Italian

Linguine with Clams

Name: Linguine with Clams
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb linguine; 3 lb littleneck clams; 6 garlic cloves; 1/3 cup olive oil; 1 cup seafood broth; 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes; 1/2 cup chopped parsley; 1 lemon; 1/2 tsp salt

Lucia @nonna_lucia

Linguine with Clams is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb linguine
3 lb littleneck clams
6 garlic cloves
1/3 cup olive oil
1 cup seafood broth
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1/2 cup chopped parsley
1 lemon
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Scrub the clams under cold water and discard any that stay open when tapped.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the linguine until just short of al dente.
Meanwhile heat the olive oil in a wide skillet over medium and cook the sliced garlic and red pepper flakes until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add the seafood broth and clams, cover, and steam until the shells open, about 6 minutes, discarding any that stay shut.
Reserve a cup of pasta water, then drain the linguine and add it to the skillet.
Toss with a splash of pasta water, the parsley, and a squeeze of lemon until the sauce clings.
Serve at once in warm bowls.

Watch how to cook Linguine with Clams

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Geoffrey Zakarian's Linguine with Clams | The Kitchen | Food Network Play the video

Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Linguine with Clams, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Linguine with Clams carries gluten and shellfish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Linguine with Clams
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	Yes	Affettati e Formaggio (Cold Cuts and Cheese Plate)
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 480 kcal
Protein: 19 g
Carbs: 66 g
Fat: 16 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 520 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Linguine with Clams takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.