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Duo of cuttlefish ink spaghetti with mussels, Basil Pesto PDO sauce and crumbled tarallo on a nest of pumpkin flowers

Total time required
20 mins preparation
Difficulty
Average

Ingredients | Serves 1

  • 35 g
    Spaghetti di Gragnano (Spaghetti from Gragnano)
  • 45 g
    Cuttlefish ink spaghetti
  • 200 g
    Shelled Mussels
  • 10 g
    Extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 g
    White wine
  • 2 g
    Garlic
  • 2 g
    Parsley
  • 25 g
    ROBO Genoese Basil Pesto PDO
  • 15 g
    Taralli (Italian savoury biscuits)
  • a.r.
    Salt
  • a.r.
    Pepper
  • 2
    Pumpkin Flowers

Preparation method

  1. To prepare the sauce: Wash and clean the mussels. In a frying pan, add oil, garlic and parsley and pour in the mussels. After two minutes, add white wine, cover with a lid and cook until the mussels are open. Shell the mussels, filtering out their cooking liquid which you will set aside.

    To prepare the pumpkin flowers: Wash and clean the pumpkin flowers by removing the central pistil. Keep half the flowers aside and blanch the other half in boiling salted water for 15 seconds, then blast chill in iced water. Dry the pumpkin flowers well, open them and lay them open on the plate. Cut the remaining part of the pumpkin flowers into julienne strips.

    To prepare the pasta: Cook the two types of spaghetti in boiling salted water (if the spaghetti do not have the same cooking time, cook them separately). Drain the spaghetti 2 minutes before the end of the cooking time, which will be finished by cooking it in the mussel water. Add the de-shelled mussels, the ROBO Genoese Basil Pesto PDO and the pumpkin flowers cut into julienne strips. Stir well, adding a drizzle of oil if necessary and seasoning with salt and pepper to taste.

    Serving suggestion: Arrange the spaghetti on top of the nest of pumpkin flowers. Top with crumbled taralli and salad greens as desired.

Prepared with ROBO products

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