Mussels in Butter and Tomato Sauce:
1 pkg frozen mussels
tomato sauce (canned, unflavored)
1 leek
1 small white onion
1 tomato
brocolli
2 tbs butter
1 garlic clove
olive oil
black pepper
white cooking wine (optional)
Most packages of frozen mussels are pre-cooked so you should really only need to focus on cooking the sauce. First, slice all the veggies into small pieces. You should pre-boil the broccoli because it will probably not completely cook in the sauce mixture. Place the broccoli in boiling water for 5-8 minutes until semi-soft and then drain the water.
After all of the vegetables are prepared, add some olive oil to a large sauce pan. Add the onion, garlic, leek, and tomato. Cook for approximately 8 minutes at a medium temperature. Add the broccoli and cook for about 5 more minutes, chopping the broccoli/tomato into smaller pieces as the sauce cooks. Add the butter and cooking wine (to taste). Open the package of mussels and add them to the sauce. Stir and cook for about 5 minutes, and add some tomato sauce. Add black pepper to taste and cook for about another 10 minutes before serving.
The amount of sauce does not matter, if you do make a lot of sauce, the recipe will turn out more like a soup, which is good, especially for the winter. We like to have a little bit of extra sauce to eat with some bread on the side.
This is a relatively easy and tasty recipe. It is important to remember when eating mussels that if the mussels do not open when you are cooking, do not eat them (the mussel could be diseased). Better to be safe than sorry! Also, mussels are a salty food, so adding extra salt is not necessary (we made this mistake the first time).
Here are some photos. Enjoy!
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