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.