Best Clam Pasta Recipe

Ingredients – 4 Servings

• 400 g Spaghetti or your favourite pasta
• 300 g clean clams or mussels (you need about 1 kg unopened clams or mussels
• 2 -zucchinis
• 5-6 cherry tomatoes, or 2 medium ripe tomatoes
• 1- garlic clove
• Olive oil
• Salt, pepper, fresh parsley

Directions

1. First, we need to open the mussels or clams, or both and clean them from their shells.
2. In a pan, add a little oil and the clams, and we will cover it with a lid. The clams will open in a few minutes. Once they opened, let cool and clean from the shell, keeping apart for our recipe.
3. In a pasta casserole, add water and put it to boil.
4.  In a saucepan, add a little olive oil, the garlic clove and let the oil heat and garnish with the garlic flavour.
5.  Cut zucchinis in small dices and add to the saucepan. Stir-fry for 3-4 minutes until it tender, covering with a lid.
6. Cut cherry tomatoes in half, or if you have other tomatoes indices. Add the tomatoes to the Zucchini sauce, add a little salt, pepper, and let them cook for 3-5 minutes until the tomato melted and creates a sauce.
7. Add a little salt to the boiling water, and the pasta to cook. We will cook the pasta 2-3 minutes less than the indicated time on the package. We will finish the pasta cooking in the sauce.
8. Add the clean clams or mussels, or both to the zucchinis and tomatoes sauce and let them cook together for other 2-3 minutes.
9. Add the pasta to the sauce, a little water from the boiling pasta, if it needed, and cook all together for 2-3 minutes, until the pasta to cook properly and to season with the sauce taste.
10. Add a little salt and pepper if needed, and garnish with fresh chopped parsley and olive oil.
11. Serve it immediately.