What is the secret to cooking perfect linguine with clams? All revealed in Mainardi’s recipe.
In recent years, seafood-based cuisine has conquered palates all over the world, establishing itself as one of the most popular gastronomic trends. The sushi, for example, played a central role in this revolution. Originating in Japan, it has become a global phenomenon, in part due to the success of the formulas “all you can eat”.
In addition to sushi, the local Mediterranean cuisine it is one of the gems of world gastronomy. Fish-based dishes, such as seafood risotto, fried calamari and Marche broth, are just some of the flagships of the peninsula, although their environmental impact is strong.
However, globally every culture has developed iconic seafood-based dishes. In Spain, for example, the Paella it is a combination of rice, saffron and a variety of seafood and shellfish. In Mexico, there are the fresh cevicheprepared with raw fish marinated in lime juice, while in Morocco, the pastilla of fish.
Recently, restaurants from other cultures in addition to those mentioned have also been imported into Italy. An example is the restaurant Thai which prepares the tom yum goong, a spicy soup made with prawns, lemongrass, lime and kaffir leaves.
Linguine with clams
Linguine is a symbol of our nation’s seafood-based culinary tradition. Also thanks to social it has also been possible to import this cult abroad, so much so that many tourists come to Italy just to eat this type of food.
Furthermore, cinematographic culture has given its contribution, with titles such as Eat, pray, love, starring Julia Roberts. The protagonist, following a breakup, understands that she must undertake an internal journey, which originates from the pleasure of food. She therefore goes to Italy. But the linguine How should they be cooked?
Andrea Mainardi’s advice
Not everyone might know it but Andrea Mainardi is a very famous chef, who has garnered success thanks to the television program The cook’s test. According to the chef, the right and secret recipe for perfect linguine with clams is the following.
First, you need to cook the oil with the chili, the garlic in a shirt and some peels of lime. After having fried and cleaned the clams, you must throw them into the pan and deglaze with white wine. After two minutes, you need to cook the pasta in the clam cooking broth. Wait 7 minutes, add water, parsley and stir. Voila!
