Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a awesome dish, mussels marinara. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mussels Marinara is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mussels Marinara is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mussels marinara using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
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
- Prepare 1/2 of an onion – finely diced
- Prepare 1/2 each jalapeno – finely diced (with seeds makes spicier -Your choice:)
- Prepare 3-4 cloves garlic – finely chopped
- Get 4 each mushrooms sliced
- Get 1/2 pint grape tomatoes- quartered- or a cup of diced tomatoes
- Prepare 1 ounce olive oil
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon dry,thyme
- Get 1/4 teaspoon dry,oregano
- Take 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoon sugar (If you like a slightly sweeter sauce adjust at the end:)
- Prepare 1 cup clam juice
- Make ready 1-1 1/2 pounds mussels cleaned - no dead ones
- Make ready 2 cups tomato sauce
- Get 1 ounce basil - fine chiffonade/ribbon cut
- Get as needed Parmesan
Instructions 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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