Hi guys welcome to the new episode of Fish Tales
and today I am at the wadden sea this amazingly beautiful piece of the
Netherlands where the tides are extremely high
and extremely low and this is of course low tides
and I'm going to make you a Pasta cockles
and it's the same as pasta vongole but not made with vongole but with cockles
because Robert and Sean over there are catching the most beautiful cockles
well maybe of the world
so guys this is Robert and Robert is
is catching cockles, how many kilos did you catch today
or today you just started right. 2000 kilos or something
2000 kilos? Yeah. And you're busy for
for maybe two hours. Two hours so two hours
2000 kilos of cockles. Can I take some cockles to make a pasta?
yeah no problem
So first I'm going to cook the pasta, which will take approximately
10 minutes, this is seawater so at home you use
water with some added salt. For the cockles
I use some shallots, I use just a bit of garlic
I use some parsley stalks and we use one
chilli to give a bit extra power to the dish
so maybe I've used half chilli because
I don't want to have it really spicy because I still want to taste the cockles and
I want to taste the saltiness
make sure that your dish stays a bit elegant
so all the flavors are balanced together. Check on the pasta
So we will cook it just under al dente
because we will save it when we go to cook the cockles
because I've only one stove so in the same time the pasta will be
really well. Use a bit of garlic. So these guys, Robert, Sean there
this is their boat, this is the Harling number 9
and they go out every Sunday night
they stay for 4 - 5 days here the same spot
sometimes they move two miles further. There are two low tides
in 24 hours and two high tides. They're catching cockles like
for four hours five hours then they sleep and they come back to cockle
again and they
go home like Thursday, Friday morning. I take-off almost all
the water not everything because then the pasta will dry out. In this way I keep
the pasta warm
and guys this is the cockle salsa. The quickly moving backwards and
forwards
Robert is raking the cockles this is the only method allowed for fishing cockles
in the wadden sea
a great sustainable way for catching these awesome shell fish
step number one olive oil
Shallot, half chilli, garlic
some parsley stalks 2 tablespoons of white wine
let it simmer now we add the cockles
and cover with a lid when the cockles are open
your dish is ready. In the meantime I'm going to
chop some parsley leaves which will finish off the dish
at the end. Every now and then you
hustle your cockles. It's also possible with a spoon
So you divide the warmth so all your cockles will be open
more less at the same time, so now I add the pasta
Okay so sling your pasta, look at this
Pasta cockles, linguine with cockles
add some parsley and some pepper
Robert
taste your own cockles
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