The Happy Home Cook: Linguini and Clams

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Linguini with clams (Photo by toniher/Wikimedia Commons)

Linguini with clams (Photo by toniher/Wikimedia Commons)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 lbs Linguine
8 tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp red chili peppers, finely chopped
Clams, 50 + fresh or
   6-6 1/2 oz cans whole baby clams
3/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup butter
10 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 cup parsley, chopped
1/4 cup oregano, chopped
1/4 cup basil, chopped
1/4 cup thyme, chopped
1 lemon, large

Prepare linguine, al dente, lightly salted, drained. Saute in large skillet: olive oil, butter, garlic, parsley, oregano, basil, and thyme. Do not burn herbs! Reduce heat as soon as soft. Add clams. Continue to saute over low heat for 2 minutes or until fresh clams open. Squeeze in the juice of a large lemon. Add tomatoes and peppers. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add linguine and serve with parmesan cheese and garlic bread. (serves 6-8)

Note: Cecilia uses dried crushed chiles, not fresh chilis. She will sometimes use frozen clams (from Trader Joe’s).  This is easy to fix once you have all the ingredients. You could prepare the "sauce" before hand and cook the noodles last minute, if you want to serve at a particular time. Serve with hot French bread and good white wine. Yum!!!!

First published in: https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2013/04/cooking-with-cecilia-brainard-linguine.html

Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard

 Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the author and editor of 21 books. The Philippine edition of her first novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (University of Michigan Press) will be released by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House in 2019.

PALH (Philippine American Literary House), which she runs, has published Veronica Montes’s collection, Benedicta Takes Wings and Other Stories; Eve La Salle Caram’s novella, Please, San Antonio!; and Linda Ty-Casper’s A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories.

 

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Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard