950. California Farm Mussels Thermidor

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

Thermidor is baking chunks of precooked seafood like lobster or mussels or scallops or crab or shrimp in a buttery wine sauce called bechamel sauce. Mussels are my favorite in this creamy bechamel sauce.

950. California Farm Mussels Thermidor

Thermidor is baking chunks of precooked seafood like lobster or mussels or scallops or crab or shrimp in a buttery wine sauce called bechamel sauce. Mussels are my favorite in this creamy bechamel sauce.

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Ingredients

5 minute cook, 5 minute bake.
2 people
  1. 1 poundpeeled, cooked, frozen mussels
  2. 1 poundcooked mussels in the shell
  3. 4 Tbschopped celery leaves
  4. 1 Tbschopped onion greens
  5. 1 Tbsolive Oil
  6. 1/2 cupwhite cooking wine
  7. 4 Tbsgrassfed butter
  8. 4 Tbsflour
  9. 4 Tbsmilkpowder in cup of white wine
  10. 1/2 cupshaved gruyere cheese
  11. 1/4 Tspnutmeg
  12. 1 clovegarlic, minced
  13. Enough Wine to dilute the thick molten bechamel mix to smooth sauce
  14. Serve with fruit salad
  15. 1 cupgrated gruyere cheese
  16. Serve with steamed artichoke
  17. Equipment: glass bowl, saucepan, skillet
  18. Cost: cooked peeled mussels $4, cooked mussels in the shell $4, bechamel sauce $2, cooking wine, other, $2, $6 dinner

Cooking Instructions

5 minute cook, 5 minute bake.
  1. 1

    Shake frozen peeled and cooked mussels in olive oil and wine inside bag till well coated, slide in hot cast iron pan, heat for five minutes. Save leftover liquid. Put mussels in warm glass bowl, rest.

  2. 2

    Heat whole cooked shell mussels in bag at 170F degrees, 5 minutes. Lay on top of peeled mussels in warm glass bowl.

  3. 3

    Melt butter with minced garlic in cast iron saucepan, add flour, bake flour while stirring. Drizzle mussel juice from skillet in bechamel sauce, stir, melt gruyere in the sauce.

  4. 4

    Lay mussels in glass baking dish, sprinkle chopped celery leaves over, dilute bechamel with wine in heated sauce pan, pour bechamel sauce over. Sprinkle of celery leaves and green onion on top. Bake mussels in the bechamel sauce 6 minutes in oven at 350F degrees.

  5. 5

    Serve with salad, warm fresh roll of bread and steamed artichokes.

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I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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