Mussels Marinara 

Mussels marinara style with cherry tomatoes and white wine...

A classic of Italian cuisine, simple, cheap and very tasty, suitable to be both an appetizer and a main course and perfect when you want to make a good impression without committing too much. You can prepare mussels marinara with or without cherry tomatoes, but you can't help but add garlic, parsley and white wine, for the rest the dish is really simple and can be prepared in a moment, as long as you have cleaned and purged mussels. If you have never cleaned black mussels, don't worry, with some precautions, by reading the recipe, you will find out how to do it perfectly and without stress! But are you ready to follow me? Let's go to the kitchen then!

Ingredients

2 kg mussels

extra virgin olive oil

parsley

1 clove garlic

150 g cherry tomatoes

chili pepper

80 g white wine

Preparation

Leave the mussels for an hour in lightly salted water, after the time has elapsed rinse them, remove the byssus, i.e. those filaments that keep them attached to each other. Rub the mussels with salt, better coarse if you have it and remove all the encrustations, alternatively use an abrasive scouring pad. Rinse again under running water and leave to soak for another fifteen minutes in plain water, they will remove the excess salt. Sauté the garlic and parsley in a large pan, add the washed and halved cherry tomatoes and a little chilli, let them wilt and add the mussels, turn up the heat and deglaze with the white wine. Let it cook for about 7 minutes with the lid on, without adding salt, because it is not needed and stirring halfway through cooking. As soon as the mussels are opened, turn off the heat and bring to the table still hot, sprinkle with a little parsley.