the sauce  
 

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The total calories of this preparation are approximately 1000 - 1200

Procedure:

  • POTS:you need
    • a round pot for pasta about 8-9" in diameter and the same height
    • A large saucepot as shown hereunder


Large and profound pot to cook mussels with olive oil and garlic

  • Fill the smaller pot a little more than half with water, add the salt and put it on the heat. ADD THE COARSE SALT AND PASTA - carefully - WHEN THE WATER BEGINS TO BOIL.
  • In the meantime, prepare the sauce as follow:
    • clean the garlic cloves and chop finely
    • Put oil and chopped garlic into the bigger pan and put it on heat (medium). Stir with a wooden spoon.
    • when the garlic begins to take light colour or better when you smell stronger scent (do not burn!) bring the heat to medium and add the frozen mussels. Mix with a wooden spoon
    • hold mixing the frying mussels until you smell a cooked scent. End of the sauce preparation.

    Garlic is frying
    Mussels cooking

    FINAL STEPs

    • Drain the spaghetti and pour them in
    • pour a half ladle of cooking water
    • Stir over medium heat until the water evaporates
    • Serve

     
    Here we are (from ab 100 grams of dry spaghetti)

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