Italian Stewed Mussels

Name: Italian Stewed Mussels
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1 16 oz. package frozen cooked mussels; 2 cups marinara sauce; 1/2 cup wine (red or white); 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (or 1 teaspoon ground black pepper); 1/2 lemon (juiced)

This Italian Stewed Mussels recipe is a regional dish from Puglia, Italy. Where it is known as Zuppa di Cozze. My grandmother immigrated from a little town in Puglia called San Paolo di Civitate. She arrived here in the early 1900’s. I found the recipe in a book called “Puglia A Culinary Memoir”.

To make it quicker and easier for you (and me) our recipe here calls for using the cleaned and precooked mussels from the frozen seafood section in the grocery store.

And, instead of putting all of the ingredients for the sauce in the skillet let’s use some already made Marinara sauce from your pantry or freezer. Like we do when we make bolognese sauce. Or, some of the ready made sauce from the grocery store. If you opt for the sauce from the store we recommend Buitoni.

Okay, let’s make this quick and easy version of Italian Stewed Mussels

Put a skillet on at medium high. Don’t thaw out the mussels. Just dump them in the skillet along with the frozen liquid from the bag. Add the marinara sauce, the lemon juice, red pepper flakes and the wine. Stir everything together.

Let the liquids come up to a fast simmer. Then lower the heat to just maintain the simmer. Stir it a few times as it all warms up. About 10 minutes.

I multi tasked and cooked up the pasta and threw together some caprese salad while the mussels were doing their thing.

Serve it up and enjoy. your Italian Stewed Mussels. It is real quick, easy and very good.

You might like this other easy mussels recipe.

and this one https://www.poppopcooks.com/mussels-in-tomato-sauce/