Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Blue mussels in creamy white wine sauce


In Estonian

Very tasty dish, that suits very well to rainy evening. Seafood is always delicious.

Ingredients:
1 kg blue mussels
2 shallots
25 g celeriac
3 big garlic gloves
1 tsp chili flakes
15 g butter
vegetable oil
100 ml of white wine
200 ml of whipping cream
200 g processed cheese
salt, pepper, sugar
fresh dill

Clean and chop shallots, garlic and celeriac into small even pieces. Cook shallots, celeriac, garlic and chili flakes with butter and vegetable oil until shallots has become a little bit softer. Add white wine and let it boil until the alcohol has evaporated. Add whipping cream and let it boil some minutes.

Add processed cheese and boil in low heat until the cheese has melted. Spice with salt, pepper and sugar if needed. Add fresh chopped dill.

Finally add washed blue mussels and cook these in sauce ca 7 minutes. Cover pot with lid. All the mussels, what has not opened throw away and do not eat these.
Serve mussels with sauce and chopped dill.
Eat mussels with fresh sour dough bread, what has crispy crust and soft inside.



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