Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mussels marinara. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mussels Marinara is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Mussels Marinara is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mussels marinara using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
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
- Make ready 1/2 each jalapeno – finely diced (with seeds makes spicier -Your choice:)
- Get 3-4 cloves garlic – finely chopped
- Take 4 each mushrooms sliced
- Get 1/2 pint grape tomatoes- quartered- or a cup of diced tomatoes
- Get 1 ounce olive oil
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon dry,thyme
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon dry,oregano
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoon sugar (If you like a slightly sweeter sauce adjust at the end:)
- Get 1 cup clam juice
- Prepare 1-1 1/2 pounds mussels cleaned - no dead ones
- Get 2 cups tomato sauce
- Prepare 1 ounce basil - fine chiffonade/ribbon cut
- Get as needed Parmesan
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.
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