# Mejillones a la Marinera

A recipe for mussels in a marinera sauce, perfect as a Christmas dish.

- Total time: 5 min
- Cuisine: Spanish
- Category: Appetizer
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 natural tomato
- mussels
- little wine
- good stream olive oil
- little salt
- 2 spoonfuls wheat flour
- 1.5 spoonfuls sweet paprika
- 150 ml water
- parsley

## Instructions

1. Cut one onion and two cloves of garlic.
2. Peel one natural tomato, cut it and put it in the mixer to have your crushed tomato.
3. Clean the mussels.
4. Put the mussels in an empty pot, add a little wine and let it boil until they open.
5. Strain your mussels and preserve the broth.
6. Open and separate the mussels.
7. Add a good stream of olive oil, add the garlic and when it dances, add the onion.
8. Season with a little salt and stir.
9. Add two spoonfuls of wheat flour for a pasty effect and one and a half spoonfuls of sweet paprika.
10. Pour the crushed tomato and stir until you have a kind of paste.
11. Pour the leftover mussel broth and add 150 ml of water.
12. Let everything cook for about 5 minutes.
13. Optionally, you can crush the result.
14. Add the mussels.
15. Cut the parsley and decorate the plate.

## Equipment

- mixer
- pot

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBx6o58/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/d008ef27-d28e-4963-bbe9-06ebd61b77c3
- Extracted: 2026-01-21

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