The easiest mussels recipe that flawlessly cooks your seafood in slow simmering seasoned sauce that\'s appetizingly hot and spicy.
Preparation:
15mins
Cooking:
2hrs40mins
Total:
2hrs55mins
Serves:
3
Ingredients
1¼lbmusselsdebearded, cleaned
1½tbspolive oil
2garlic clovesminced
4ozfresh mushroomsof your choice, diced, used white beech mushrooms
7¼oztomatoesdiced
1tbspdried oregano
½tbspdried basil
½tspground black pepper
1tsppaprika
¼tspred pepper flakes
¾cupdry white wine
2cupswateror seafood broth
1cupmarinara sauce
saltto taste
To Serve:
parsleychopped
crusty bread
Instructions
Heat the olive oil in the saucepan.
Cook the garlic and the mushrooms for about 3 minutes or until the garlic has turned golden brown.
Add the water or seafood broth and marinara sauce. Simmer briefly for about 10 minutes.
Transfer all its contents into a crockpot.
Add all the remaining ingredients into the crockpot, except for the mussels.
Cook on High for about 2 hours.
Add the mussels to the crockpot and cook on High heat for about 15 to 20 minutes until the mussels open.
Season to taste with salt.
Give the mussel pot a stir and remove the mussels that didn’t open up in the crock pot if there are any. Garnish with parsley and serve together with crusty bread.
Recipe Notes
You’ll know that the mussel is already cooked if it has its shell open. Remember to discard the mussels that did not open because this means that they were not alive before going into the pot and should not be eaten.