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Spaghetti Pasta With Mussels, Fava Beens, and Pecorino Cheese

Name: Spaghetti Pasta With Mussels, Fava Beens, and Pecorino Cheese
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: ㅤ ㅤCook The Mussels; 3 tbsp. Extra virgin olive oil; 1 lb. Mussels; 1/4 tsp. Ground Black Pepper; ㅤ ㅤSauce; 5 oz. Fresh fava beans; 1½ tbsp. Chopped shallot; 2 oz. Chopped almonds; 1/4 tsp. Salt; 5 slices Mint; 2 tbsp. Cream; 6 oz. Spaghetti; 1 tsp. Salt; 1½ tsp. Extra virgin olive oil; 1½ oz. Pecorino

Chef Enrico Alaggia

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Spaghetti Pasta With Mussels, Fava Beens, and Pecorino Cheese

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This combination of flavors is sooo Italian for generations. this is my favorite let’s make it yours. If you haven’t tried fava beans before give them a try they will impress you with their sweet earthy flavor and super high in vitamin B with many other health benefits.

Recipe

PRE TIME: 10 min

COOKING TIME: 20 min

TOTAL TIME: 30 min

2 SERVING

Ingredients:

ㅤ ㅤCook The Mussels
3 tbsp. Extra virgin olive oil
1 lb. Mussels
1/4 tsp. Ground Black Pepper
ㅤ ㅤSauce
5 oz. Fresh fava beans
1½ tbsp. Chopped shallot
2 oz. Chopped almonds
1/4 tsp. Salt
5 slices Mint
2 tbsp. Cream
6 oz. Spaghetti
1 tsp. Salt
1½ tsp. Extra virgin olive oil
1½ oz. Pecorino

Directions:

Step 1

On the stove heat up a pot or pan and add a little bit of olive oil and add the mussels with all the shells and cook for 4 to 5 minutes. (If the mussels have both sides of the shells and fresh they should be closed before cooking them, once they're cooked they should be all opened. Discard the broken ones before cooking.)

Step 2

Season with salt and pepper. Remove the mussels from the pan and set aside. Leave the juices in the same pan.

Step 3

Peeled the fava beans and eliminate the outer skin of each bean.

Step 4

In the pan add fava beans, diced shallots, almonds, mint, and cream at the end.

Step 5

Bring to boil water in a pot on the stove with salt. Now drop the spaghetti pasta in the water.

Step 6

Remove the shells and set the mussels aside, leave 4 mussels with the shells for final plating presentation.

Step 7

After cooking the ingredients in the pan for 3 minutes, blend finely making a cream in a blender or immersion blender.

Step 8

If needed add some pasta water in the mixer with the ladle until you have a creamy consistency cream. Set aside.

Step 9

After the pasta has cooked for 6 to 7 minutes, grab all the pasta with food tongs and drop it in the pan.

Step 10

Add the cream in the pan with the pasta.

Step 11

Keep cooking the pasta from 3 to 6 more minutes to your preferred softness. While cooking keeps adding pasta water from the pot where you cooked the pasta to keep the good moisture in the pan where you are cooking the pasta. Finally, add pecorino, and mix well.

Step 12

Add the mussels and cook for 30 seconds more to 1 minute.

Step 13

Plate up adding a couple of fresh mint leaves, the whole mussels, and more pecorino. Enjoy!