Main Meals
Super-simple seafood marinara
6
Easy
20 minutes
30 minutes“The seafood can be cooked from frozen, making this dish quite convenient. Sometimes I use only smoked haddock, which makes it more affordable. The marinara is also delicious with spaghetti.” – Abigail Donnelly
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Spier Merlot
Ingredients
Method
- 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
Ingredients
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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