linguini with simple white clam sauce

Name: Linguini with Simple White Clam Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 can(s) chopped or mined clams drained save the juice; 1 bottle(s) clam juice; 2-3 clove(s) glaric, minced finely; - olive oil; 1/2 cup(s) Italian parsley minced; 1/2 cup(s) grated Parmesan cheese; 1 pound(s) linguine pasta

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Deb Lund

Rhinelander, WI

Updated on Aug 11, 2011

I was fixing dinner for this guy who I really liked, for the first time, and he asked for linguine with clam sauce. Well, I didn't have any idea how to make that. I asked at the ER I was working at and another nurse gave me her recipe. I went home and made it, not knowing if I would even like it. Fed the new boyfriend who said It was the best...that man became my husband so it must have worked magic! It has become a staple in our house. My sons like it too.

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prep time 10 Min

cook time 20 Min

method Stove Top

yield 4 serving(s)

Ingredients

2 cans chopped or mined clams drained save the juice
1 bottle clam juice
2-3 cloves glaric, minced finely
- olive oil
1/2 cup Italian parsley minced
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 pound linguine pasta

How To Make linguini with simple white clam sauce

Step 1

Do all your chopping, I recommend fresh garlic and Italian broad leaf parsley but can substitute regular curly leaf parsley. I use Parmesan that comes grated but you can grate your own. It does not change the measurements.

Step 2

Boil water and put pasta in to cook. Drain and add a bit of olive oil to the pasta to keep it from sticking
Step 3

Heat pan, add enough olive oil to cover the bottom of the pan.
Step 4

Add garlic and clams. Remember the clams are all ready cooked so a couple of stirs to soften the garlic and heat up the clams.
Step 5

Add the parsley and stir a few times until it is a little brighter in color.
Step 6

Stir in the clam juice from the cans and about 1/2 bottle of clam juice and heat up and simmer for about 1 minute
Step 7

Add the pasta. Keep the heat up and stir, add a little more clam juice if too dry.
Step 8

Stir in Parmesan cheese gradually to add some body.
Step 9

Serve with tossed salad and a good Italian bread with dipping oil and a crisp white wine. "si mangia"
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