Mussels baked with cheese - a dish for real gourmets

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Mussels baked with cheese is a delicious and easy-to-prepare appetizer that will decorate any table. There are a large number of recipes for this dish in many cuisines of the world, with various sauces and ingredients.

To cook mussels baked with cheese, you need:

• mussels in shells - 10 pieces;
• butter - 30 gr;
• dry white wine;
• cheese (parmesan) - 100 gr;
• garlic;
• tomato - 1 pcs;
• lemon - 1 piece;
• s alt;
• ground black pepper;
• cream (better fat).

Cooking

First of all, the mussels should be marinated for 10 minutes in white wine and lemon juice, adding a little black pepper. Tomatoes and onions are cut into cubes and fried with butter over low heat for a couple of minutes. Next, you need to remove the vegetables, and add another piece of butter, a spoonful of cream and squeeze out a small clove of garlic to the pan, put the mussels with the wings down and simmer in the pan for ten minutes, then turn them over and stew a little more. Parmesan cheese is grated on a coarse grater.

Foil is laid on a baking sheet, on which mussels are laid out, and pre-fried vegetables are laid out on top, each mussel is generously sprinkled with cheese, and the baking sheet is covered with foil on top.

Next, the mussels are sent to the oven, which should already be preheated to 180 degrees, or the microwave oven set to the maximum mode, and baked for five to ten minutes. More precisely, the baking time should be determined based on the characteristics of your oven. On the table, mussels baked with cheese are served hot, with herbs and white wine.

If you want to decorate and change this recipe a little, cook something more interesting and delicious than just mussels baked with cheese and vegetables, you can change the filling and add new flavors to this recipe thanks to various sauces. For example, cream sauce, for which you need:

• 1 onion;
• ground pepper;
• 1 tablespoon flour;
• 300 ml 30% fat cream;
• 1 tablespoon sour cream;
• 30 grams of butter;
• s alt.

The onion is finely chopped and fried over low heat with butter. When the onion acquires a golden hue, flour is added to the pan and fried for another 1 - 2 minutes. Then you should add cream, bring to a boil and let fry for another 2 - 3 minutes. Then you need to add sour cream and s alt and pepper to taste.

The sauce is poured into pre-cooked mussels, into each shellabout one tablespoon each, the cheese is rubbed on top and everything is baked in the oven. Mussels baked with cheese and cream sauce are garnished with herbs and lemon slices before serving. Best served hot.

Another fun way to spice up baked mussels is to spice them up with wasabi sauce. Mussels are prepared and marinated in exactly the same way as in the first recipe, but instead of vegetables, wasabi sauce mixed with mayonnaise and herbs is added as a filling. The amount of ingredients required to prepare this sauce should be calculated in the amount of one tablespoon for one mussel shell. Further, as in the previous versions, everything is sprinkled with cheese and baked.

It's so easy and simple to prepare a dish that will surprise and delight you, your loved ones and guests.