Mouclade (mussels with spiced cream)
Expand your seafood horizons with this French-inspired recipe for mussels in a curry powder-spiced cream sauce. It's not as difficult as you might think
Spicy seafood spaghetti
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
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- Easy
- Serves 2
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- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 fat garlic clovescrushed
- 2 red chilliesdeseeded and finely chopped
- 150ml white wine(optional)
- 2 x 400g cans plum tomatoes
- 175g dried spaghetti(or pasta of your choice)
- 140g musselswashed and beards removed (you can ask your fishmonger to do this for you)
- 140g clamswashed
- 100g cooked lobstermeat
- chilli oilor olive oil, for drizzling
- ½ small pack parsleyroughly chopped
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal600
- fat10glow
- saturates2g
- carbs77g
- sugars14g
- fibre8g
- protein46g
- salt2.4g
Method
step 1
Put a large saucepan of salted water on to boil and cook the spaghetti following pack instructions. Heat the oil in a deep pan, add the garlic and chilli, and fry for 1-2 mins over a medium heat. Pour in the wine (if using) and simmer for 3-5 mins until it reduces by a third. Tip in the tomatoes, burst them with a wooden spoon and bring to a gentle simmer. Season well.
step 2
Discard any broken or open clams and mussels, then add to the tomato sauce and cover with a lid. Cook for about 3 mins until the shells open. Remove any mussels or clams with their shells still shut using a slotted spoon. Stir through the lobster meat.
step 3
Drain the spaghetti, reserving a little cooking water and add to the pan. Toss the spaghetti with tongs to coat in the sauce. Serve in big bowls with a drizzle of chilli or olive oil, a scattering of parsley and a good grinding of black pepper.
