Every father leaves a legacy. Some fathers leave behind stamp collections, some leave behind vintage cars; some might even leave an old watch. In my family, fathers leave recipes. My great-grandfather was a fisherman, my grandfather was a baker and my father was a chef, but it was my brother, an interior designer, who perfected the recipe for our seafood pasta. I’s a dig-in-and-get-dirty kind of dish.
INGREDIENTS
Oven-roasted tomatoes
250 g cherry tomatoes
40 ml olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 sprig of rosemary
Seafood sauce
40 ml olive oil
50 g butter
1 finely chopped red onion
4 finely chopped garlic cloves
8 ripe tomatoes, grated
Salt and pepper
400 ml Napolitana sauce (page 106)
24 black tiger prawns, butterflied and cleaned
4 langoustines
12 mussels, cleaned
16 clams, cleaned
250 ml white wine
Large handful flat leaf parsley, chopped
500 g uncooked linguine
60 g butter to burn
Olive oil
METHOD
1. Pre-heat the oven to 200°C. Roast the cherry tomatoes on a baking tray, drizzled with the olive oil, seasoned with salt and pepper and sprinkled with rosemary. Roast until the tomato skins are wrinkled.
2. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large pan and sauté the onion until golden brown. Add the roasted tomatoes, discarding the rosemary, and squash them gently to release the juices. Add the garlic and cook for 2 – 3 minutes.
3. Stir in the freshly grated tomato and simmer for 5 minutes with the lid off. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Add the Napolitana sauce and bring to a boil. Carefully add the seafood, wine and half the chopped parsley. Make sure that the seafood is covered by the tomato sauce. Stir it gently and as little as possible or the seafood will disintegrate. Cover with a lid and cook on high heat for 5 minutes. Remove the lid, reduce the heat to medium and allow to simmer for another 20 minutes.
4. The sauce should not be too thick or too runny. You will know it is ready when the mussels and clams open up. Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente.
5. In a separate pan, burn 60 g of butter. The butter must melt at a high heat in the pan until it bubbles and turns golden. Drain the pasta, place it in a large bowl and pour the burnt butter over it. Then spoon the seafood sauce over the pasta. Garnish with the remaining parsley and a generous glug of olive oil.
Serves 4
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