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Mussels in Garlic White Wine Sauce

2012-06-29
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  • Yield : 1 pouind mussels
  • Servings : 2
  • Prep Time : 10m
  • Cook Time : 20m
  • Ready In : 30m

This is something I did the other night.  Mr. Wonderful was working late.  I didn’t know what to fix him.  The kids were gone.  What resulted has had him talking ever since.

I had a bag of frozen mussels in the freezer left over from our Crab Boil for Chris’ birthday.

I started with 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of butter.  Put them in a pot and let the butter melt and the olive oil heat up.  Swirled the pot around a bit and let them get nice and cozy together.

Chopped up one-half a large onion pretty fine.  Also chopped up 3 cloves of garlic – again pretty fine.

Tossed them into the pot with the olive oil and butter.

Cook them low -you don’t want them to brown, just get nice and transluscent and soft.

Add one cup of white wine.

I also added 1/2 teaspoon of dried thyme.

Then I mixed all of this together and dumped in a pound of mussels.  I buy them frozen at Wal-Mart.  It’s what we have to do in the southwest.  Please don’t judge us non-oceanic people.  But we have incredible beef out here.

Can I just stop for a minute and tell you… when we do a crab boil, I don’t really care for mussels.  In this recipe, I actually like them….it’s all in the sauce I think.

Stir the mussels into the sauce and pop the lid on.

Cook for about 8-10 minutes on medium-low heat.  Any mussel that doesn’t open, you want to throw away.  They’re bad I tell ya…BAD! Toss em!

While that’s cooking, take a loaf of your favorite crusty bread and put it into the oven to warm.  I put mine right on the oven rack at 350º for about 8 minutes.  It’s perfect.

Now take your mussel pot and pour the whole mess, broth and all into a bowl.

Take your crusty bread and slice it.  Place it around the outside of the bowl.

You could serve this with a salad and it’s a nice light meal for two.

Or serve it as an appetizer.

Either way, I know it makes Mr. Wonderful happy.

If it makes him happy, I’m happy.

And I kind of like it myself.

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Serves: 4
 

Ingredients
  • 2 T. olive oil
  • 2 T. butter
  • ½ large onion, chopped fine
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced fine
  • 1 c. white wine
  • ½ t. thyme
  • pinch of salt and pepper
  • 1 pound mussels
  • 1 loaf crusty bread of your choice

Instructions
  1. Heat butter and olive oil in large sauce pan just until butter melts over medium heat.
  2. Add onion and garlic. Cook on medium-low for 3 minutes.
  3. Add white wine and thyme.
  4. Cook another minute then add mussels.
  5. Put lid on pot and cook 8-10 minutes.
  6. While cooking place bread on rack in oven and let warm.
  7. Remove bread and slice.
  8. Pour contents of pot with mussels and sauce into bowl.
  9. Serve in bowl with bread for dipping in sauce

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Katie's love of cooking and eating good food has led her down a path of fun filled friend and family gatherings around the kitchen. She is an Oklahoma Food blogger, TV food personality for Freedom43tv, author of Food Lovers's Guide to Oklahoma and lover of all all the good things of life!
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Katie's love of cooking and eating good food has led her down a path of fun filled friend and family gatherings around the kitchen. She is an Oklahoma Food blogger, TV food personality for Freedom43tv, author of Food Lovers's Guide to Oklahoma and lover of all all the good things of life!

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  1. posted by Vivette Pullum Ashen-Brenner on July 25, 2012

    I love this recipe! I make it for my mom everytime I visit her. She remembers eating mussels at festivals as a young girl growing up in France and the memories are as sweet as the meal is tasty.

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