Pasta with mussels

Italian pasta a la Napoli with sea reptiles. Italians have a magical ability - to create masterpieces from simple products. But even my modest efforts to prepare this pasta allowed me to mentally return to a warm September evening in a small cozy trattoria on the coast of Sicily.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 20 % 1 g
Fats 20 % 1 g
Carbohydrates 60 % 3 g
24 kcal
GI: 33 / 67 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Peel the garlic and chop it into rings. Wash the chili pepper pod, remove the stack and peel off the seeds.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    First you need to flavor the olive oil. Heat it in a frying pan. And fry the garlic until golden brown.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    As soon as the garlic is slightly browned, add the finely chopped onion to the pan. Fry it for a couple of minutes until soft.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Then add half! finely chopped chili pepper pod. Or add the whole pepper if you feel such an irresistible burning desire. Fry the vegetables for another minute.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Free cherry tomatoes from the stacks, wash and dry. Add to the pan.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Boil water in a saucepan. Add salt. Put the necessary portion of spaghetti in a saucepan vertically and gradually drown the spaghetti in boiling water with a spatula. Cook according to the instructions on the package. My pasta was ready eight minutes after re-boiling.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Pour dry white wine into the pan and add the mussels. On high heat, evaporate the wine for five to six minutes. There should be some sauce left. Add salt if necessary.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Flip the spaghetti into a colander. Then put the pasta in the form of a nest on plates. Add mussels with tomatoes on top. Pour over the sauce and garnish with fresh oregano or basil.

Of course, you can object that you can't cook Italian pasta in Russia.
After all, it needs to be prepared from real capellini with sun-soaked cherry tomatoes, young Italian wine and fresh mussels in the casement. And it would be even better to replace the mussels with freshly caught fresh langoustines.
But, as they say, in the presence of absence, and with the available ingredients, I got a very, very decent dish.
Is it worth saying that Italians fry exclusively in olive oil? There is only one condition: the oil must be of the extra virgin category, or first cold pressed.
If desired, before serving, you can sprinkle the pasta with finely grated Grana Padano or Parmesan.
I suggest serving such spaghetti with chilled white wine. Before tasting, crush the tomatoes with a fork and mix their juice with pasta.
Buon appetito!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • White wine - 78   kcal/100g
  • Fried mussels - 59   kcal/100g
  • Boiled mussels - 50   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Oregano fresh - 25   kcal/100g
  • Chili pepper - 40   kcal/100g
  • Cherry tomatoes - 15   kcal/100g
  • Spaghetti - 338   kcal/100g

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