Double tomato Mussel stew!
I so love tomatoes and anything made with it! What on earth can beat any salad containing tomatoes, especially in summer? In winter I love to make cheese and tomato sarmies, tomato soup, tomato stew with lamb and mussels with a double tomato sauce!
Serve this with any pasta of your choice or crusty homemade or bought bread and your family will lick their fingers!!
This is another meal that can be made in minutes!
For the first sauce:
15ml olive oil
1 onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1 x 410g tin tomatoes
30ml tomato paste
15ml capers
5 to 10ml minced chillies
15ml olives, pitted
15ml dill
salt and black pepper
Heat the olive oil and cook the onion and garlic over low heat for 4 minutes, until soft.
Add the tinned tomatoes, tomato paste, capers,chillies and olives and simmer for 15 minutes.
Add the dill and season with salt and black pepper and remove from the heat to cool down. Once cooled liquidize with a hand blender or fruit processor till smooth.
For the second sauce:
15m olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 x 410g tin tomatoes
60ml fish or chicken stock
1kg mussels in half shelves
salt and pepper
Heat the olive oil and cook the onion for 2 minutes until soft.
Add the tinned tomatoes and chicken stock and simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the first sauce mixture with the mussels.
Cook for 5 minutes and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Serve with pasta or bread!
My son is hanging over my shoulder and drooling profusely. He loves mussel soup!!! I love the fact that it can be ready in no time at all!!
My son is hanging over my shoulder drooling profusely. He loves mussel soup and I love that it can be ready in no time at all!
I also looooove mussel soup – one of my all time favourites!
yum! I love tomatoes too, any time and in any format 🙂
We seem to be doing things in sync, Tandy!!
Do you use frozen or fresh mussels – does it make a difference to the taste?
Dirk, ek gebruik bevrore mossels. Ek persoonlik hou glad nie van vars mossels nie. Dit moet weer en weer gewas word om al die sand te PROBEER uit kry en dan moet dit in vars water wees om dit minder sout te maak… nee!