This recipe is so simple and good it will make you want to slap your mama! Be sure to have lots of pasta or french bread on hand to soak up the extra sauce. You’ll be sorry if you don’t!
Ingredients:
1 bag live mussels
3 cloves elephant garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large can (approx. 4 cups) tomato purée
1.5 cup white wine
1/2 teaspoon salt (more or less, to taste)
2 tablespoons red pepper flakes (one for milder flavor– this dish is spicy!)
Instructions:
Heat olive oil in large stock pot with heavy bottom. Peel garlic and finely chop or run through garlic press. Sauté garlic until slightly browned, about 2 minutes. Add tomato purée, white wine, salt and red pepper flakes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring a few times. Now would be a good time to prepare your pasta or toast your bread.
Remove lid from pot and increase heat to medium-high. When liquid returns to a boil, add mussels. Cover with lid and steam for about 5-6 minutes. When all of the mussel shells are open, remove them from the sauce with a slotted spoon and set aside. Continue to cook sauce on high heat, stirring frequently, until reduced almost in half. Spoon sauce over mussels (and pasta). Top with grated parmesan cheese. Enjoy!
Serves 4 with pasta, 2 without pasta.
Tags: mussels recipe, spicy tomato sauce for seafood, steamed mussels, Steamed Mussels in Spicy Garlic Tomato Sauce
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