Sailor-Style Baked Mussels
Mussels baked 'a la marinera' (sailor style) with a tomato-and-carrot sauce.
⏱️ Prep: 20 min🍳 Cook: 35 min
Ingredients
| 3 kg | Mussels (in the shell) | |
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | Oil |
| 1 head | Onion | |
| 8 pcs | Tomatoes | |
| 4-5 pcs | Carrots | |
| 2 tbsp | 30 ml | Flour |
| — | Bay leaf | |
| to taste | Salt |
Instructions
- Drop the well-washed mussels into boiling water so their shells open. Remove the meaty part, rinse it and simmer it together with the bay leaf.
- Sauté the finely chopped onion in the oil. Add the grated carrots and sauté them as well. Sprinkle with the flour and stir. Pour in the mussel broth and the juice of 4-5 tomatoes pressed through a sieve.
- Place the mussels (removed from the broth) in a baking tray. Pour the stewed vegetables over them and arrange rounds cut from the remaining tomatoes on top.
- Season the dish with salt to taste and bake in a moderate oven.