Clams Ajillo Pasta (Pasta +Ajillo)

Cooking time approximately 30 minutes

Ingrediencies

Pasta 100g×3person = 300g
Garlic 1 whole piece
Onion 1 whole piece
Clams 360g
Mushroom 5pieces
Cooking Sake or White wine 100cc
Dry red chili pepper 5 pieces
Parsley 1packet(3.5g)
2Large spoonful of Olive oil
A pinch of Salt and Pepper
A pinch of Ajinomoto
One table spoon of salt for the Pasta
Water 1.5L for the Pasta
How to make
- Cut the edge of the onion and garlic, to put on a mixer.
- Cut the mushrooms into 3mm pieces.
- Fry the finely chopped onion, garlic and mushrooms with 5 Dry red chili peppers.
- Add salt and pepper and Ajinomoto, and keep on stir frying until the onions are soft and slightly brown.
- Add 360g of clams and continue stir-frying, adding 100cc of cooking sake.
- Cover and simmer for 10to15 minutes.
- Start boiling the pasta.
- Remove the 5 dry red chili peppers.
- Add one teaspoonful of salt to the boiling water and check the pasta.
- Put the boiled pasta into the frying pan.
- Add one packet of parsley and keep on stir frying.
- Add 2 ladles of boiled juice.
- Sprinkle some Ajinomoto to adjust the taste.
- Add some salt and pepper and heat again.


Point in check
This time, I used frozen Calms and saved time and did not use time for the calms to spit the sand out. 360 g of calms was quite a volume to eat. Usually, the pasta used is 60g~70g,but this time I used a little more for my lunch. I tried to create a harmony with onion, garlic and mushroom, and made the taste stronger with cooking sake, topped with parsley. We devised a way to spread the taste of the main clams to the whole, well.



Personal Comments
This Clams Ajillo dish can be completed as a recipe without the pasta. I blended the parsley and pasta to create a unique taste. Although, the cooking time was short, the taste was quite strong. I was worried if the parsley was too significant, and it did leave a strong impact. Choosing ingrediencies which leaves a strong taste such as garlic, hot pepper and onion to do the basics, followed by calms and cooking sake, I could have added butter to make the taste milder, but this time I did not.

