Ingredients for Pasta with Mussels

The Recipe for Pasta with Mussels and Chickpea

This dish is good for a nice family dinner or supper. Pasta with seafood is a Mediterranean diet dish that is always popular. The recipe includes chickpea, on the Italian – cecci, a Turkey kind of pea which you will have to boil before you start making the dish.

Ingredients for Pasta with Mussels

    • 2.2 lb mussels in shells
    • 0.7 lb pasta laganelle or other
    • 0.4 lb chickpea
    • 5-6 tablespoons grated tomatoes
    • 1-2cm fresh ginger
    • half a glass white dry wine
    • parsley, olive oil, salt, pepper
Ingredients for Pasta with Mussels

Ingredients for Pasta with Mussels

Recipe for Pasta with Mussels

    1. Pour some olive oil onto a frying pan and fry finely chopped garlic and ginger.
fry finely chopped garlic and ginger

fry finely chopped garlic and ginger

    1. Pour in wine, add tomatoes and chickpeas with parsley.
add wine, tomatoes and chickpeas with parsley

add wine, tomatoes and chickpeas with parsley

    1. In about 5 minutes put in shelled mussels, salt, pepper and turn off the heat in another 3 minutes.
put in shelled mussels, salt, pepper

put in shelled mussels, salt, pepper

    1. Boil the paste till al’dente, drain through a colander and put into the hot sauce.
Pasta with Mussels and Chickpea

Pasta with Mussels and Chickpea