Moules Marinieres (Sailors Mussels)
Moules Marinieres (Sailors Mussels)

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, moules marinieres (sailors mussels). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Increase heat to high and add cider or wine. As soon as all the mussels are open, transfer mussels to a bowl using tongs. Place pan lid over bowl to keep mussels warm.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook moules marinieres (sailors mussels) using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Moules Marinieres (Sailors Mussels):
  1. Get 1 large onion
  2. Make ready 2 garlic cloves (or 3 if you like strong flavour)
  3. Prepare 1 kg fresh mussels (not greenlipped)
  4. Prepare 200 ml fresh crisp white wine
  5. Make ready 1 tsp plain flour
  6. Prepare 1 salt and pepper
  7. Make ready 1 fresh crusty bread or baguette
  8. Make ready 1 chopped parsley (optional)

The dish basically consists of delicately steamed fresh mussels in a white wine, garlic, parsley, butter, onion and cream sauce. Mussels are the ultimate chameleon, adaptable to virtually any cuisine. French, Italian, Thai, whatever good sauce you can think of, it probably tastes good on mussels. Today, we are making mussels in white wine.

Steps to make Moules Marinieres (Sailors Mussels):
  1. Clean the mussels in a sink of water and remove the beards (your fishmonger MAY do this for you but I always do my own). THROW OUT ANY THAT DO NOT CLOSE WHEN YOU TAP THEM SHARPLY (note: I do not use greenlipped mussels as they are tough and chewy the smaller black ones are way better)
  2. Chop onion and garlic
  3. Sautee onion and garlic until soft but do not let it brown
  4. Add the mussels to the pan with onion and garlic
  5. Pour over the wine. COVER and cook the mussels for about ten minutes until they are all open
  6. Meanwhile, mix the flour and butter to a paste
  7. Strain the wine into another small pan and boil rapidly then add the butter/flour paste and mix into the liquid. Reduce heat and simmer until the sauce thickens (about 3 or 4 mins)
  8. Optional - sprinkle parsley sprigs onto mussels
  9. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve with crusty bread/baguette

Or, in French, the fancy-sounding moules mariniéres, which really just means sailor's mussels - aka humble, poor people food. To cook the mussels in a large saucepan over a high heat, melt the butter. Bring to the boil, add the mussels and cover with the tight-fitting lid. Stir in the cream and chopped parsley. Put mussels, butter, wine, shallots, salt, and thyme in a medium pot.

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