Black pasta with seafood
Description
Black color is characteristic of many well-known dishes: sauce, pasta, paella, or risotto. This color comes from cuttlefish ink, which began to be used in Mediterranean and Adriatic cuisine not so long ago. The ink can be purchased pre-packaged and added during cooking, for example, to pasta dough, or you can buy ready-made black-colored pasta. This ingredient gives the pasta a slight salty, shrimp-like flavor, so it is usually paired with fish or seafood such as squid, mussels, shrimp, octopus, and scallops.
Instructions
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Step 1
Clean the fresh mussels and thoroughly rinse them under cold running water.
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Step 2
Place the mussels in a container with cold water, a small amount of salt, and leave covered for half an hour so that the shells open. Remove any spoiled mussels.
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Step 3
Rinse the mussels once again. They are ready for cooking.
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Step 4
In a skillet, heat the olive oil and lightly sauté the finely chopped garlic and chili pepper with chopped parsley until fragrant.
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Step 5
Add the mussels, pour in the white wine, and cook over medium heat until the wine has almost completely evaporated.
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Step 6
Cook the squid ink spaghetti in salted water until al dente, then drain.
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Step 7
Place the spaghetti in the pan with the mussel sauce.
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Step 8
Mix the spaghetti with the mussels and heat everything together over low heat for 1-2 minutes.
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Step 9
Serve black spaghetti with mussels in white wine, sprinkled with finely chopped parsley.