If you want to amaze your friends with another mouth watering authentic Italian cooking, here is a good quality recipe that only requires a few basic ingredients. It is simple and delicious and economical to make. A combination of mussels and potatoes called Cozze e patate.
Here are the ingredients:
- 1 Kg (2.2 lb) Fresh mussels
- 1 Kg (2.2 lb) Potatoes
- 4 Eggs
- 60 g (2 ½ oz) Parmesan or Pecorino cheese (grated)
- A small bunch on flat leaf parsley (finely chopped)
- 1 Fish stock cube
- 2 Cloves of garlic
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and black pepper for seasoning
Preparations:
Take a deep pan and spread some olive oil in the bottom. Slice all the potatoes, making slices 2- 3 mm thick, and sprinkle with black pepper and drizzle again with olive oil. Then Prepare some fish stock. Dissolve one fish stock cube in 450 ml (¾ pt) of boiling water. Now, put the pan on low heat and add a couple of ladles of fish stock. Next, cover with a lid and steam the potatoes for about 15-20.
Meanwhile, chop the parsley. Break the eggs into a small bowl and stir with a fork. Add the parsley and parmesan cheese; season it with black pepper and a bit of salt. This will be your cream sauce for the mussels and potatoes
Now it’s time to cook the mussels in a pan with olive oil and garlic. Then stir so that all the mussels are coated with the garlic flavored oil. Once it is cooked, you can set the steam potatoes in a pan with the cooked mussels on top and bake in the oven for 15-20mins at 200 degrees Celsius.
Enjoy and Serve with a glass of white win
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