Linguine ai Frutti di Mare {Seafood Linguine}
Frutti di Mare translates to fruits of the sea and boy is this dish full of fruits from the sea. It has almost all of my favorite seafood: Mussels, Clams, Shrimp and Scallops. If it happened to have had some lobster & crab well I would have just been in seafood heaven! If you don’t happen to like some of these *and gasp if you don’t* just leave them out.
It’s an impressive dish too but I will warn you it takes a little timing and a lot of pans LOL. You WILL use your entire stove top. Don’t let that scare you, you’ll just need to be at the stove and keep an eye on everything at ONE time. BEFORE you start cooking make sure you have your mise en place all set. French for putting in place. And well, that’s just a fancy term for having your prep work all finished and ready to go. For this recipe, that means having your garlic minced, your seafood debearded and cleaned, your herbs roughly chopped, wine opened, etc.
This is a great dish for company! Very impressive and very filling. You could serve up to 6 people with this dish depending on how much seafood you divvy out per plate ; ) But it will absolutely serve 4 easily. I only used a 1/2 lb of sea scallops in this because the ones I picked up were HUGE & I ended up cutting them in half, that’s how big they were. If you love scallops and want more, just add more ; )
It’s the perfect meal to enjoy al freso with a bottle (or two LOL) of wine! Now if it was on the terrazzo at the beach in Italy… *dreaming*
Baci!
What you’ll need:
1 lb Linguine – (I like Barilla)
1 lb Mussels – cleaned and de-bearded
1 lb shrimp – peeled & deveined with tails on
1/2 lb sea scallops
1 lb Clams
I 14.5 oz can of Italian Whole Tomatoes
7 cloves of garlic – minced
1 tbsp flat leaf Italian Parsley – roughly chopped (plus additional to garnish)
1 tbsp Basil – roughly chopped
3/4 cup White Wine
3 tbsp Unsalted Butter
2 tbsp Olive Oil
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What to do:
Place a stock pot of water onto boil for your pasta. Season it generously with salt. When water is boiling add the pasta and cook until al dente. RESERVING 1 cup of the cooking liquid for later. Drain pasta and have it ready to transfer to serving bowl.
WHILE pasta is cooking, Into a VERY large deep sided pan, heat 1 tbsp of olive oil and 1 tbsp butter over medium heat. When melted add 4 cloves of garlic and saute for approx 1 min. Increase heat to medium – high add the mussels and clams (being sure you have discarded any with broken shells) pour wine over seafood, add parsley, cover with a lid and allow to steam until they are open. CAREFULLY shake the pan occasionally. If the liquid level (wine) decreases too rapidly you can add more wine when necessary.
WHILE Mussels & Clams are cooking, into a separate pan place 1 tbsp of oil and 1 tbsp butter over medium heat. When melted add 2 cloves of garlic the shrimp and the scallops and cook until shrimp is pink in color and has a “C” shape. Using a slotted spoon transfer the shrimp and scallops to a serving bowl and keep warm. DISCARD almost all of the cooking liquid (leaving approx 1 tbsp) and return pan to heat.
Add the tomatoes, crushing them with your spoon. Season with salt and pepper. Add basil and 1 clove of garlic and cook over medium heat. Stirring as necessary. Add 1 tbsp of butter and if necessary add some of the reserved cooking liquid from the pasta until sauce is to desired consistency and taste. Cooking time is Approx 5 mins.
Into a VERY large serving bowl add sauce and pasta. Toss together to combine. Add the seafood and GENTLY toss together. Serve immediately. Garnish with additional parsley.
Buon Appetito!
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Good God. I knew I’d regret clicking on this recipe. But in a good way.
Looks amaaaaaazing!
Frutti di mare is one of my all time favorite dishes, and yours looks absolutely amazing! You’re right, it does take a lot of pots and impeccable timing, but it’s all worth it in the end!
My mouth is watering!!!!!!! Need to drop in…
-Natasha
Oh I saw this retweeted by bellavventura…. my absolute favourite pasta and fish dish
When I do get to Italy I eat more Fish than anything else.. just cannot get enough of it. Thank you for the recipe.
This would be one of my favorite dishes…minus the creatures still in their shells!
I would add in crab or lobster with the shrimp and scallops. That would be awesome!
My favourite! Cooked to perfection. I make a similar very famous dish too, only instead of basil I add parsley and some red pepper flakes-Spaghetti allo scoglio! Could so eat this right now!!
THAT LOOKS UNBELIEVABLE. Just what I am in the mood for! Perhaps I will make this for dinner this week. Yumm!
One of my favorite dishes!
I want some of all of it!! The hubby doesn’t like mussels and clams, but I think I’ll just tell him to fend for himself when I decide to make this
This looks incredible. Simple fresh ingredients too. Love it. And I am sure my husband will appreciate me using tons of dishes to make it too
Be still my heart! Yummy!!
this looks just lovely. Quite Springy.
Doesn’t get much better than this.
A Seafood lover like me will eat this dish anytime anywhere… great stuff. Photos looks great and I can smell those shells from here.
Oh my goodness this looks like heaven! You’re killing me here!
I agree with Fuji Mama, this looks like heaven. Can’t wait to try it.
yum, this looks so fresh and delicious! i love seafood with pasta.
totally understand about pans and timings! I made it for a relative once and I was all over the place… everything had to be perfect but tasted so good though
Looks yummy and takes me back to last summer when I was on the Amalfi coast. Adding this to our menu rotation
One of my all time favorite dishes. Ever.
yum this looks great! my boyfriend recently got sick after eating some muscles and won’t allow them on the dinner table just yet but I think I can convince him to have the clams and other seafood
This is one of my favorites!
What a gorgeous blog! and you food looks pretty awesome too. That’ll be tomorrows dinner sorted then. Looking forward to munching on this one. Thanks so much for sharing.
Beautiful! Definitely on my list of my favorite foods – alongside with Swedish Crêpes of course.
This is one of my favorite dishes! Great blog!
Love the recipe, simple ingredients and great taste. Also love your site.
Just another fabulous recipe from you to add to the zillions of ones I’m loving. Perfect Summer dish with a chilled bottle of vino.
That looks absolutely divine! I LOVE seafood but have a family of seafood haters. I think this is one I must try sometime!
Your blog layout is absolutely incredible! I love the look! Its gorgeous!
Impressive! Fruit of the sea? It’s the whole #&*@ orchard!
Great classic!