Thursday, 23 April 2009

Spaghetti Cozze e Zafferano Gran Sapora

Browsing in a well known German supermarket in Malta I came across a small packet which had the word Zafferano, underneath the word was Gran Sapore .It had a picture of a flower on the front.On the back of the packet were what appeared to be two recipe's in Italian. One recipe was Spaghetti Cozze e Zafferano Gran Sapore.
Eventually the penny dropped, that the packet had three sachets of Saffron inside .
Enquiring in an Italian restaurant what was the word for mussels in Italian, they are known as Cozze.
i need to translate this recipe before I put it up on line; one of the Maltese managed a sort of translation but not that you could work with, so it will be up in the future.

However here is a recipe for Garlic and lemon mussels from an Italian cookbook I found in Malta

Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
1kg Mussels (Cozze)
6 cloves garlic finely chopped
1 chilli sliced
half a bunch of basil roughly chopped
4 Roma tomatoes (plum)
1 cup of white wine
1 teaspoon of salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 lemon cut in wedges

1 Heat the oil in a heavy based sauce pan until almost smoking. Add the mussels, they should make a popping noise when they hit the hot oil, cook for 1 minute.
2 Add the garlic, chilli, basil, tomatoes, and white wine. Cover with a lid and cook for a further 4 minutes.
3 Discard any mussel which do not open during cooking.Season with salt and pepper. Serve with lemon wedges

1 comment:

  1. this sounds very tasty, and i will will be asking for some on my next visit.

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