Discovery is everything. - Makro

To drink: Graça of course!
Pasta with creamy
garlic g mussels
ingredients
- 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 250 ml cream
- 500 g fresh, cleaned mussels
- 125 ml Graça
- ¼ cup fl at-leaf parsley, chopped
- Zest of ½ lemon
- 2 medium tomatoes, peeled and diced
- 250 g (½ packet) linguine or spaghetti
- Salt and pepper, for seasoning
method m
Cook C the pasta in a pot of salted boiling water until al dente.
Fry F the crushed garlic in the butter and olive oil in a large
saucepan s over medium heat until the garlic turns a light
golden g brown. Add the cream and diced tomatoes. Allow
to t simmer. Add the fresh mussels and Graça to a separate
saucepan, s cover and steam over high heat for about fi ve
minutes m or until the shells of the mussels open up. Discard
any a unopened mussels and drain the cooked pasta.
Add A the pasta, mussels and white wine liquid to the
creamy c garlic sauce and stir well. Garnish with the
lemon l zest and chopped parsley and season with
salt s and pepper.
Graça is light, fresh and youthful in style, inspired by the famous vinho verde wines
of Portugal. Easy-going and unpretentious, it’s very quaff able with a lively, natural
acidity and is a truly versatile food wine. It bursts with aromas of passion fruit and
guava, while its crisp, off -dry and well-balanced taste abounds with tropical fruit
and citrus fl avours.
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