Dishes from mussels

You can easily surprise guests with your culinary art, if you serve dishes from mussels. Cooking this product is very simple. But many housewives are frightened by the fact that fresh mussels are sold in closed shells. With heat treatment, the shells are opened. Of course, you can buy already peeled and frozen mussels meat, from which you can prepare a delicate salad with corn. But we suggest you pamper yourself and guests with other equally tasty and original dishes from mussels.

Mussels baked

Baked mussels are very tasty and fragrant. Try to prepare this useful and tasty dish and you. You will need such ingredients:

• 0.5 kg of mussels


• 1 clove of garlic


• 3 tbsp. l. sour cream


• 2 tbsp. l. breadcrumbs


• 3 tbsp. l. olive oil


• 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise


• parsley greens

First you should wash the mussel flaps wellbefore further heat treatment. Fresh mussels put in a saucepan, pour cold water and cook over medium heat. The shell will soon open, after which immediately remove the pan from the fire. Remove the open mussels from one leaf.

Grind the pestle with garlic and a couple of twigsparsley. Add sour cream, mayonnaise and olive oil. Pour the breadcrumbs and mix the resulting sauce. From the prepared for further baking, remove the meat of the mussels. Fill each sauce with sauce, and put mussel meat on top. Bake mussels in the oven at 150 ° C for 10-15 minutes. As soon as the meat gets a little brown, remove the shellfish from the oven.

Mussels fried

Sometimes dishes from mussels have such a unique and unique taste that they can not be compared with anything else. We offer you to cook and eat grilled mussels. To prepare this dish you will need:

• 2 kg of mussels


• 2 eggs


• flour


• breadcrumbs


• sunflower oil


• 1 lemon


• tomato sauce

In a pot of water, heat fresh mussels untilthey will not open the sash. Peel the mussels meat from the shell. Rinse the meat under running water and lay the mussels on a clean kitchen towel to remove excess moisture. Dried mussels roll in flour, then in an egg, whipped with a little milk or water, and then in breadcrumbs. Fry the mussels with well-heated sunflower oil. Put ready mussels on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

Served with fried mussels cut into fourpieces of lemon. Everyone can squeeze a small amount of lemon juice onto his dish. Separately to the mussels, serve tomato sauce, in which you can add a little juice, which will separate from the mollusks during their preliminary heat treatment.