An exquisite appetizer, baked mussels, is often served in prestigious restaurants with beer or white wine. However, this dish can be easily prepared by yourself, spending very little time. In addition, it looks impressive on festive table, attracting the attention of dear guests.
Many housewives, wanting to diversify their family's diet, prepare various delicacies. They buy frozen mussels in supermarkets, which make excellent snacks. Most often, shellfish are sold directly in their shells, so the dish looks very beautiful and does not need advertising. There are many recipes for how to cook mussels baked in the oven in your home kitchen. Let's look at some of them.
For an exquisite delicacy you will need the following components:
A sprig of thyme gives shellfish a unique smell that evokes appetite and pleasant sensations.
Steps for making baked mussels with your own hands:
Baked mussels in butter sauce are served with boiled rice and fresh vegetables.
To prevent shellfish meat from looking like rubber, cooks advise not to keep it in the oven for longer than the prescribed time.
A gourmet snack, no worse than in a restaurant, is prepared from a simple set of products:
To create excellent mussels baked with cheese with your own hands, follow several simple processes:
According to this recipe, baked mussels with cheese are served hot.
To ensure that the clams lie flat on the baking dish, you can place a few toothpicks around them.
Fans of exotic dishes can surprise their friends with an overseas delicacy. Baked mussels in their shells resemble small boats with a delicious filling. They fit wonderfully into a holiday meal and will leave even the most uncompromising gourmets satisfied.
And the dish only needs a few ingredients.
11.04.2018
Despite the fact that mussels are considered a delicious seafood, their cost is reasonable, so anyone can cook them at home. In the culinary world, mussels are called the poor man's oysters. Many housewives are looking for a recipe for mussels in shells in the oven. Today we will discuss several ways to prepare shellfish.
Recipes for mussels in shells baked in the oven are so varied that each of you can choose the option that suits you, including what you can afford. The recipe for mussels in shells with cheese is very popular. It’s a pleasure to cook shellfish using this recipe.
Advice! When choosing shellfish, pay close attention to the shells. They must not be damaged or open. Otherwise, this indicates repeated freezing and unsatisfactory quality of seafood.
Mostly already boiled mussels are sold frozen. If you manage to find fresh seafood, you will have to learn how to cook green mussels in their shells. The recipe for them in the oven is not at all complicated.
The recipe for mussels in shells in garlic sauce is known not only to famous chefs, but also to ordinary housewives. If you want to surprise everyone, cook seafood in a creamy gravy. The dish has refined taste and a unique aroma.
Baked mussels can be complemented with a wide variety of toppings: sauces, cheeses, aromatic oils and vegetables. We will talk about some of the most delicious variations of this hot snack below.
Oddly enough, mollusks make up good company even noble cheeses with a pronounced taste. As proof, here's a simple recipe that coats mussels with a layer of Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, butter and fresh herbs.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Place the mussels in a frying pan, pour in about a quarter glass of water and leave them covered until the shells open. Remove one shell from the finished mussels and place the remaining part with the pulp on a baking sheet.
After melting the butter, fry the bread crumbs in it until browned, and then mix it with a pinch of salt and parsley. Spread the crumbs over the mussel shells and then top with cheese. Leave the shells under the grill until the cheese is completely melted.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Leave the mussels to cook in the pan until the shells open. Remove the empty sash.
Prepare the sauce by mixing mayonnaise with lime juice, pureed garlic and hot sauce. Cover the mussels in their shells with the mixture, and then cover everything with grated cheese. Bake the mussels at 180 degrees until the cheese is completely melted.
Garlic oil will help give the mussels a light garlic aroma and juiciness. Using this recipe as a basis, you can supplement your homemade oil with additives at your discretion, modifying the recipe from time to time.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Place the mussels, peeled from one of the wings, on a baking sheet. Prepare the aromatic butter by mixing the soft butter itself with pureed garlic and a little salt. Place a slice of hot pepper on each mussel and spread a generous amount of butter on top. Leave the mussels to bake for 8 minutes, and serve immediately after they are ready, sprinkled with chopped coriander.
Mussels are the traditional food of peoples living along the shores of the southern seas. However, this delicacy is not as popular among Russians as, say, among Europeans. However, if you know how to cook mussels deliciously, this seafood will have more supporters.
