Seafood pasta is one of my favourite Italian dishes, it can be a bit hit and miss to find a decent one when eating out.
This recipe I came up with gives a great full flavoured seafood bang and a rich tasty tomato sauce.

Serves 2

Ingredients-
1 small red onion

1 red chilli

3-4 cloves garlic

A handful of Fresh oregano/basil/parsley

1 tablespoon tomato purée

200ml passata

1 glass white wine

1/4 of a lemon

150ml fish stock

Your choice of seafood, however I used the following-

White crab meat

Tiger prawns

Fresh squid

Fresh carpet clams

Mussels

Salt/pepper

1 teaspoon paprika

Sprinkle of celery salt.

Fresh Linguine or Spaghetti
Method-

1. Finely chop the onion/garlic/chilli/herbs.

2. Heat some olive oil in a large frying pan.

3. Add onion, some salt, pepper, paprika and celery salt to pan.

4. When the onions start to soften add the chilli.

5. When the onion and chilli are soft add the garlic and herbs. Simmer for 30 seconds or until the garlic is just soft and aromatic. Don’t burn the garlic.

6. Add the tomato purée, stir through and simmer for a couple of minutes.

7. Add white wine and reduce the sauce by 3/4.

8. Add the passata and stir through. Squeeze in the lemon juice and add the fish stock

9. Boil the water for the linguine.

10. Lave the sauce simmer until thick and rich.

11. While the sauce simmers shell and de-vein the prawns (if you want them out of their shells, alternatively you can leave them whole and peel after serving). Slice the squid into rings, wash the mussels and clams.

12. Add all the seafood except crabmeat.

13. Salt the boiling linguine water then add the pasta, if using dried pasta you’ll need to put your pasta in at around stage 11.

14. Add the crab meat, stir through and cook for around 2 minutes.

15. Drain the pasta and add to the seafood/tomato sauce pan and stir through, make sure you coat all of the pasta with the sauce and then serve.

Drink pairings-

White – Orvieto

Rose – Sancerre

Fizz – Prosecco

Beer – Heffe Weisse