White Wine Steamed Mussels Recipe [View all]

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Simple and basic this week. Steamed mussels are delicious and ridiculously simple to make. The hardest part of the whole operation is giving your mussels a good scrub before you drop them in the pot! No matter how clean they are, some grit usually sticks to those shells, so make sure they get a good cleaning before you put them in the pot if you're hoping to eat some of the broth after the mussels are done (which I recommend!).

We used white wine for this, but of course if you would prefer not to use any kind of booze you could use chicken stock (or even something like shrimp stock, I suppose). Other things that would go well in this recipe are things like a good Belgian Trappist ale, or a nice EBS or Brown Ale. The combination of leeks and tomato with some garlic and shallot is pretty classic, but this is a versatile dish changing the flavour profile is easy.