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Seafood Salad and Spaghetti with Heirloom Tomato Sauce

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This video features 2 recipes:

Seafood Salad
Spaghetti with Heirloom Tomato Sauce


Seafood Salad

by Chef Nico Chessa

Summary: This is a wonderful light, main dish to serve when you aren’t in the mood for a heavy meal. Shrimp, clams, mussels and calamari marinated in olive oil and lemon juice and fresh herbs for a crowd-pleasing cool summertime salad.

Cooking time (duration): 40 minutes

Number of servings (yield): 6

Ingredients

  • Mussels
  • Clams
  • Shrimp
  • Calamari
  • 3-4 cloves garlic
  • Salt and pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Fresh parsley
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 lime
  • 1 orange

Get Ready To Work in “Real Time” to Make Seafood Salad

Get out these items and utensils: Knife for chopping, 2 frying pans, 1 big bowl

Get from your pantry: Garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper.

Get from your refrigerator: Mussels, clams, shrimp, calamari, fresh Parsley, lemon, lime, orange

Pre-prepare the following:

  • Peel and chop garlic
  • Chop fresh parsley.
  • Clean and de-vain the shrimp.
  • Salt and pepper calamari
Begin to cook with Chef Chessa:
Cook mussels and clams

  1. Take pan put mussels and clams in it.
  2. Pour 3-4 table spoon of olive in it.
  3. Add chopped garlic and parsley in the pan.
  4. Cover the pan and steam mussels and clams for about 4 minutes. The shells of them will open.
  5. Pour everything from the pan in a bowl and refrigerate it for 30 minutes.

Cook Calamari and Shrimp

  1. Take pan put calamari in it without oil. Do not touch it. Cook it for 45 seconds.
  2. Add shrimp and add salt and pepper on the shrimp.
  3. Pour 1-2 tablespoon of olive oil on the pan.
  4. Flip Calamari and shrimp and cover the pan cook it for 3 minutes or so.

Prepare seafood salad:

  1. Take the bowl of clams and mussels from the refrigerator. Clean mussels and clams. Put that on a plate.
  2. Make juliennes of calamari and lay it over mussels and clams.
  3. Lay shrimp on top of clams.
  4. Squeeze lemon lime and orange on it.
  5. Pour some olive oil on top of the salad.
  6. Cover it with foil and marinade it overnight.


Spaghetti with Heirloom Tomato Sauce

by Chef Nico Chessa

Summary: Classic and delicious Italian dish cooked in minutes having heirloom tomato sauce on the Capellini Pasta garnished with fresh basil.

Prep time and Cooking time (duration): 7 minutes

Number of servings (yield): 2-3

Ingredients for Spaghetti with Heirloom Tomato Sauce

  • 5-6 medium size Heirloom Tomatoes
  • Fresh sweet basil
  • Pepper
  • Salt
  • Garlic
  • Olive oil
  • Capellini Pasta

Get Ready To Work in “Real Time” to Make Spaghetti with heirloom tomato sauce:

Get out these items and utensils: Knife for chopping, 2 sauce pan

Get from your pantry: Garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, Capellini pasta

Get from your refrigerator: Fresh Parsely

Pre-prepare the following:

  • Peel and mash garlic
  • Chop fresh parsley.
  • Chop tomatoes.
  • Boil water in pan and add salt in it.

Begin to cook with Chef Chessa:

  1. Prepare sauce
  2. Heat oil in the pan.
  3. Add mashed garlic in the pan. Temper it for 30 seconds.
  4. Add Chopped fresh basil.
  5. Add tomatoes in the pan.
  6. Cook them for 2 minutes.

Cook Spaghetti

  1. Add Capellini pasta in the boiling water having salt in it.
  2. Cook pasta for 1 minute.

Prepare Spaghetti with heirloom tomato sauce

  1. Add pasta in the pan with the sauce and cook for 1 minute.
  2. Stir it properly so that taste of sauce is absorbed by pasta.

To serve:

  1. Put the pasta and sauce on a serving plate.
  2. Pour some olive oil in it.
  3. Garnish it with basil.

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