The recipe for Calabrian-style mussels and beans in jar cooking, a delicious soup of mussels and beans cooked in a jar in the microwave. Great to serve as an appetizer, main dish, or to season fileja with mussels and beans. I tried the mussel and clam soup in jar cooking and the mussel soup in jar cooking, but this is one of my first jar cooking recipes that has a strong connection to my land, Calabria, to which I am very attached. The recipe is very simple, you will just need to sauté garlic and chili pepper in the microwave, then add the shelled and still frozen mussels, high-quality peeled tomatoes, and pre-cooked borlotti beans. The rest will be done by jar cooking. If you don’t know it yet, here you can find the instructions for jar cooking.
Now, get the jars ready and let’s make the best mussels and beans in jar cooking recipe ever!
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Inexpensive
- Rest time: 20 Minutes
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Jar Cooking, Microwave
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All Seasons
- Energy 226.81 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 14.63 (g) of which sugars 2.28 (g)
- Proteins 13.36 (g)
- Fat 13.05 (g) of which saturated 2.32 (g)of which unsaturated 2.35 (g)
- Fibers 4.34 (g)
- Sodium 648.37 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 187 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for Mussel and Bean Soup in Jar Cooking
- 10.5 oz mussels (frozen shelled only)
- 8.5 oz canned borlotti beans (drained weight)
- 7 oz peeled tomatoes
- 2 cloves garlic (small)
- 1 chili pepper
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 sprigs parsley
- 2 tsp tomato paste (optional)
- 2 pinches salt (optional)
What You Need for Jar Cooking?
You can buy suitable jars for jar cooking in the microwave, already equipped with 4 clamps, on the site Decorazioni dolci, with discount code WECK10.
- 1 Microwave Oven
- 2 Jars 500 ml with thin seal
- 1 Microwave Tray Crisp-like
How to Make the Jar Cooking Mussels with Beans Recipe
Peel the garlic cloves, chop them and distribute them in the tray or bowl. Add the chopped chili pepper and the oil. Sauté for 1 minute at the microwave’s highest power. Add the peeled tomatoes to the sauté and mash them with a fork. Season to taste with salt and add the mussels, borlotti beans, and washed and chopped parsley.
Distribute everything into the 2 jars, then clean the edges, close, and clamp. Place one jar in the microwave and start cooking at the power indicated by the water test, I use 600 watts, for 6 minutes. At the end of cooking, remove from the microwave and cook the second jar.
At the end of cooking, let the closed jars rest for at least 20 minutes, or until consumption.
During the rest, the jars will finish cooking and a vacuum will form allowing you to store the jar-cooked mussels with beans for 15 days in the refrigerator.
You can serve the soup directly in the jars, accompanied by slices of toasted bread. If you want to serve it as an appetizer, you can distribute it in small bowls and enrich it with chopped parsley and diced toasted bread. Alternatively, you can use it as a sauce and dress spaghetti or artisanal maccheroncini.
Rosella Errante’s Tips
If you have leftover fresh mussels, you can use them instead of frozen ones and cook each jar for 5 minutes instead of 6. Instead of borlotti beans, you can use pre-cooked cannellini beans.
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