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This tasty garlic mussel pasta with sea aster combines fresh Zeeland mussels, octopus tentacles and seasonal vegetables such as sea aster and purslane into an authentic Italian-inspired dish. This seafood aglio olio variant is ready in just 30 minutes and perfect for seafood and garlic lovers. With MSC-certified Zeeland mussels you can prepare a sustainable, tasty pasta dish that is reminiscent of Italian cuisine but with a unique Dutch twist!
Mussels from Zeeland, a party every year when they are available! The hanging culture mussels are always a little earlier than the bottom culture mussels. But at the end of May you can definitely eat mussels from your own sea again. And we love doing that at home. When I was a little girl I already thought it was a party because we ate delicious baguettes with sauces and I also liked to fish the pieces of carrot out of the pan. Garlic pasta mussels recipe Italian.
In this recipe we add some extra octopus and some sea lavender and purslane. All in season at the moment and with that you make this garlic mussel pasta with sea lavender, a kind of Italian seafood aglio olio pasta with a bit of spice because of the red pepper, to work!
Garlic Mussel Pasta with Sea Lavender – Italian Seafood Aglio Olio
Mussels hanging on long ropes in the sea, that is in short what the “hang cultured mussel” is. Because they hang in the water and do not lie on the bottom of the sea, they get more food and therefore grow faster. As a result, they are well over a month earlier than the other mussels on the bottom. The taste is no different, by the way, just the way of growing. Growing the hanging culture mussels goes a lot faster. Since 2011, the mussel fishery has been MSC certified, an important quality mark! This way you can be sure that catching these mussels will not have any adverse effects on the environment.
The Zeker Zeeuws quality mark is an extra quality mark that you can find on the packaging. If you buy these mussels, you know for sure that you have mussel seed until the final black shell on your plate actually comes from Zeeland. Because for years a lot of Danish mussels have been thrown into Zeeland water to be sold again as "real" Zeeland mussel. Mussels recipe Italian
Step by Step: How to Make Garlic Mussel Pasta
Here you will find the complete recipe with all the ingredients you need. I hope you have fun preparing the dish below.
Italian Garlic Mussel Pasta with Sea Lavender and Samphire
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Ingredients:
- 500 gr Zeeland mussels
- 2 octopus tentacles
- 150 gr sea lavender
- 10 twigs samphire
- ½ bak purslane
- 300 gr fresh pasta - linguine or spaghetti
- 5 toes Garlic
- 1 red pepper
from the pantry:
- salt
- peper
- 100 ml olive oil
- 50 ml White wine
- 2 el Persillade (spice mix)
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And this is how you make it:
- We cook the mussels first. Wash them well in cold water and then put them in a large saucepan with the wine. Bring to the boil and cook for a minute or 4. Remove them from the pan and let them cool.
- Chop the garlic and finely chop the chilli. Chop the samphire into small pieces. Cut the cooked octopus into slices.
- Clean the sea lavender and remove the leaves from the purslane sticks. We do not use the chopsticks.
- Take a large wok and heat the oil in it. Fry the garlic and red pepper on medium heat (not too hot), season with the parsley and pepper, be careful with salt. Do this on a low temperature otherwise the garlic will burn.
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta in another pan.
- Add the mussels (removed from the shell) and the octopus to the wok and also add the washed sea lavender. Stir fry briefly.
- Drain the pasta and add to the wok, and now you can also add the purslane leaves. Toss everything together so that everything is well mixed.
- Serve immediately in warmed pasta plates and garnish with fresh parsley and a drizzle of good olive oil. Delicious Bites!
Pasta, pasta mussel pasta recipe I like it and here are a number of other toppers that you really want to taste!
- This delicious vongole pasta with sea lavender and samphire.
- Or this one linguine aglio olio with small mussels.
- Or this classic one pot of pasta Primavera.
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Yummy!
Well, my wife can also prepare that sometimes. Hmmm
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