Cooking Linguini & Clam Sauce

Series Summary

Pasta comes in all different shapes and sizes, and can be cooked in a variety of ways with a range of different sauces and dressings. Linguine is a versatile, flat, narrow pasta which originated in the Campania region of Italy, whose name means “little tongues”. Aglio E Olio refers to the sauce of garlic and oil that is tossed with a pasta to create a classic Italian dish. It is one of the most common dressings in Italian cooking and when mixed with pasta, linguine in this case, can be combined with any number of fresh, sauteed vegetables, meat, or seafood for a delicious Italian dinner. In this case we will be talking about clam sauce.

In this free video series, our chef will create a delicious Linguine and clam sauce. The easy recipe includes step-by-step instructions for chopping the garlic and oregano, sauteing the vegetables with garlic, herbs and olive oil, and combining the pasta with the vegetables. Follow our chefs delicious recipe and you'll end up with an easy, classic Italian dish that the whole family will love. Bon Appetit!

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Richard Buccola in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make some spaghetti with clam sauce. Alright we are here, we are going to do some spaghetti with clam sauce real fast, real inexpensive meal. This meal is so quick that you can actually be boiling the water for your spaghetti and be doing the clam sauce at the same time. When the clam sauce is the done the spaghetti is done, you put it together. Really quick 10 minutes prep time, 15 minutes at the dinner table. It is healthy, really good for you. Today we are going to substitute spaghetti with linguine. You can use angel hair pasta, you can use any kind of linguine you like, fettuccine is even good. I like this for the finish spaghetti and linguine and like I said it is really fast, inexpensive meal. Really tasty, really good for you and when I come back I'm going to show you all the ingredient and show you just how easy and fast this is to prepare. It is spaghetti and clam sauce, you are on Expert Village. "