How to Boil Mussels (Summary)
Process of boiling mussels requires just three ingredients (four if you count the water for boiling).See, learning how to boil mussels isn’t so hard. Not only will you love them, but so will guests. Now that you have read this guide, you can blow away your guests as your serve up some fresh boiled mussels at your next dinner party. Bon appetite!
Equipment
- plate
- Pan
- Tablespoon
Ingredients
- Mussels
- Salt
- 1 Fresh lemon
Instructions
- Select fresh (still alive) normal-sized mussels
- Properly store the mussels until you are ready to cook them
- Clean the mussels (remove their beards if they are wild)
- Rinse them
- Throw them in a pot and completely submerge them
- Add salt
- Cover and turn heat to high
- Boil for five minutes
- Remove
- Add fresh squeezed lemon juice
Notes
First and foremost, I hope this was helpful and that you will soon be enjoying a nice batch of boiled mussels over a plate of angel hair primavera in the very near future. Secondly, let’s take a quick second and recap all that we discussed and learned today.