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Seafood Pasta with Jumbo Prawns

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by Chef Dewayne Rose

Summary: Pasta with a medley of shellfish and lobster, topped with cream sauce.

Cooking time (duration): 15

Number of servings (yield): 2

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Ingredients

  • ½ Cup Garlic
  • 3 Tbsp. Olive Oil
  • 1 Cup White Wine
  • 8oz Clams
  • 1 Tsp. Salt
  • 4 Live Prawns
  • 16oz Whole Live Lobster
  • 8oz New Zealand Mussels
  • 8oz Black Mussels
  • ½ Cup Fresh Basil
  • 1 Stick of Butter
  • ½ Cup Green Onion
  • ½ Cup Cream
  • ¼ Cup Romano Cheese
  • ¼ Cup Parmesan Cheese
  • 16oz Penne Pasta
  • ½ Bell Pepper-Julienne

Instructions

  1. Start with a large pot, and bring water to boil
  2. Add pasta, and let cook
  3. In large pan, render oil hot
  4. Saute garlic
  5. Add Cherrystone Clams with a pinch of salt
  6. Add live prawns, mixing well
  7. While simmering clams and prawns, prepare to cook lobster
  8. In large pot, render boiling water
  9. Add whole lobster
  10. Allow lobster to cook until shell is a deep red, if not red in color it’s undercooked
  11. Remove lobster from pot, and cut lobster starting from top, split in half
  12. Return lobster to hot water in pot, this will remove the cavity
  13. Remove meat from claw, leaving whole. Leave half lobster intact with shell
  14. Back in pan, add new Zealand mussels and black mussels
  15. Cook until mussels and clams have opened up, and prawns are red in color
  16. Add white wine to deglaze, occasionally stirring seafood to prevent burning
  17. Add 4 Tbsp. butter to pan
  18. In another pan, render oil hot
  19. Add green onion and white wine
  20. Add fresh herbs
  21. Add Cream, stir
  22. Add Pecorino Romano cheese and parmesan cheese, adding remaining cream
  23. Drain pasta, and introduce to cream sauce pan
  24. Strain juices from seafood pan into cream sauce
  25. Add red bell peppers for color, mixing well
  26. Once pasta is mixed, remove from heat and arrange in serving bowl

To Serve:

  1. With pasta in serving bowl, top with prawn on each side of bowl
  2. Add half lobster tail to center of bowl, with claw meat on top
  3. Garnish with mix of clams and mussels
  4. Final garnish of fresh sprig of basil and a drizzle of olive oil
  5. Serve.

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