Pasta Mista with Beans & Mussels

Name: Pasta Mista with Beans & Mussels
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 10 oz. cherry tomatoes, halved; 1½ lb. mussels, scrubbed and debearded; ½ tsp. chile flakes; 2 ribs celery, finely chopped; 20 fresh basil leaves, torn into pieces; Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste; 7 oz. mixed dried small pasta, such as orzo, and broken linguine and fusilli; 1 15-oz. can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed; ¾ cup extra-virgin olive oil; 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Italian Comfort Food

By The Editors of Saveur

Published 2015

About

A delicious marriage of mussels and creamy beans, the sauce for this fragrant dish is traditionally poured over pasta mista, a mixture of small and broken pasta shapes. Pasta odds and ends in the pantry? Add them to the pot.

Ingredients

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
7 oz. mixed dried small pasta, such as orzo, and broken linguine and fusilli
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Europe
Italy
Main course
Pescatarian
Wedding/Marriage
Mediterranean
Pasta

Method

In a large pot of generously salted boiling water, cook pasta until al dente, about 5 minutes. Drain, reserving 1½ cups cooking water; set aside. Add half of beans and 1 cup pasta cooking