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Spaghetti alle vongole

Ingredients

– 1kg clams
– 1 packet good quality spaghetti
– 4 cloves garlic, sliced thin
– 1 red chilli, finely diced
– Bunch flat-leaf parsley, cut finely
– 100ml extra virgin olive oil
– 100ml white wine
– Salt to taste (careful as the clams are salty)

Method

1. Cook the spaghetti in a large pot of salted boiling water for the time it says on the pack (I normally cook mine a little less than the pack says).
2. In a large frying pan, heat the oil and add the garlic and chilli.
3. Next, add the washed clams and toss.
4. Add the white wine and cover it with a lid.
5. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until the clams open.
6. Add the cooked pasta to the pan and toss well.
7. Add some of the starchy cooking water to the pan to help emulsify the sauce.
8. Toss through the parsley and check the seasoning.
9. Serve and enjoy!

50 Comments

  1. Spooky – I had this last night and made it exactly the same way – I love it – it only takes fifteen minutes including the prep – just be careful with the chilli!

  2. The guy always cooks and takes care of her while she just lounges around the house, but God forbid he ever corrects his wife when she mispronounces a dish.

  3. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe! My grandma used to always cook this for us, brought back a lot of memories ❤️❤️❤️

  4. One of my all time favourite dishes. I do prefer to use linguine over spaghetti though, holds the light sauce a bit better & just has a better mouthfeel.

  5. Bro, way too much garlic, you just need at least one garlic per two people, chop it very thin. Also a better job could be done filtering the sauce and finishing the pasta inside the filtered clams water, adding a little water pasta so that the gluten gives texture to the sauce. Then, when plating, you add the clams.

    Being Italian this is cuisine class 1 but you my friend did a very good job

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