Seafood Fra Diavolo
Need some spice in your love life? This low-ish effort dish will easily impress all the nice boys and girls, unless they have seafood allergies. That would be bad.
Equipment
- Mei Wok
Ingredients
- 12 oz Thin Spaghetti or your favourite dry pasta
- 0.7 lb Shrimp (With Head or Headless)
- 0.5 lb Scallops (preferably dry and medium sized)
- 0.7 lb Little Neck Clams
- 1 cup of tomato (a single medium to large will do)
- 1/3 cup Tomato Paste
- 1 tsp Crushed Red Pepper (1/2 Shin Ramen level of spice)
- 1.5 cups white wine
- 1 Shallot
- 6 Cloves of Garlic
- Parsley/Basil/Oregano
Instructions
- PREP your seafood: Wash shrimp, scallops and clams. Deshell and de-vein shrimp. If you have heads, you may keep them and incorporate the hepatopancreas/tomalley stuff into the sauce for a richer flavour. Purge the clams of sand and grit at least twice; if you have sand in your pasta, you will be very sad. If you have wet scallops, you may want to brine it in a bit of salt water with lemon juice for an hour or so.
- PREP everything else: Roughly dice shallots, finely slice garlic, and peel tomato. Coarsely chop tomatoes into 1" cubes. Size doesn't matter too much, because they will be crushed later anyway. Roughly chop the herbs.
- Sear Shrimp and Scallops with oil on medium-high heat in a skillet(OR #MEIWOK WOK) for two minutes on each side. You don't need to fully cook it, but you want a nice brown colour. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer them to a separate dish.
- Add oil into the pan and toast your garlic, shallots, and crushed red peppers until it becomes a nice golden colour. Add in your herbs.
- Add in the tomato chunks as well as the tomato paste. Mash down the tomato chunks and let it simmer for 5 mins while occasionally stirring.
- In a separate pot, boil hot water and cook your pasta according to packaging. Season your water with salt.
- Add in the white wine into the pan and let it come to a boil for two minutes.
- Throw in the clams and cover the pan for 7 minutes on medium-high heat.
- Uncover the pan and toss in your pasta, along with 1 cup of the pasta water. Replace shrimps and scallops back into the pan and mix together for another minute and remove from the heat.
- Discard any clams that have not opened and serve with herbs as garnish.
