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Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato and Basil Sauce

Courtesy of chef Scott Conant



One of Scott Conant’s signature dishes.


Spaghetti Sauce with Fresh Tomato and Basil Sauce

Photo Credit: Christopher Villano

Yield

Serves 4 to 6


Ingredients

- 2.5 pounds ripe plum tomatoes (about 20)

- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

- Pinch red pepper flakes

- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper

- 1 pound spaghetti, preferably alla chitarra or another artisanal cut

- 6 large basil leaves

- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter

- 2 tablespoon freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, plus additional for serving, if desired


Directions

1) Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Have a large bowl of ice water ready near the stove. Cut a small “X” in the bottom of each tomato. Ease 5 of the tomatoes into the boiling water; scoop them out and transfer them to the ice water after 15 seconds. Repeat this with the rest of the tomatoes. Starting with the X, peel the skin off each tomato and cut away the core. Cut each tomato in half lengthwise and use your fingers to flick out the seeds.

2) Heat 5 tablespoons of the oil in a wide saucepan. Add the tomatoes and red pepper flakes and season with salt and pepper. Once the tomatoes have started to soften, after about 10 minutes, mash them with a potato masher. If you don’t have a potato masher, you’d be surprised how well pounding them with the bottom of a sturdy coffee mug works. Cook the tomatoes another 15 to 20 minutes, until they’re tender and the sauce has thickened. Set them aside.

3) Bring 4 to 5 quarts of well-salted water to a boil in a large pot and add the spaghetti. While the spaghetti cooks, stack the basil leaves, roll them up tightly and use a sharp knife to slice and roll into fine shreds, making a chiffonade. Set the basil aside. Gently reheat the sauce and check the seasonings.

4) Cook the spaghetti until al dente, 7 to 8 minutes, then drain, reserving about a half-cup of the cooking water. Add the pasta and the remaining oil to the sauce and toss gently with a couple of wooden spoons so you don’t break the pasta, using a generous motion, until the pasta is well-coated. If necessary, moisten the spaghetti with some of the reserved cooking water. Add the butter, grated cheese, and basil chiffonade, toss again, and serve at once.

 


 


Stracci with Seafood

Courtesy of chef Scott Conant



Stracci pasta (translated to rag) are cooked in clam juice and leek sauce which is made from leeks, shallots, chicken stock and extra virgin olive oil. Sliced garlic and scallion are sweated then deglazed with the shellfish stock. Leek sauce is then added. The dish is finished with a mixture of seafood, little neck clams, razor clams, mussels, rock shrimp. It is then finished with a chiffonade of parsley. Once plated, the dish is topped with a bottarga breadcrumb mixture (bottarga is dried fish roe from either tuna or mullet, we use mullet bottarga).


Yield

Serves 2


Ingredients

- 19 pieces of Stracci 

- 2 oz. shellfish liquid

- 2 oz. leek sauce

- 5 shucked clams

- 5 shucked mussels

- 1 tablespoon razor clam diamonds

- 8 marinated rock shrimp

- 2 tablespoon leeks, diced and cooked

- 1 teaspoon shaved garlic

- 1 tablespoon sliced scallions (on the bias)

- 1 tablespoon parsley (chiffonade)

- 2 tablespoon botarga breadcrumbs

- 1 tablespoon tomato dice

Leek Sauce

- 2 quarts leeks

- 6 cloves garlic

- 1 quart zucchini bodies (no skin)

- 1.5 quart vegetable stock

- 1 - 1.5 cups extra virgin olive oil

- Thyme, to taste

- Peperoncino, to taste

- Salt, to taste


Directions

Leek Sauce

1) Sweat leeks and garlic, no color.

2) Season with salt, peperocino and thyme.

3) Add zucchini bodies, sweat.

4) Deglaze with vegetable stock, bring to boil.

5) Simmer until fully cooked, 30 minutes.

6) Strain and puree adding the liquid back in to adjust consistency.

7) Blend in extra virgin olive oil and adjust seasoning.


Seafood + Stracci

1) Heat saute pan, add 2 tablespoon olive oil.

2) Add garlic and sweat, no color, add scallions, add leeks.

3) Cook pasta in boiling, salted water.

4) As the pasta is cooking, deglaze pan with shellfish stock.

5) Add leek sauce.

6) Cook pasta 3/4 of the way in the pasta cooker, then finish in the pan with the stock and sauce.

7) Adjust consistency with pasta water.

8) Add the shellfish, finish with parsley and tomatoes.

9) Plate the pasta in the center of a large round coupe plate.

10) Sprinkle 2 tablespoon of bottarga breadcrumbs.

 
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SCARPETTA - NEW YORK

Chelsea

Italian

55 West 14th Street

New York, NY 10014

T: 212.691.0555 (make a reservation)

Website:

www.scottconant.com

Hours:

Sun - Thu: 5:30pm -11pm

Fri - Sat: 5:30pm - 12am


SCARPETTA - MIAMI

South Beach

Italian

Fontainebleau Miami Beach

4441 Collins Avenue

Miami Beach, FL  33140

T: 305.674.4660 (make a reservation)

Website:

www.scottconant.com

Hours:

Sun - Thu: 6pm - 11pm

Fri - Sat: 6pm - 12am


SCARPETTA - LAS VEGAS

The Strip

Italian

Cosmopolitan Resort

3708 Las Vegas Bouldevard South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

T: 702.698.7960 (make a reservation)

Website:

www.scottconant.com

Hours:

Sun - Thu: 5:30pm - 11pm

Fri - Sat: 5:30pm - 12am


SCARPETTA - LOS ANGELES

Beverly Hills

Italian

Montage Beverly Hills

225 North Cannon Drive

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

T: 310.860.7970 (make a reservation)

Website:

www.scottconant.com

Hours:

Daily: 11:30am - 3pm

Sun - Thu: 5:30pm - 11pm

Fri - Sat: 5:30pm - 12am


SCARPETTA - TORONTO

Midtown / Uptown

Italian

Thompson Hotel Toronto

550 Wellington Street West

Toronto, ON  M5V 2V4

T: 416.601.3590 (make a reservation)

Website:

www.scottconant.com


D.O.C.G. ENOTECA - LAS VEGAS

The Strip

Italian / Wine Bar / Coffee Bar

Cosmopolitan Resort

3708 Las Vegas Boulevard South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

T: 702.698.7920 (make a reservation)

Website:

www.scottconant.com

Hours:

Sun - Thu: 11:30am - 11pm

Fri -  Sat: 11:30am - 12am

 

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WHO

Executive chef and owner of Scarpetta and D.O.C.G. Enoteca.

WHY

James Beard award-winning chef Conant creates accessible Italian dishes using Old World cooking and adding his own unique modern twists.

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