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White Wine Mussels
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Difficulty:
easy
Preparation:
20 min.
Preparation
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Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 12 cups best-quality mussels
- 1 onion (finely chopped)
- 2 bay leaves
- 8 fresh thyme
- 1 Tbsp unsalted butter
- ⅜ cup dry white wine
- 2 Tbsps whipping cream
- ½ cup fresh parsley (roughly chopped)
Preparation steps
1.
Cleaning the mussels.
2.
Wash the mussels under cold running water, but don’t scrub the shells or the colour will transfer to the juices during cooking, giving them (and ask your fishmonger to credit them). Scrape of any barnacles from the mussels with a sharp knife and pull out the “beards”, drain well.
3.
Cooking the onion and Herbs.
4.
Over a medium heat, in a large pan, soften the onion, bay leaves and thyme in the butter for 1 minute.
5.
Cooking the mussels.
6.
Add the mussels and with wine, cover the pan tightly with a lid and cook for 4-5 minutes, until the mussels open.
7.
Finishing the dish.
8.
Stir in the cream and chopped parsley, than serve in a large dish or 4 soup plates. Give finger bowls to your guests and lot of good French bread to mop up the wonderful juices.
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