Three Ingredient Red Wine Sauce
My wife is not fond of mussels. If I want mussels it means cooking them on my own. Normally I just steam up the mussels and have at it. I was out at a local restaurant having mussels when I realized that I needed to add a bit of pizzaz to my mussel eating experience. What I needed was a simple red wine sauce for my mussels. By simple I mean really simple, something a bachelor could do with the ingredients he’d have on hand. It need to have next to zero prep time.
At first I looked on the internet to see what recipes I could find. There were a bunch of recipes but they all involved lots of prep and lots of ingredients. What I’ve come up with a three ingredient red wine sauce recipe that’s ready in 15 mins.
Mussels in Red Wine Sauce
Prep time – none, if you don’t count the shopping.
Cooking time – 15 min
Serving Size – enough for one pound of mussels
Simple Red Wine Sauce Ingredients
- 200 ml (one full wine glass) of dry red wine
- 125 ml (half a small bottle) of Kraft Sun Dried Tomato Oregano Dressing
- 200 ml (half a tin) of stewed tomatoes
Simmering Red Wine Sauce
Equipment Required to cook red wine sauce
- large sauce pan
- big wooden spoon
- measuring cup
- wine glass (required to hold additional wine
Simple Red Wine Sauce Cooking Directions
- pour the red wine into the sauce pan and bring to a boil
- add dressing and stewed tomatoes
- turn down heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes
- stir occasionally
How to Cook Mussels
Steamed Mussels
The key for cooking mussels is to steam them not boil them.
- place one inch of water in a large pot
- bring the water to boil, can take 10 minutes depending on size of pot
- add mussels to pot when the water is boiling vigorously
- It will only take a few minutes to steam the mussels
- the mussels are ready when they have opened wide
- do not over cook the mussels as they get rubbery
Do not eat any mussel that remains closed.
