Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Baked Garlic Butter Parmesan Mussels


New Zealand Mussels

For Valentine's Day, I wanted to prepare a home-cooked meal mainly because I remember going the rounds at Chapeau five years ago trying to get the waiter to bring our food in a timely manner.  As much as I love seven course meals, by the time we got out of there it was midnight and I had to work the next day. For the menu tonight, I started off with baked mussels.  I remembered a recipe my mother had so I decided to recreated it and add breadcrumbs for extra crunchiness.  The results turned out very well and it was extremely easy to make.  I will reserve this recipe for another dinner party.

Baked Garlic Butter Parmesan Mussels
Ingredients
1 lb frozen mussels
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

2 tablespoons of fresh parsley, chopped
1/2 cup of breadcrumbs
1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese

Directions
1) Heat oven to 425 degrees.
2) Remove and discard top shell of each mussel and place mussels on a baking sheet.
3) Combine butter, garlic, parsley, and breadcrumbs in a bowl.
4) Spoon mixture over mussels.
5) Add parmesan cheese over each mussel.
6) Bake for 8 minutes.
7) Garnishg with fresh parsley.

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