Mussels in a Creamy White Wine and Garlic Sauce

Name: Mussels in a Creamy White Wine and Garlic Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: plenty of black pepper; ½ vegetable stock cube; 1 white onion, diced; 50 g butter; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 2 kg mussels, cleaned; 300 ml white wine; juice of ½ lemon; small handful of curly parsley, chopped; 200 ml double cream

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Seafood Shack

By Kirsty Scobie and Fenella Renwick

Published 2020

About

We think most people love the mussels mainly for the sauce, no? That’s why we always make sure there’s lots of it! And some chunky bread to soak it all up.

Ingredients

50 g butter
1 white onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, chopped</

Europe
United Kingdom
Fish course
Pescatarian
Scotland
Gluten-free

Method

Put a large saucepan over a medium heat and add the butter, onion and garlic. Fry off for about ten minutes until everything is lovely and soft. Crumble in the veg stock cube and add the lemon juice.

Increase the heat, throw in the mussels and the wine and put the lid on the pan. The wine will make steam and start to cook the mussels. Once the mussels are nearly all open (about two or t