Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mussels marinara. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Mussels Marinara is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mussels Marinara is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mussels marinara using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mussels Marinara:
- Get 1/2 tablespoon salt and water to cook the pasta
- Make ready 8 ounces linguine- cook by the package directions
- Make ready 1/2 of an onion – finely diced
- Make ready 1/2 each jalapeno – finely diced (with seeds makes spicier -Your choice:)
- Take 3-4 cloves garlic – finely chopped
- Get 4 each mushrooms sliced
- Make ready 1/2 pint grape tomatoes- quartered- or a cup of diced tomatoes
- Prepare 1 ounce olive oil
- Get 1/4 teaspoon dry,thyme
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon dry,oregano
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoon sugar (If you like a slightly sweeter sauce adjust at the end:)
- Get 1 cup clam juice
- Get 1-1 1/2 pounds mussels cleaned - no dead ones
- Take 2 cups tomato sauce
- Make ready 1 ounce basil - fine chiffonade/ribbon cut
- Prepare as needed Parmesan
This mussels marinara recipe is a simple, yet elegant, pasta dinner. Serve with garlic bread and a green salad. Mussels are done when the shells open up (discard any that remain shut). If using frozen mussels, cook until completely heated through.
Steps to make Mussels Marinara:
- Clean mussels- they should be closed, and if anything is hanging off pull and cut seaweed or beard. If open tap on counter three or four times to see if it closes. If it stays open throw it away. Dead shellfish will make you very sick.
- Place a 4 quart pot on and fill with 2 quarts of water and bring to a boil add a 1/2 tablespoon of salt
- In a 4 quart pot, cook off pasta and set aside
- Add the thyme,oregano, pepper, salt, sugar and clam juice and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add mussels and tomato sauce Cover and cook until mussels have opened about 10 minutes. Discard any mussels that have not opened after that. Toss in basil and adjust seasonings if needed.
- Mix the mussels and sauce with pasta and serve Parmesan on top as you like.
- Note -I like adding peeled shrimp and scallops to make a Seafood Marinara I add them at the same time as I add the mussels. The scallops should be firm and the shrimp pink.
Serve over linguine with crusty bread to sop up the juice. See more ideas about Mussels marinara, Mussels, Marinara. This version of Mussels Marinara was fresh and flavorful and only took a few minutes to make. The mussels used in mussels marinara should be as fresh as possible; ideally, they should be purchased within seven days of their harvest date, which is usually printed on the packaging. Mussels Marinara is a quick & easy recipe to make at home.
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