Steamed mussels in a garlic tomato wine sauce
original blog post: https://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2018/03/steamed-mussels-in-garlic-tomato-wine.html
Ingredients
1 lb frozen or fresh mussels on the half shell
4 tablespoon butter
1 cup finely chopped Onion
10 cloves Garlic shredded
½ cup chopped fresh Tomato
1 teaspoon Tomato paste
½ lime (juice)
1 teaspoon sugar (optional if a sweet white wine is used)
3 cups sweet white/ pink Moscato etc.
Salt to taste
Black pepper
Parsley finely chopped
Instructions
- Make sure the mussels are defrosted and the shells are clean
- Pat dry to remove excess moisture
- In a pan melt butter and on a medium low heat saute tomatoes, onion and 6 of the 10 shredded
- garlic cloves
- season with two pinches of salt, allow it to saute until the onion become translucent and the tomatoes are breaking down
- add 1 cup of wine and the lime juice, cook and allow it to reduce
- once reduced add another cup of wine, continually stirring allow it to reduce again
- add the final cup of wine allow it to reduce and become a rich slightly thick sauce,
- once it is at this stage, season with salt and sugar to taste, stir in the remaining shredded garlic
- add the mussels and parsley
- stir to coat in the sauce cover and allow it to steam for 4 to 5 minutes or until the mussels have heated through.
- Remove from the heat and serve immediately with crusty bread or over a bed of pasta.