My dad LOVES mussels, and with Easter around the corner I thought it was a perfect excuse to get back in to the kitchen and cooking for this amazingly supportive community.
Cooking your mussels in your Thermo cooker is not only really quick, but they turn out plumper and less rubbery according to my family (I’ll take their word on this one…) – This has a great kick to it, but you can always reduce the chilli content for a more mild version. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I did developing it after a little recovery break.
Love Nik xx
Ingredients
- 1 medium brown onion - peeled, quartered
- 3 cloves of garlic - peeled
- 3 fresh long red chillies - roughly chopped (you can deseed them and reduce the amount for mild)
- 30 g olive oil
- 400 g tin of diced tomato - I recommend Ardmona
- 30 g tomato paste
- 1 tbsp stock concentrate
- 100 g water
- 1 kg fresh mussels - debearded
to serve
- handful of fresh continental parsley - roughly chopped
- 2 tsp capers - optional
Instructions
- Add onion, garlic and chilli to mixer bowl. Chop for 3-5 sec/speed 5/MC on. Scrape bowl down.
- Add remaining ingredients, except for the mussels and serving ingredients. Cook for 10 min/steaming temp/speed 1/MC off.Put the deep steaming tray in place to avoid splatter in your kitchen.
- Put the mussels into the deep steaming tray and cook for a further 7 min/steaming temp/speed 2 or until mussels are opened and cooked.
- Stir through the sauce and mussels into a serving bowl, top with parsley and capers and enjoy!
Notes
You can swap out the mussels for firm fish, prawns or crab as well for an alternative seafood 🙂
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Nutrition
Serving: 285g | Calories: 373kcal | Carbohydrates: 27.2g | Protein: 33.5g | Fat: 12.7g | Saturated Fat: 2.9g | Sodium: 1290mg | Sugar: 8.2g
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