Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

2 tb Olive oil
3 md Garlic cloves, chopped fine
1/2 c Rich, salt-free fish stock
1 lg Pinch of saffron threads
32 sm Fresh mussels in the shell,
-rinsed clean debearded
1 cn Salt-free whole tomatoes
-(16-ounce)
1 tb Double-concentrate tomato
-paste
1 tb Sugar
1 Bay leaf
2 tb Fresh chives, finely chopped
Cooked spaghetti or linguine

In a large saucepan, heat the olive oil with the garlic over moderate
heat. Add the stock and the saffron and bring to a boil. Add the
mussels, cover the pan, and steam until all the mussels have opened,
3 to 3 minutes; discard any unopened mussels. With a slotted spoon,
remove the mussels from the pan and keep them warm in a covered bowl.

Add the tomatoes to the pan, breaking them up with your hands, and
stir in the remaining ingredients, except for the chives. Simmer
briskly until the sauce is thick but fairly liquid, 5 to 7 minutes.
then return the mussels to the pan and simmer to warm them through,
about 1 minute more.

Spoon the sauce, shells and all, over cooked pasta. Garnish with
chives.

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