Mussels and leeks on toast

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2-4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Valentine Warner

Published 2014

  • About

This is a favourite, so easy and utterly pleasing. Toast is a vehicle for so much more than we give it credit for. Long live life on toast!

Ingredients

  • 500 g large live mussels in the shell, cleaned and de-bearded
  • 200 ml white wine or cider

Method

  1. Check the mussels and discard any that are open and that don’t close when you tap them. Put a saucepan large enough to contain the mussels over heat and drop in the mussels, followed by the wine or cider. Once the liquid is bubbling, steam the mussels for 2-3 minutes, stirring once halfway through the cooking time. You want to take them off the heat when they have only j