Mussels are edible sea mollusks from the family of bivalves, which, along with oysters, have commercial significance. Mussels are a very valuable seafood, almost as good as oysters. Mussels are rich in vitamins, microelements and useful fatty acids. Of these, you can prepare a variety of delicious and healthy dishes, for example, they can be fried.
How to cook mussels?
The recipe is simple - mussels fried with onions and fried eggs with tomatoes .
Ingredients:
- mussels;
- vegetable oil;
- onion;
- fresh chicken eggs;
- tomatoes;
- lemon;
- a little butter;
- greenery.
Preparation:
Carefully washed mussels will lay out for a while in a colander, meanwhile heat the oil in a frying pan and, when the water from the mussels drain, we will put them in the pan. First, the mussels will "release" water from themselves and will be allowed to feed on it on low heat. We mix them with a spatula. How many minutes to fry mussels? It depends on the boiling time of the water. After the water released by mussels boils, add a little oil to the pan and lightly fry them for a couple of minutes. Add the fire to the middle, carefully add the chopped onion to the frying pan and fry it until tender, carefully manipulating the spatula. Mussels with onions are ready. In a separate frying pan fry slices of tomato on natural butter (you can take a baked - so it will taste better). We will add eggs so that the yolk does not grow, and cover it with a lid. We will fry on low heat until the yolks are tightened with a thin white film. Eggs should be roasted so that the yolk remains half-moist. Now you can serve everything to the table, pre-sprinkling the mussels with lemon juice and decorating with twigs of greens. To such a dish, it is wonderful to serve a glass of white or pink table wine.
Mussels fried with garlic
Ingredients:
- 200 g of peeled mussels;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil (olive or sunflower);
- leaves of endivia;
- greens (parsley, coriander, basil, rosemary);
- lemon.
Preparation:
How to cook mussels fried with garlic? Boil the water in the pan and put the mussels into it, cook them for 2-3 minutes, then throw it back into the colander and let it cool. We will heat the oil in a frying pan and lay out the mussels. Add garlic, crushed with a knife. Fry everything, stirring with a shovel or shaking a frying pan, for 1-2 minutes, no more. Ready mussels, fried with garlic, put on a dish with endive, sprinkle with lemon juice and decorate with twigs of greens. To this delicacy you can serve boiled rice with a salad of fresh tomatoes, black and green olives, cheese (mozzarella, feta, and brynza). You can serve a table light or strong unsweetened light wine or dark beer.
Frozen Clams
How to fry frozen mussels? This question interests all who live far from the sea. To begin with, if the mussels are peeled, it is necessary to unfreeze them in containers with cold water, then rinse thoroughly and discard in a colander. Then you can cook: pickle, cook, stew, fry. Any processing lasts no more than a few minutes. If the mussels are closed in shells, then we throw them into boiling water, in a few seconds they will open. You can certainly open the sinks with a knife.
Recipe for a dish of frozen mussels
Ingredients:
- 200-300 g of thawed mussels;
- 1 onion;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 1 lemon;
- a little vegetable oil;
- 30-50 ml of white wine;
- a little Dijon mustard with grains;
- lemon;
- greens (basil, coriander, rosemary).
Preparation:
Peeled onions thinly cut into rings. We will heat the oil in a frying pan and fry onions on medium-high heat until a beautiful pale golden hue appears. Add the mussels and chopped garlic into the frying pan, fry everything within 2-4 minutes. We pour wine and add mustard. Protoim a minute. Ready mussels with onions in a wine-mustard sauce we lay out on a dish and decorate with twigs of greens. As a side dish, you can serve a salad of tomatoes with cheese and olives, rice, pickled eggplants, stewed asparagus, boiled string beans, broccoli. Wine under this dish you can choose any unsweetened and not red.