Mussels and rice are a winning combination in this sunny dish, flavoured with parsley and garlic. “I love these Spanish paella-type dishes,” says Rick Stein. “There’s a similar, but slightly more complicated and expensive, version of this recipe in my book Long Weekends. I remember filming it at a restaurant on the beach in Cádiz. I chose the arroz verde, but the crew went for seafood paella coloured with the extremely bright yellow of fake saffron. The camera pulled away from my demure green and white bowl to reveal everybody else wearing sunglasses while eating.”