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Super-simple seafood marinara

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

3 T olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
4 sprigs fresh thyme
1 x 400 g canned peeled and diced tomatoes
1 cup tomato purée
1 T soffritto
1⁄2 cup white wine (or fish stock or water)
700 g Woolworths frozen mussels
6 Woolworths frozen hake medallions
300 g Woolworths frozen cooked and peeled medium prawns
1 T fish sauce
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
cheesy polenta, for serving

Method

1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Cook the onion over a low heat until soft. Add the garlic and thyme and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, tomato purée and soffritto and cook for 10 minutes.

2. Add the wine, mussels and hake, cover and cook for 10 minutes. Add the prawns, fish sauce and seasoning. Cook for 1 minute.

3. Serve with the cheesy polenta.

Find the recipe for cheesy polenta here.

Find more Italian recipes here.

Photographs: Jan Ras
Production: Abigail Donnelly
Food assistants: Claire-Ellen Van Rooyen and Tahila Pillay

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