White wine garlic mussels

This recipe for mussels cooked in the most delicious white wine garlic sauce is the easiest dinner recipe, perfect served with crusty bread for dipping.

📝 Ingredients

• 1 1/2 kg (3lbs) mussels (in shells / half-shell (cleaned))
• 1/2 cup butter
• 6 garlic cloves (thinly sliced )
• 1 red chilli (finely chopped )
• 1 1/2 cups white wine
• juice of 1 lemon
• 2 tbsp parsley (finely chopped )
• salt and pepper (to taste )

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Melt the butter in a deep pan with a lid.
2. 2Add the garlic and chilli and cook for 30 seconds or until fragrant.
3. 3Pour in the wine and lemon juice and bring to a simmer.
4. 4Add the mussels then cover with a lid and cook for 5 minutes or until they are all open. Discard any mussels that don't open (if using whole mussels)
5. 5Add parsley and season to taste with salt and pepper.
6. 6Serve with crusty bread for dipping.