Description
Literally “fruit of the sea”. This is a seafood extravaganza ladled over pasta with an immensely flavorful sauce. And it’s very fast and easy.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 ½ tablespoons crushed red pepper
- 1 ½ cups Chardonnay white wine
- 1 cup clam juice
- 6 cups marinara sauce
- 8 leaves fresh basil, coarsely chopped
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 (16 ounce) package linguine pasta
- 1 pound uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- ⅓ pound scallops
- 3 whole lobster tails, shelled, cleaned, and chopped
- 24 medium mussels mussels, cleaned and debearded
- 24 medium (blank)s littleneck clams, scrubbed
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley, or to taste
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, or to taste
Instructions
- Pour olive oil into a large pan over medium heat. Add garlic and crushed red pepper; cook until fragrant
- 30 to 40 seconds. Pour in white wine and increase heat to medium-high. Let wine reduce by half
- about 8 minutes. Add clam juice and reduce heat to medium-low. Pour in marinara
- basil
- and salt. Let simmer to let flavors marry
- about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook linguine at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite
- about 11 minutes. Drain and set aside.
- Add shrimp
- scallops
- lobster
- mussels
- and clams to the sauce and cook until clams and mussels open
- scallops are opaque
- shrimp is pink
- and lobster is red on the outside and opaque on the inside
- 8 to 10 minutes.
- Toss linguine in sauce until it’s thick enough to coat the noodles (it will still be a relatively thin sauce)
- about 3 minutes.
- Plate noodles and load up with seafood and sauce. Garnish with parsley
- and serve immediately with Parmesan cheese.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 8