This nutritious and high protein dish comes together pretty quickly. Once cooked, all you need to do is pull the mussel from the shell with a fork, drag some crusty bread through the sauce and enjoy. It’s a perfect meal for a weeknight dinner or date night in, with a glass of wine. With only a small number of ingredients you can really impress your loved ones.
Ingredients:
- 1kg bag of pre washed mussels
- 2 cans of diced or crushed tomatoes (total 800g)
- 1/2 brown onion
- 1 garlic clove
- 1-2 red chilli
- 1 tsp sugar
- Pepper
- Parsley
- Baguette or bread of choice for serving
Method:
- Dice the brown onion, finely chop the garlic and slice the red chilli
- Add olive oil to a medium heated pan with the brown onion, garlic and chilli and cook for 2-3 mins
- Add the canned tomatoes to the pan with the sugar and pepper
- After 5 minutes add the washed bag of mussels to the pan and toss lightly in the tomato sauce. Being careful not to break the shells
- Cover the mussels for 5 minutes on a high heat or until mussels have opened*
- Serve with parsley and a baguette
*discard mussels that haven’t opened more than 1cm
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