Ingredients:
500 g mussels;
2 cloves of garlic;
juice of ¼ lemon;
2 tbsp. spoons of olive oil;
½ teaspoon of dried herbs (Provencal, Italian, etc.);
5 black peppercorns;
salt - to taste
3 bay leaves
How to cook mussels baked in the oven:
Ingredients:
How to cook fried mussels:
Ingredients:
1 kg mussels;
1 small carrot;
1 small onion;
1 tbsp. spoon of butter;
1 teaspoon white pepper;
125 g white wine
How to cook mussels in wine:
And bring something completely unusual to the table. But not everyone has the opportunity to get some exotic items in local markets and supermarkets.
In such cases, baked mussels can be a real find; fortunately, they can easily be found on the shelves of most fish stores. The variety of recipes can please the most demanding housewife, because these mollusks are prepared in the form of fillets, in half shells, and whole. In addition, mussels come with a huge number of sauces, which you can also prepare yourself.
The cost of mussels is quite high, but quite comparable to the price of exquisite varieties of fish and shrimp. Of course, dishes made from these seafood cannot be classified as everyday cuisine, but why not treat yourself to such a delicious dish on a holiday? Those who decide to serve baked mussels may find the following recipes useful. They are different and different from each other, but each of them is able to satisfy the most demanding taste.
To prepare one kilogram of shellfish you will need:
The shells should be soaked in cold water in advance, allowing the sand to rinse out. Now boil water, add bay leaves and pepper, add mussels. After boiling again, wait exactly one minute and turn off. Place the shells on a plate to cool.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180 degrees. While it is heating, chop the garlic, pour in lemon juice, add oil and aromatic herb seasoning. Using a knife, open the wings, pour garlic sauce over the pulp, place on a baking sheet and bake for 7 minutes.
Ready! Mussels baked in shells can be served.
This dish is often served in restaurants. It is probably known to everyone who loves baked mussels. The recipe is designed for a kilogram of shellfish in shells. In addition, you will need:
Before cooking mussels, they must be soaked in water. However, it is advisable to always do this, even if they appear clean.
The next step is immersion in boiling water. This will make it possible to easily open the valves (unless, of course, we have solid shells rather than halves). Then place the shells on a baking sheet lined with foil and begin preparing the sauce. Saute the flour, add butter and 1 cup of broth. You can use the one in which the mussels were boiled. When the sauce becomes homogeneous, squeeze in the garlic and remove from heat. Break the yolk with a fork, add a couple of spoons of sauce to it, stir gently so as not to curdle, pour into the pan with the rest of the sauce. Sprinkle with lemon juice. How much it should be - everyone decides for themselves, depending on their culinary preferences.
Pour the resulting gravy over each flap with pulp and sprinkle with herbs. In a preheated oven, bake this dish until fully cooked in just 5 minutes. Mussels baked in the oven are served immediately while still warm.
Frozen clams are also suitable for preparing this dish. However, before cooking mussels, they need to be thawed. To prepare a serving of a kilogram of shellfish, prepare:
Baked mussels, the recipe for which contains wine, alcohol intoxication they don't call. This dish can be eaten by everyone. The fact is that under the influence of high temperature the “degree” simply evaporates, leaving only a sour taste and aroma.
We'll make the sauce like this. Fry the onion and pepper, add flour and wine, stir. Boil for 5 minutes and season with chopped garlic. Dissolve spices and sugar in water or broth, dilute the sauce with this mixture and let it boil again.
We will bake the mussels in the oven, on a baking sheet lined with foil, for no more than 10 minutes. Season each with sauce and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
For this dish, it is also advisable to buy mussels with one shell. If whole ones are used, they need to be opened, leaving the fillet on one of the shells, and the second one removed. Products required for cooking:
Blanch the mussels in boiling water along with the shells. In a cast iron wok, fry onion and garlic (finely chopped). Next, you need to pour in the wine, simmer a little and add finely chopped Dorblu. Simmer the sauce until thick. Place the shells on a baking sheet lined with parchment or foil, pour over the sauce, and bake in the oven for about 10 minutes at 160°C.
This dish is served hot, right along with the wings.
