Belgian Recipes for Mussels

Here are professional Belgian Recipes for Mussels with garlic, wine sauce or natural. Mussels are a typical belgian food - visit a good restaurant or follow our recipe to prepare your own.

These are top Belgium recipes and deserve the finest ingredients. When made with lower quality products, you will have an average result.

Mussels nature
Until 10 years ago, this was very often a cheap dish in a fish restaurant. Now those days are over and it’s very often one of the most expensive fish dishes.

Good mussels are from Yerseke -Sealand, Holland. A quality check is to ask what kind of ‘Zeeuwse Mussels’ they have. The best are ‘Goudmerk’. But Jumbo is also very good - Avoid the rest.

Do not believe that imperials and supers are as good.That’s simply not true and those are not worth the 20 Euro.But, let’s face it. You are probably not in Belgium and you still want to make Belgium mussels. All right! Let’s assume you can find Canadian mussels in your store.These will do the job too. Of course, you should once taste the originals. Their taste can’t be beaten.

Recipe per serving
1 kg of mussels (in shells)
A big onion
Fresh celery

• Cut the onion and the celery in big pieces and fry it a bit in a medium pot. Avoid that it becomes brown.

• Add the mussels and put a bit of pepper. The pot should be maximum ¾ filled.

• Now put the fire on maximum for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, shake the whole pot. And give an extra 3 minutes.

Your mussels are now ready to serve.

Sauce.
Take a bit of the juice that will be on the bottom of the pot. Add some mustard and a bit of mayonnaise. Congrats, this is the original Flemish mussels sauce.

Other versions

White wine
Add a half glass of wine to them after the first 5 minutes and you have Mussels in white wine.

Garlic
Add some garlic and cream to them and you have Mussels in cream with garlic.

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