Name: Mussels baked with fresh tomatoes & feta
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 1 onion, finely chopped; 75 g/3 oz feta cheese, sliced into small cubes; 15 ml/1 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley; 2.5 ml/½ tsp sugar; ground black pepper; 1–2 sprigs of fresh thyme; 600 g/1 lb 6 oz fresh ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped, or 400 g/14 oz canned chopped tomatoes; 60–75 ml/4–5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 kg/2¼ lb fresh mussels; 120 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup white wine

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

About

My sister lives near a pretty seaside village south of Thessaloniki called Makriyialos. It is small and quiet, very traditional and old-fashioned, and it has a round bay framed by a narrow but lovely sandy beach. In the evening, the lights of Thessaloniki sparkle in the far distance like a kaleidoscope. Makriyialos, despite its size, is a busy little port because it has a thriving mussel-farming industry as well as an active fishing fleet.

A lot of the beautiful, large and fleshy mu