Mussels Fra Diavola Recipes

MUSSELS IN SPICY RED SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and red pepper, and saute until fragrant, stirring, about 30 seconds. Add the white wine and tomato sauce, increase the heat to high, cover and bring to a boil.
• Add the mussels and replace the lid. Cook over high heat 3 minutes. Remove the lid and stir once gently. Continue to cook until the mussels are completely open and firmly cooked, about 4 minutes more.
• Remove the pot from the heat and transfer the mussels gently from the pot to a large bowl with a Chinese wire mesh skimmer. Return the pot to the heat and increase the heat to high. Boil for a minute or 2, until the sauce is thick enough to coat a spoon. Pour the sauce over the mussels and serve immediately.
• Place the canned tomatoes in a large bowl and place your (clean) hands in the bowl and crush the tomatoes so they breakup into a range of small pieces.
• In a 5-quart Dutch oven heat the olive oil over medium heat until it is fragrant, but before it smokes, about 40 seconds. Add the bay leaves and stir them in the oil until they begin to brown, about 10 seconds. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute until it starts to turn golden brown, then add the onions, carrots, and oregano. Cook the vegetables until they are very brown, about 15 to 20 minutes. Stir occasionally, just enough to prevent them from scorching.
• Add the crushed tomatoes with their juice, the tomato paste, salt and pepper, and 1 1/2 cups of water, (white wine or clam juice can be added depending on the intended use) and bring to a boil. Lower the heat, and simmer, partially covered until the sauce level has reduced by 2 or 3 inches and the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Cook the sauce for about 1 hour, stirring occasionally so it doesn't stick.
• Remove from heat, cool down in the pot, then when at room temperature, transfer to a sealed plastic container and refrigerate until ready to use.
• This sauce will keep 10 days in a well-sealed container in the refrigerator.
• Using my recipe for basic Red Sauce, you can make a quick and spicy "fra diavolo" sauce that is delicious drizzled over grilled squid and other seafood. For equipment you will need a 3-quart saucepan and a wooden spoon.
• Heat the olive oil in a 3-quart saucepan slightly over medium heat and saute the garlic and crushed red pepper until the garlic is fragrant and beginning to brown, about 40 seconds.
• Add the Red Sauce, clam juice, and salt, to taste, and simmer, stirring occasionally over medium-low heat, until the sauce returns to the thickness and quantity of the Red Sauce, about 15 minutes.

FRA DIAVOLO SAUCE WITH LINGUINE

Steps:

• Heat crushed garlic and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat until garlic starts to sizzle. Stir in tomatoes, red pepper flakes, oregano, basil, and salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook linguine at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite, about 11 minutes; drain.
• Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over high heat. Stir in shrimp and scallops. Cook, stirring frequently, until shrimp turn pink, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Stir shrimp, scallops, mussels, and parsley into tomato mixture. Cook until sauce begins to bubble and mussels open, about 7 minutes. Pour sauce over linguine and serve.

MUSSELS FRA DIAVOLA

Steps:

• heat oil in a 12 inch skillet.
• add garlic and red pepper flakes, stir.
• add tomatoes, paste, oregano, basil, capers, olives, and wine, breaking up tomatoes simmer about 15 minutes until sauce thickens.
• meanwhile cook the linguine and drain.
• raise the heat of the sauce to medium, add the mussels, and cover.
• cook 3-6 minutes more until mussels open.
• discard any that don't open.
• serve sauce over linguine.

MUSSELS FRA DIAVOLO

Steps:

• Cook linguine pasta in a large pot of rapidly boiling salted water until al dente, according to package directions.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, add pure olive oil, then add cloves of garlic.
• Once the cloves of garlic begin to shimmy in the pan, add the mussels and sauté for 3-4 minutes, tossing occasionally.
• Add one third jar of Rao's Homemade® Arrabbiata Sauce and bring to a simmering boil.
• Cover, reduce flame to a low simmer and cook until all mussels open. Discard any unopened mussels.
• Drain pasta and return to pot over medium heat - immediately add 2 6oz. ladles of Rao's Homemade® Arrabbiata Sauce and toss until pasta is coated.
• Plate coated pasta in a large serving bowl - top with remaining sauce and mussels - garnish with chopped parsley and serve hot.

MUSSELS ALLA DIAVOLA

Steps:

• Cook garlic and red pepper flakes in oil in a deep 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until fragrant but not browned, about 2 minutes. Add tomatoes with purée, tomato paste, herbs, capers, olives, and wine and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally and breaking up tomatoes, until sauce is thick, about 15 minutes.
• Cook linguine in a 6- to 8-quart pot of boiling salted water until al dente, then drain in a colander.
• While pasta cooks, increase heat under sauce to moderately high and add mussels, then cook, covered, until mussels just open wide, checking frequently after 3 minutes and transferring to a bowl. (Discard any mussels that remain unopened after 6 minutes.)
• Serve linguine with mussels and sauce.

MUSSELS FRA DIAVOLO

Steps:

• Scrub the mussels under running cold water making sure they are closed tight and remove the beards.
• In a large pot over high heat bring to a boil about 1" of water.
• Reduce the heat to low and add the mussels-cover and cook until the shells open about 5 minutes.
• Discard any that do not open.
• Discard the top shell from each mussel; rinse the mussel in the broth left in the pot to remove any left over s and.
• Let broth stand awhile to let the sand settle in the bottom of the pot. Pour 3/4 cup of the broth into a measuring cup and discard any remaining broth being careful not to pour any sand into the cup.
• In a large skillet over med.
• heat, heat the oil and Saute onions, green pepper and garlic until tender but not brown.
• Prepare the pasta as directed on the package. Cut the fish into 1" chunks.
• Into the onion mixture, add toma toes with the liquid from the can, all remaining ingredients, except mussels- the fish and mussel broth.
• (If you are adding more seafood add it now). Turn the heat to high and bring to a boil-when this comes to a boil, reduce heat to low-cover and simmer 5-7 minutes or until fish is cooked through.
• Add the mussels on the half shell and heated through.
• To serve, put the pasta onto plates or a large platter, spoon the fish/mussel mixture over and top with fresh grated Parmesan cheese.