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

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.