Haha yes, another entry for the day! Busy busy busy. Hehe. This time tonight for dinner, my mom made Seafood Spaghetti!
I can feel my taste buds tingling now, can you?
With this recipe, you can really taste the seafood-ness of the prawns and clams and squid! Ooooh~~ I admit I don't really like seafood (except for prawn and crabs. I love those!! fish is so-so.)
So here's the recipe for a really mouth-watering Seafood Spaghetti! (even sitting at the table, smelling it made me salivate!):
Ingredients:
First, you shell your prawns and set the shells aside as well (do not throw them out!)
In a frying pan, heat up the oil until hot and fry the prawn shells along with the heads as well. (this is what gives the dish its seafood flavour. the more, the better!) Best if you use olive oil to fry, it gives the dish a good flavour and body to it.
After frying until really fragrant, remove shells and heads from pan. You can discard it now.
Marinate your prawns, clams (set aside half before you marinate, it will be used separately later on) and squid with salt and pepper before frying each individually (that means fry all 3 ingredients separately, removing one ingredient from the pan before adding another to fry) in the same pan. Also, put a slice of butter (approx 1 thick") before you fry each ingredient.
Make sure you discard any clams has its shell unopened after it has been fried - this means it is rotten and should not be consumed.
For the half portion of clams that you've set aside, boil it in some water long enough for the shells to open to make it easier for you to remove it (not too much, just enough to cover almost halfway). Once you've removed the shells, boil the shell-less clams in the same water again till fragrant. This will be the 'clam juice' that will be included into the dish to give it the seafood-y taste as well. Take out the clams and set aside both juice and clam.
Fry your garlic in the same frying pan until it is a bit fragrant. Add tomato puree, blended tomatoes and clam juice. Add sugar, and then add 2 chicken cubes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Add water. Bring to a boil, stirring it. Add chopped parsley and let it simmer, with the lid on until you get the consistency that you want. Do not put in your seafood yet, only add it all in just before serving.
Just before serving, add your prawns, clams and squid into the sauce and stir on low heat, long enough to just mix it all properly and take it off the fire immediately. It has already been cooked so further cooking will result in the seafood to become hard.
You can serve this dish separately (spaghetti and seafood sauce) or you can even mix it in the frying pan (if it is big enough) like what my mom has done!
It seems like a tiny bit of a hassle to make, but man, if you know what it tastes like, you won't mind at all!
Oh man I am hungry again even my looking at the pictures! And I just ate! This is a must-try for seafood-lovers! :D~
I can feel my taste buds tingling now, can you?With this recipe, you can really taste the seafood-ness of the prawns and clams and squid! Ooooh~~ I admit I don't really like seafood (except for prawn and crabs. I love those!! fish is so-so.)
So here's the recipe for a really mouth-watering Seafood Spaghetti! (even sitting at the table, smelling it made me salivate!):
Ingredients:
- Meduim-sized prawns
- clams
- squid
- 1 stick butter
- 1 medium can tomato puree
- 2 cans diced tomatoes, blended (you may even choose to just blend one and a half cans, the other half will give the dish some colour) (or you can substitute for 10 fresh tomatoes, skin peeled off and boiled till soft and blend that as well)
- Parsley, chopped (my mom used English Parsley)
- 2 cubes chicken stock
- 2 heads garlic, finely chopped or put through a garlic press
- 2 tbsp sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 packet spaghetti, cooked (refer to this entry of mine on how to cook spaghetti properly)
First, you shell your prawns and set the shells aside as well (do not throw them out!)
In a frying pan, heat up the oil until hot and fry the prawn shells along with the heads as well. (this is what gives the dish its seafood flavour. the more, the better!) Best if you use olive oil to fry, it gives the dish a good flavour and body to it.
After frying until really fragrant, remove shells and heads from pan. You can discard it now.
Marinate your prawns, clams (set aside half before you marinate, it will be used separately later on) and squid with salt and pepper before frying each individually (that means fry all 3 ingredients separately, removing one ingredient from the pan before adding another to fry) in the same pan. Also, put a slice of butter (approx 1 thick") before you fry each ingredient.
Make sure you discard any clams has its shell unopened after it has been fried - this means it is rotten and should not be consumed.
For the half portion of clams that you've set aside, boil it in some water long enough for the shells to open to make it easier for you to remove it (not too much, just enough to cover almost halfway). Once you've removed the shells, boil the shell-less clams in the same water again till fragrant. This will be the 'clam juice' that will be included into the dish to give it the seafood-y taste as well. Take out the clams and set aside both juice and clam.
Fry your garlic in the same frying pan until it is a bit fragrant. Add tomato puree, blended tomatoes and clam juice. Add sugar, and then add 2 chicken cubes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Add water. Bring to a boil, stirring it. Add chopped parsley and let it simmer, with the lid on until you get the consistency that you want. Do not put in your seafood yet, only add it all in just before serving.
Just before serving, add your prawns, clams and squid into the sauce and stir on low heat, long enough to just mix it all properly and take it off the fire immediately. It has already been cooked so further cooking will result in the seafood to become hard.
You can serve this dish separately (spaghetti and seafood sauce) or you can even mix it in the frying pan (if it is big enough) like what my mom has done!
It seems like a tiny bit of a hassle to make, but man, if you know what it tastes like, you won't mind at all!
Oh man I am hungry again even my looking at the pictures! And I just ate! This is a must-try for seafood-lovers! :D~
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