Chorizo with Portuguese Mussels

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
• 4 Zweigle’s Chicken Chorizo Sausage links, quartered and sliced
• 1 lb. mussels, cleaned
• 5 garlic cloves, sliced
• 2 tbsp. paprika
• 1/2 cup tomato paste
• 1/4 cup white wine
• 1 quart canned crushed tomatoes
• 1/2 gallon clam juice
• 3 lbs. baker potatoes, medium diced
• 3 tbsp. curly parsley, chopped

Instructions

1. In a heavy-bottom pot, heat the oil over medium high heat. Add the sausage and cook for 5 minutes stirring often.
2. Add the garlic cloves and sauté for 1 minute. Add the paprika and cook for 2 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook for 3 minutes. Deglaze pot with white wine.
3. Add the potatoes and cook for 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook for 1 minute. Then add the clam juice and simmer until the potatoes are done. Reserve this solution.
4. Heat a sauté pan over high heat for 2 minutes. Add mussels and 3 cups of the sausage solution and cover with a lid. Cook until the mussels open up completely.
5. Pour mussels and mixture into a large bowl and face all open mussels upward and sprinkle generously with the parsley and serve immediately.