Steamed mussels with various herbs
Steamed mussels with various herbs

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, steamed mussels with various herbs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook steamed mussels with various herbs using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Steamed mussels with various herbs:
  1. Take 1 kg mussels
  2. Make ready 3-4 cloves garlic
  3. Take 4-5 spring onions
  4. Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil
  5. Get 1 1/2 cup dry white wine
  6. Get juice of 1 lemon
  7. Get fresh pepper
  8. Get oregano
  9. Take ground parsley, according to taste (at least 1/2 cup, it goes great with the recipe)

Scoop the mussels out into one large or four individual serving bowls and ladle the creamy juices over. Place another bowl on the table for the empty shells, some finger bowls and lots of napkins. Add cream, salt, and pepper to pot; simmer, uncovered, until mixture coats the back of a spoon. To serve, pour equal portions of sauce into soup bowls.

Steps to make Steamed mussels with various herbs:
  1. Clean the mussels thouroughly. You clean them by rubbing the shell very well under running water. If there are any barnacles or stuck stones, residue of other broken shells you might need to scrape them off with a small knife or rub it thoroughly to remove everything.
  2. Discard all mussels that are already open.
  3. Then, using a small knife, remove their beard.
  4. Place the healthy, closed mussels for only 2-3 minutes in a little boiling water or even better in a little wine, until they open, a sure sign that they are still alive. Throw away the ones that don't open.
  5. Heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté the onions cut into round slices.
  6. When the onions are tender add the cloves of garlic and continue sautéing for 2-3 minutes to let out their flavor.
  7. Add the washed mussels, cover the frying pan and cook over strong heat for a few (2-3) minutes, stirring a couple of times with a wooden spoon.
  8. Add the freshly ground pepper, a generous amount of the parsley (but not all of it), the lemon juice (keep a little to sprinkle over the ready mussels later), one dose of oregano and finally, the wine. Cook for an additional 4 minutes, stirring well in the meantime so that everything combines for a nice flavor.
  9. Leave them in the frying pan for a while so that a bit more of the wine evaporates in the meanwhile and serve hot, as they are in their shells, sprinkled with the rest of the parsley and some of the leftover stock.
  10. Sprinkle each plate with a little uncooked lemon juice, just before you start sucking them. Because mussels cooked this way are sucked from their shells, not eaten with a fork.

Arrange mussels on top; garnish with parsley. Serve steamed mussels as a first course, or as a full meal accompanied by salad and crusty bread to soak up the delicious sauce. When buying mussels, choose only those with uncracked, closed shells. Steamed mussels with herbs [. - ]. Do not steam over very high heat.

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