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Chilli mussel fettuccine

  • Time to make: 30 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon oil
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • ½ teaspoon dried chilli flakes
  • 2 cups passata
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • ½ cup reduced-fat coconut milk
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • 200g fresh fettuccine
  • ⅓ cup reduced-salt vegetable or chicken stock
  • 16 New Zealand green-lipped mussels, washed and scrubbed
  • fresh chopped parsley and lemon wedges, to garnish
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 To make the sauce, heat oil in a non-stick pan and cook onion and garlic until softened. Add a little spray oil if necessary. Add chilli flakes and cook for a minute.

    2 Add the passata and sugar and cook for 3-4 minutes. Add coconut milk, season with pepper and heat for 5 minutes, stirring a few times.

    3 To cook the pasta, fill a large pot with water and bring to the boil. Add fettuccine and cook until al dente — about 3-4 minutes.

    4 Remove from the heat. Drain almost all of the liquid, leaving about 1/4 cup water with the pasta. This will stop it sticking.

    5 To cook the mussels add the liquid stock to a large pan and bring to the boil. Add mussels and steam until open. When opened remove from the heat. Throw out any that don’t open.

    6 Remove cooked mussels from shells. Add the cooked fettuccine to the sauce.  Stir to combine. Add mussels and serve. Garnish with fresh herbs and lemon.

    Variations

    Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free pasta and check passata and stock are gluten free.

    HFG tip

    Recipe by Aidan Clark, Manurewa High School (one of the winning entries from NZ Nutrition Foundation’s Just Cook: Create a Family Meal Challenge 2015).

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