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Linguine with White Clam & Wine Sauce

hasan

40 min total · 25 min hands-on · 4 main-dish servings

Ingredients

  • Linguine with White Clam Sauce Ingredients (Recipe Above), with 8 Clams Left Unshucked
  • 1/4 Cup Dry White Wine
  • 1/2 Cup Loosely Packed Chopped Watercress, Or 2 Tablespoons Chopped Parsley

Instructions

  1. 1.When buying clams, leave 8 clams unshucked.
  2. 2.Prepare Linguine with White Clam Sauce as above but in step 3, when onion and garlic are tender, add dry white wine, unshucked clams, and clam liquid; over high heat, heat to boiling. Reduce heat to medium; cover and cook 5 to 10 minutes until clam shells open. Remove clams to bowl.
  3. 3.Then add chopped clams with salt and crushed red pepper to broth in saucepan; heat to boiling. Cook 1 minute. Remove saucepan from heat; stir in watercress or 2 tablespoons chopped parsley.
  4. 4.Serve linguine in bowls as above, tucking clams in shell into linguine.

Notes

'Elegant' variation of Linguine with White Clam Sauce. Good Housekeeping, May 1991. Each serving: About 680 calories, 22 g fat, 38 mg cholesterol, 455 mg sodium.