Mussels Steamed with Vegetables in White Wine
February 11th, 2012 in Fish, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 1h
This not complicated recipe is my first attempt to cook mussels. They turned out juicy and light. Thanks to Hans-Peter and his cooking lessons 🙂
Vegetables cooked this way, with wine and mussels juices, taste great as well as mussels themselves, serve them all together!
By the way, 1lb-1.5lb of mussels per serving sounds about right, this way amount of ingredients listed in this recipe is enough to feed 2-3 people.
Ingredients:
- 3lb of mussels
- 1 onion
- 2 carrots
- 1 stalk of leek
- 4 stalks of celery
- 3 roma tomatoes
- 5-6 garlic cloves
- 2 cups of dry white wine
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- Fresh parsley
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients: if you use wild mussels they need more thorough cleaning; farmed ones are usually sold prepared for cooking and just need rinsing with cold water; if you wish you can use canned diced tomatoes instead of fresh ones:
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Warm up big cooking pot with 2 tablespoons of oil over moderate heat; peel and chop onion, add it to the cooking pot:
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Fry onions stirring occasionally, until transparent:
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Then peel and slice carrots; add them to the pot:
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Continue frying onions with carrots for 10-15 mins, stir from time to time:
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While carrots are cooking, blanch tomatoes, I also remove seeds right before adding them to the pot:
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Peel and chop garlic:
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Clean and slice leek; add to pot:
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And mix (the real reason why I post this picture here is because it does look great):
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Add chopped celery stalks to the pot, mix and cook for 2-3 mins:
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Add about 2 cups of white dry wine in:
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Let vegetables and wine to cook over moderate low heat:
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Meanwhile rinse and clean mussels with running cold water:
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Bring heat to high and pour mussels to the cooking pot:
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Let them steam over wine and vegetables until all mussels open, over time mix pot content to bring mussels from bottom to top and cook them evenly:
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Then add chopped blanched and seeded tomatoes (or canned ones, to your taste):
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And garlic:
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Mix everything last time:
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Ladle cooked mussels along with vegetables into big soup bowls, season with chopped parsley and serve hot, goes great together with toasted baguette seasoned with garlic:
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