Spaghetti with Clams & Tabasco

Name: Spaghetti with Clams & Tabasco
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons white wine; 160 g (5½ oz) spaghetti; ½ tablespoon chopped parsley; tabasco sauce, to serve; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) small clams (vongole veraci); 1 garlic clove, chopped; clump of parsley with stalks; 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra, for serving

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Limoncello and Linen Water

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2012

About

Here is a can’t-get-simpler way with clams that has a good kick. Some people may like a squeeze of lemon juice over their serving. Follow on from here with a strongly flavoured dish that won’t pale.

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb 2 oz) small clams (vongole veraci)

Europe
Italy
Main course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean

Method

Soak the clams in a large bowl of cold salted water for a couple of hours to get rid of any sand. Give them a good swishing around in the soaking water a few times and change the water if there is any sand. Discard any clams that are well opened.

In a large frying pan that will hold all your pasta later, heat the garlic in the olive oil until it smells good. Add the drained clams, parsl