Fettucine and Mussels in Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce

Name: Fettucine and Mussels in Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 lb fettucine, fresh or boxed; 2 lb mussels, live and in shell; 4 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin; 2 stick butter; 4 clove garlic, minced; 1 large lemon, zest and juice; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 medium handful basil, chopped; 1/2 cup pecorino Romano cheese; 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Sean @haffathot

Burlington, Massachusetts

Garlicky, cheesy, buttery fettucine and mussels. If you see a plate of this for dinner, it's going to be a good night.

Sean @haffathot

Burlington, Massachusetts

Garlicky, cheesy, buttery fettucine and mussels. If you see a plate of this for dinner, it's going to be a good night.

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Ingredients

45 mins

8 servings

2 lbfettucine, fresh or boxed
2 lbmussels, live and in shell
4 tbspolive oil, extra virgin
2 stickbutter
4 clovegarlic, minced
1 largelemon, zest and juice
1/4 tspsalt
1 mediumhandful basil, chopped
1/2 cuppecorino Romano cheese
1/2 tspground black pepper

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Steps

45 mins

1

Cook the fettuccine in boiling water, and a smidge of salt, until al dente. Rinse under cool water to stop the cooking process, and then set aside.
2

Rinse and then steam the mussels, in a steamer basket, until they open up. If they don't open, don't eat them. Run under cool water to stop the cooking process and clean out some grit, and then set aside.
3

Heat the oil on low, and then melt the butter a stick at a time. I know, this is so not health food.
4

Add the garlic, simmer for a moment, and then add the lemon juice and zest. Be careful, adding the lemon should toast up the garlic pretty quickly, so remove the pan from heat for a moment as needed to keep the garlic from burning. Toasted is good, burnt is bad.
5

Add the salt and basil, and simmer a minute or two.
6

Mix in the Romano and pepper, and add any extra salt to taste.
7

Add the fettucine to the sauce, and toss the fettucine in the sauce.
8

Add the mussels to the fettucine in sauce, and toss the mussels, fettucine, and sauce.
9

Serve warm, and enjoy.

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Sean @haffathot

on November 27, 2014 13:02

Burlington, Massachusetts

I am a Boston attorney raised on Sicilian and Calabrian cooking.I study new foods and cuisines all the time, and I've been cooking most of my life. I really try to stay away from using processed food as ingredients or forcing together clashing spices. I go for more savory than sweet.