Mussels in Coconut Cream Sauce

Mexilhões com Molho de Côco

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Brazilian Kitchen: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes for the Home Cook

By Leticia Moreinos Schwartz

Published 2012

  • About

Mussels are relatively cheap, easy to prepare, extremely tasty and go well with so many flavours. This recipe is just as much about the broth as it is about the mussel. While cooking, the mussels become tender and sweet, and exude their own juices - infusing the sauce with the perfect ocean flavour. It’s worth having a piece of bread on the side to catch any leftover sauce. Choose mussels that smell like the ocean, and with tightly shut shells or shells that shut when tapped, as a sign that