Hello everybody, it is Griffin, welcome to our recipe website. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mussels marinara. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mussels Marinara is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mussels Marinara is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
The Bald Chef shows you how to make Italian Mussels Marinara Recipe. If you are a seafood lover and you love Mussels. Mussels marinara is a classic Italian dish that looks way fancier than the effort involved!
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mussels marinara using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mussels Marinara:
- Take 1/2 tablespoon salt and water to cook the pasta
- Make ready 8 ounces linguine- cook by the package directions
- Take 1/2 of an onion – finely diced
- Prepare 1/2 each jalapeno – finely diced (with seeds makes spicier -Your choice:)
- Take 3-4 cloves garlic – finely chopped
- Prepare 4 each mushrooms sliced
- Make ready 1/2 pint grape tomatoes- quartered- or a cup of diced tomatoes
- Prepare 1 ounce olive oil
- Take 1/4 teaspoon dry,thyme
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon dry,oregano
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoon sugar (If you like a slightly sweeter sauce adjust at the end:)
- Get 1 cup clam juice
- Make ready 1-1 1/2 pounds mussels cleaned - no dead ones
- Prepare 2 cups tomato sauce
- Get 1 ounce basil - fine chiffonade/ribbon cut
- Take as needed Parmesan
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. Add the mussels and cover with a lid. This mussels marinara recipe is a simple, yet elegant, pasta dinner. Serve with garlic bread and a green salad.
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.
Bring fine dining in-house with Bertolli's Mussels Marinara with linguine recipe. We combine fresh mussels with tomato and basil sauce, red wine, and roasted garlic. Mussels are done when the shells open up (discard any that remain shut). If using frozen mussels, cook until completely heated through. Serve over linguine with crusty bread to sop up the juice.
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