Healthy Dinner Recipe: Pasta with Clams

Ingredients

• Avocado oil
• Elephant ear garlic 1 large and 1 small head, chopped
• 1 small, mild red pepper, chopped
• Chinese Eggplants – 1-2 young ones
• Fresh Thyme – 3 sprigs
• Fresh Purple basal – 3 or 4 sprigs (1 or 2 in water with pasta)
• Lemon grass 2 – pieces
• Sage bud
• Pinch lavender
• Pinch rosemary
• Salt
• Pepper
• Red pepper flakes
• Chives
• 20 to 24 clams (you can substitute chicken breasts or fish)
• Clam Juice or Chicken Stock or Vegetable Stock, ¼ to ½ cup
• Pea pasta from CardioMender, MD
• 1-2 lemons
• Vegetable of your choice to steam