This delicious dish is served in the best restaurants in the world. Tender clam flesh, crispy caviar and viscous melted cheese create a divine combination. But in order to enjoy this luxurious dish, you don’t have to go to a restaurant. You can cook mussels baked with cheese and caviar yourself. To do this, we will stock up on the following set of ingredients:
Boil the washed and soaked mussels in boiling water for a couple of minutes and let the water drain. Meanwhile, grate the cheese on a fine grater and mix with mayonnaise. Add Japanese horseradish. How much of this spicy seasoning to add to a dish is up to everyone to decide for themselves. It all depends on the culinary habits of the family or company. Pour over soy sauce and lemon juice. Now add the caviar and mix thoroughly so that it is distributed evenly throughout the sauce. Place the mussels on a baking sheet and add the sauce. It should completely fill the shells.
Then we send the dish to bake in a very hot oven. It will take about 10 minutes for the baked mussels to cook.
As a rule, if these shellfish were cooked in the shells, then they are served in them. Usually they are laid out on one large dish, although serving them in portions is also quite acceptable. Baked mussels, like most seafood, go well with many types of white wine.
Etiquette rules state that you can eat mussels with a special oyster fork. But if pieces of shellfish are served in shells, it is quite acceptable not to use cutlery at all - just take the shell, bring it to your mouth and drink the contents. This must be done very carefully so that the juice does not splash.
If the valves are difficult to open even after boiling, then the shellfish are most likely stale. In this case, you should not eat them, because it is very easy to get poisoned by missing mussels.
Do not increase the time specified in the recipe too much, otherwise the meat will be tough. But you shouldn’t be afraid to experiment with ingredients: change one type of cheese for another, add your favorite seasonings to sauces, use other citrus juices instead of lemon juice, creating delicious dishes in your own kitchen.
Bake mussels at 230 degrees.
Ingredients
Mussels in half shells - 1 kilogram
Garlic - 3 cloves
Olive oil - 5 tablespoons
Lemon - half
Seasoning "Provencal" - half a teaspoon
Salt - to taste
How to bake mussels
Wash the mussels, separate the meat from the shells and then return each mussel to the shell. Place shells with mussels in a baking dish. Chop the garlic, mix with oil, seasonings and squeezed lemon juice. Cover each mussel sauce.
Preheat the oven to 230 degrees. Place the baking dish with mussels on average level ovens. Bake the mussels for 7 minutes.
for 12 mussels
1. Sauce with processed cheese: processed cheese - 200 grams, cream 20% - 50 milliliters, quail egg - 1 piece, butter - 1 teaspoon, cognac - 1 tablespoon, dill - several sprigs, Parmesan cheese - for 4 tablespoons, salt and pepper - to taste.
2. Garlic-lemon sauce for baked mussels: lemon juice - from a quarter of a lemon, garlic - 1 clove, butter - 1 tablespoon, dill and parsley - 4 tablespoons, salt and pepper - to taste.
3. Sour cream and saffron sauce for baking mussels: onion- half, spinach - 100 grams, saffron - half a teaspoon, butter - 50 grams, sour cream - 2 tablespoons, salt and pepper - to taste.
4. Sauce with flying fish caviar for baked mussels: cottage cheese- 100 grams, flying fish caviar - 100 grams.
Mussels baked with cheese are a delicious and easy-to-prepare appetizer that will decorate any table. There is a large amount of this dish in many cuisines around the world, with different sauces and ingredients.
To prepare mussels baked with cheese, you need:
Preparation
First of all, the mussels need to 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 to the frying pan, a spoonful of cream and squeeze out a small clove of garlic, place the mussels with the flaps down and simmer in the frying pan for ten minutes, then turn them over and simmer a little more. grated on a coarse grater.
Foil is spread on a baking sheet, on which the 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 a microwave oven set to maximum mode, and baked for five to ten minutes. More precisely, the baking time should be determined based on the characteristics of your oven. Mussels baked with cheese are served hot, with herbs and white wine.
If you want to decorate and change this recipe a little, make something more interesting and sophisticated than just mussels baked with cheese and vegetables, you can change the filling and add new flavors to this recipe with different sauces. For example, to prepare which you need:
The onion is finely chopped and fried over low heat with butter. When the onion acquires a golden hue, add flour to the frying pan and fry for another 1 - 2 minutes. Then you should add cream, bring to a boil and let it fry for another 2 - 3 minutes. Then you need to add sour cream and salt and pepper to taste.
