Pasta with seafood recipe
Preparation time: 10 min
Baking time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients (for 4)
Pesto ingredients
Preparation instructions
Recipe box – Pasta
Pasta with seafood, pesto and gherkin salt
Here we would like to share with you a simple and quick, but very nutritious pasta recipe. We tried it out with Margit and the students from the cooking school a few days ago and the result was super!
Although a variety of exciting seafood would have sufficed on its own, we wanted to give the pasta a little something extra and started cooking with homemade pesto. It doesn’t take much time, and the ingredients aren’t too expensive either – the main ones being sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts, basil, parmesan and olive oil. The crunchy and strongly flavoured pesto binds the whole pasta together and brings out the delicate flavours of the seafood.
After the pesto is ready, you can also bring the pasta to the boil. Feel free to use your favourite pasta. The seafood was sourced from M.V.Wool’s fishmonger Mati Kalapood. For the pasta, we first chose a fillet with a clear head, which we have used many times in the past to prepare various dishes. This is a really deliciously delicate white fish. We also used peeled shrimps and blue mussels.
We recommend that you make the pasta exactly as described in the recipe and instructions. This way, the pasta and its sauce will have exactly the right consistency and taste. To emphasise the saltiness of the seafood, we also added various salt flakes from the Estonian company Salt’s Up.
We preserved and decorated the pasta using Salt’s Up’s other gourmet salt, the special smoking salt Pöök. It’s a sea salt that is gradually smoked over an open fire fuelled by beechwood. You can also add a flavouring to the parsnip to add colour.
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