Saturday, February 22, 2014

Baked Mussels



This is probably the easiest and best recipe for mussels. The simplicity of ingredients and preparations gives an incredible satisfaction of this dish. I would say this is could be a good menu in any special occasion if you would like to throw a party.
There is one Chinese buffet restaurant nearby where we lived in Washington, but they serve mixed Chinese, Japanese and Italian food. They served this dish special only for dinner and you know the price for dinner is more expensive than lunch. Since I tasted it, I got curious and tried to figure out how the chef of that restaurant made this dish and call it “baked mussels in dynamite sauce” that’s what the label I read on top of the steam table. I went to that restaurant, numerous times just to eat, taste, and stare just to feel what ingredients are in those mussels.
I made some experiment couple of times, tweaks some ingredients I have seen online, but this one is I can say 90 percent closer taste of what that restaurant serves.
Try and let you get kicked out of my yummylicious baked mussels.

Ingredients:

 1 lb. frozen green shells New Zealand mussels
1 cup reduced fat mayonnaise
½ cup Thai spicy mayonnaise
¼ cup evaporated milk
1 cup mozzarella cheese
3 Tbsp. olive oil

 Procedure:

1. Boil water in a large pot enough to cover mussels.
2. When water is boiling, add the mussels and off the heat. Blanch it for 3 minutes, drain and set aside. If you have the fresh mussels, you need to remove the empty side of it.
3. Mix all the rest of the ingredients in a bowl. If you don’t have Thai spicy mayonnaise, you can simply replace it with hot sauce and add some more regular mayonnaise.
4. Scoop the mixture and top it on mussels. 1 teaspoonful of mixture on each piece is enough.
5. Preheat oven to broiler setting.
6. Arrange mussels on a foil-lined pan and bake it for 10-15 minutes.
7. Voila! yummilicious baked mussels.

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