The sauce is poured into the pre-cooked mussels, about one tablespoon into each shell, the cheese is grated on top and the whole thing is baked in the oven. Mussels baked with cheese and cream sauce are decorated with herbs and lemon slices before serving. It's best to serve them hot.
Another way to diversify baked mussels is to add spice with wasabi sauce. Mussels are prepared and marinated in the same way as in the first recipe, but instead of vegetables, wasabi sauce mixed with mayonnaise and herbs. The amount of ingredients required to prepare this sauce should be calculated at the rate of one for one mussel shell. Next, as in previous versions, everything is sprinkled with cheese and baked.
This is how you can easily and simply prepare a dish that will surprise and delight you, your loved ones and guests.
10.05.2018
Seafood has ceased to seem like an exotic product and now appears even on the everyday table of most Russians quite often. Such a simple dish as mussels in the oven with cheese and garlic is worth learning how to cook for everyone, as it can help out in a situation where you urgently need to feed guests or come up with an interesting lunch in a hurry.
In restaurants, mussels are served mainly in the wings, so if you want to surprise guests or family, you should first master this method of preparing them. It is labor-intensive, but the result is worth all the effort. It is very important not to bake the mussels for too long, and also to make the sauce correctly, which is based on lime or lemon juice and olive oil. Take hard cheese, since it should not melt to a fluid, fatty state.
This dish has both beneficial and harmful sides, we recommend it.
It is easier to work with this dish, first of all, because you do not need to monitor whether all the flaps will open or not: you immediately buy a peeled and boiled product, so all that remains is to defrost it and bring it to full readiness. In addition, this recipe for mussels baked with cheese and garlic can be called quite budget-friendly, because peeled shellfish are much cheaper, so it is perfect for frequent lunches or dinners.
A variety of mussels called “kiwi” deserves special attention - these are very large mollusks with large shells that are used for stuffing. Of course, you can work with them according to the recipes discussed above, but it is better to choose something special. For example, add shrimp and cream cheese with basil.
Preparation of moonshine and alcohol for personal use
absolutely legal!
After the collapse of the USSR, the new government stopped the fight against moonshine. Criminal liability and fines were abolished, and the article banning the production of alcohol-containing products at home was removed from the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. To this day, there is not a single law that prohibits you and me from engaging in our favorite hobby - preparing alcohol at home. This is evidenced by the Federal Law of July 8, 1999 No. 143-FZ “On Administrative Responsibility legal entities(organizations) and individual entrepreneurs for offenses in the field of production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products" (Collected Legislation Russian Federation, 1999, N 28, art. 3476).
Excerpt from Federal Law RF:
“The effect of this Federal Law does not apply to the activities of citizens (individuals) producing products containing ethyl alcohol for purposes other than sale.”
Moonshining in other countries:
In Kazakhstan in accordance with the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Administrative Offenses dated January 30, 2001 N 155, the following liability is provided. Thus, according to Article 335 “Manufacture and sale of home-made alcoholic beverages”, illegal production of moonshine, chacha, mulberry vodka, mash and other alcoholic beverages for the purpose of sale, as well as the sale of these alcoholic beverages, entails a fine in the amount of thirty monthly calculation indices with confiscation of alcoholic beverages , apparatus, raw materials and equipment for their manufacture, as well as money and other valuables received from their sale. However, the law does not prohibit the preparation of alcohol for personal use.
In Ukraine and Belarus things are different. Articles No. 176 and No. 177 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses provide for the imposition of fines in the amount of three to ten tax-free minimum wages for the production and storage of moonshine without the purpose of sale, for the storage of devices* for its production without the purpose of sale.
Article 12.43 repeats this information almost word for word. “Production or acquisition of strong alcoholic beverages (moonshine), semi-finished products for their production (mash), storage of apparatus for their production” in the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses. Point No. 1 states: “Manufacturing individuals strong alcoholic drinks (moonshine), semi-finished products for their production (mash), as well as storage of devices* used for their production - entail a warning or a fine of up to five basic units with confiscation of these drinks, semi-finished products and devices.”
*Purchase moonshine stills For home use It’s still possible, since their second purpose is to distill water and obtain components for natural cosmetics and perfumes.