Spaghetti alle Vongole: Pasta With Clam Sauce for Christmas Eve

Name: Spaghetti alle Vongole: Pasta With Clam Sauce for Christmas Eve
Cook time: 1/2 hour
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: Salt; to taste 2 pounds small clams; in their shells 3 tablespoons olive oil; plus more for serving 3 to 4 large cloves garlic; minced 3 tablespoons triple concentrate tomato paste 1/2 cup white wine 1 fresh red chili pepper; thinly sliced; or red pepper flakes 3 oil cured dried tomatoes; thinly sliced 1 pound spaghetti or linguine Finely chopped fresh parsley; to taste

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Francine Segan | Fri, 12/23/2022 - 00:45

Spaghetti alle vongole

Difficulty Level

Low

Cooking Time

1/2 hour

Cost

Low

Spaghetti alle vongole is a classic Italian dish that can be made with or without tomatoes, rosso or bianco, red or white. In Italy the dish is traditionally made with vongole veraci, “true clams,” AKA carpet clams, which are small grey clams with especially tasty meat. The dish is eaten in Italy all during the clam season from June to December and is often one of the “seven fishes” eaten on Christmas Eve in southern Italy.

The key to the dish is to steam the clams open se