Ingredients

  • 300 grams fresh pasta
  • 250 grams mussels
  • 1/3 cup white wine (Muscadet)
  • 2 clove garlic fined choped
  • 1 pinch of pepper, parsley, koliander or mint and olive oil
  • 50 grams dry porcini**
  • 1 cup liquid from the boiled mussels
  • 4 tbsp cream (optional)
  • 1 fresh black pepper, salt
  • 1 mint (optional)
  • 10 cooked mussels

Method

  • *Muscadet is a really nice French wine that combines perfect with the mussels
  • *the pasta can be anything but not filled with meat
  • Wash the mussels with cold water.
  • Then put them in a pot with all the rest ingridients.
  • Turn the fire on and close the pot.
  • Leave them for 10min.
  • When they are open are ready.
  • If one is close don't mean for sure that is dead, but if you don't have the expirience is better to through it away
  • **if you cannot find them dry you can buy the "prepared sauce with porcini" in the vase.
  • Barilla has it.
  • Filtrate the water from the mussels when they are ready.
  • Put it in a pan
  • You can sink the porcini into wine for some minutes if you like, so they ll be soft.Then you can add them into the sauce
  • Put all the ingridients in the pan and the last 3 min the boiled fresh pasta
  • Stir them for 3 min and in the last stir add the mussels, you can leave one or two with the sheld just for decoration