How to prepare a good dish of spaghetti with lupini clams, small Adriatic clams, very flavorful, and perfect for bringing the sea to the table with a rich plate of pasta with lupini clams. The recipe for pasta and clams is a simple recipe, but many times it is done wrong because it is thought that simple recipes are easy, but it’s quite the opposite, simple recipes are the easiest to mess up, and we certainly don’t want to mess up, so I’ll leave you lots of valuable tips that will help you prepare a perfect dish of spaghetti and clams, so let’s see how.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Cost: Medium
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for Spaghetti with Lupini Clams
- 12.3 oz spaghetti
- 2.6 lbs lupini clams
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 chili pepper or crispy pepper
- to taste parsley
- to taste white wine
- to taste salt
- to taste olive oil
Tools for Preparing Spaghetti with Lupini Clams
- 1 Pot
- 1 Skillet
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Cutting Board
- 1 Knife
Steps to Prepare Spaghetti with Lupini Clams
Start at least 3-4 hours before by purging the clams. Place them in a bowl with cold water in which you dissolve a tablespoon of coarse salt. Leave them in the cool in this way, to make them release all the sand. Until ready to store them, keep them in the fridge in their net, wrapped in a damp cloth.
Rinse the clams and proceed with the recipe. Start by preparing garlic cut into pieces, removing the central core, and finely chopping parsley.
Put olive oil in a skillet, add the garlic, let it heat slightly, and add the clams. Let them go a bit, then add parsley and white wine. Let it go a bit more with the lid until all the clams open.
When the clams are open, put them in a bowl and filter all the remaining liquid. Remove most of the shells, leaving some with the shell to enhance the dishes.
Now cook the spaghetti in boiling and lightly salted water, usually, clams add saltiness to the pasta. Cook them for a few minutes, 3-4 minutes, then sauté them in a skillet with the leftover clam liquid and some pasta cooking water, to get a delicious creamy texture.
When the spaghetti is al dente, add the clams and mix well into the spaghetti, now our pasta with clams is ready to be enjoyed. Finally, add chopped parsley and crushed crispy pepper, off the heat, and mix.
Serve it, using also clams with shells, finally adding chopped parsley and if you like, chili pepper or as I did, crumbled crispy pepper. Just take a dry pepper, toast it in a skillet, to make it crunchy, and crumble it.
Now all that’s left is to bring a creamy and delicious spaghetti with lupini clams to the table.
