Please select your country
Help us show relevant products and prices based on your location
Bahrain
Kuwait
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Pasta with Mussels, Tomato and Olives
This pasta dish is packed with tomatoes, olives and mussels – simple, fresh Mediterranean flavours on a plate. Perfect.
Ingredients
Preparing Pasta
-
Mezzanelli or Spaghetti 500.0 g
Preparing Tomato Sauce
-
Olive Oil 30.0 g
-
Shallot, finely chopped 80.0 g
-
Garlic Bulb 1.0 pc
-
Celery (small cubes) 200.0 g
-
Carrot (small cubes) 200.0 g
-
White Wine 100.0 ml
-
Lemon 1.0 pc
-
Salted Capers (rinse the capers in cold water)
-
Taggiasche Olives (small black olives)
Plating
-
Mussels (cleaned) 1.0 kg
-
Parmesan Cheese
-
Flat Parsley
Preparation
-
Preparing Pasta
- Boil the pasta el dente in water with salt until 3/4th of the cooking time.
- Mix with some olive oil and let it cool down on a tray.
-
Preparing Tomato Sauce
- Roast the garlic in the oven on 150 degrees Celsius until the garlic is puffed and soft.
- Clean the roasted garlic, chop and keep aside.
- Fry the onion, celery and carrot in olive oil.
- Add the white wine and allow the alcohol boil out.
- Add 1 table spoon of the chopped garlic.
- Add the tomato pronto and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Season the sauce with salt and black pepper.
- Bring the mussels into the sauce and boil until they are opening.
- Squeeze some lime juice.
- Mix with the pasta and serve.
-
Plating
- Spoon the pasta and mussels in deep plate.
- Decorate with the olives and capers.
- Finish with parsley and grated parmesan cheese.
