Seafood is sophisticated and delicious. In addition, they are a complete source of protein, a variety of vitamins and minerals. It’s not so difficult to cook them, and the result is amazing. For example, any pasta will seem like a dish from a restaurant, if mussels are attached to it.
A recipe for their preparation can include both frying and baking - there is an option for every taste.
Breaded mussels
This dish will serve as an excellent snack for a good cold beer on a hot day or in addition to white wine. Here's what you need to recreate this recipe in your kitchen: river mussels - three hundred grams, white wine - one hundred milliliters, an egg, breading flour, lemon, pepper, salt. Rinse the mussels thoroughly from sea litter and fragments of shells under running water. Dry with a napkin and place on a plate, sprinkle with flour and turn over. Sprinkle again and leave for a while. Beat the egg, salt, pepper, pour the wine and beat on. Add a little flour to make a very thin batter. Now you need to put the mussels in the prepared batter. You can also simply pour them with batter. One way or another, excess dough will need to be shaken off. The mussels recipe allows you to fry in any convenient way. If there is a deep fryer, the process will be extremely simple.
But you can act with the help of a stewpan. Heat the butter so that it crackles, and put all the mussels in it, separating them with a fork so that they do not stick together. Reduce the heat, fry for about three minutes, turn over and after another three minutes the breading should be completely fried. Now the mussels can be safely mixed with a spatula or spoon, frying until dark brown. Transfer the prepared seafood to a plate and pour lemon juice on it. Serve with a glass of wine or beer.
Seafood with vegetables
For this dish, both fresh and frozen mussels are good. Seafood recipes do not usually relate to this too fundamentally. To prepare mussels with vegetables, you will need three hundred grams of seafood, onion, carrots, red bell pepper, a few cloves of garlic, a tablespoon of tomato paste, olive oil.
Spices for this dish can be chosen to taste,
nutmeg is good
. So, to
prepare a mussel recipe offers so. Peel and chop carrots and onions, fry them in olive oil until soft. Add peeled, chopped garlic, chopped garlic and salt to vegetables. Cover and simmer for ten minutes without water. Add nutmeg and tomato paste. Add a recipe for mussels and fresh tomatoes, if the season is suitable. Stew for a quarter of an hour, then add seafood, mix and wait for boiling. After five minutes, remove the cap to get rid of excess fluid. Mussels are ready to be served, it remains only to boil good Italian pasta for them, which will serve as an excellent side dish. Vegetable sauce shades the taste of pasta, and mussels create an exquisite note of aroma. However, in itself this dish is also quite worthy.