Grilled Mussels With Cracked Black Pepper
"This dish is as delicious as it is simple. There are only 2 ingredients in this recipe, so please use the BEST you can find. Michele, the instructor of the class, introduced me to a WONDERFUL black pepper. It is a delicious black pepper from Malaysia, where it is known as "Naturally Clean Black Pepper". You can find it at Penzeys.com where it is called "Sarawak Black Pepper". It has a floral dimension that other peppers lack and it is produced in an environmentally sound way, without the use of harmful chemicals and with no irradation. This will serve 4-6 as an appetizer."
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 2 lbs fresh mussels
- black pepper, in a mill (best quality)
directions
- Scrub the mussels, rinse in several changes of water and trim the beards, if any.
- Heat a large skillet (cast iron is best) over high heat -- a DRY skillet.
- When the skillet is very hot, put all of the mussels into it and shake the pan.
- The mussels will begin to open immediately. It will sound almost like popcorn. This is the mussels opening up and releasing there juices into the hot pan.
- Continue shaking the pan until all the mussels have opened. This should not take any more than 5 min at the most. They cook quickly and you don't want to overcook them.
- Remove from the heat and season GENEROUSLY with black pepper.
- Transfer the mussels in the skillet to a table or spoon the mussels into individual bowls.
- Serve immediately.
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I was born in the great city of New Orleans, but have had the pleasure of travelling and living all over the place. My parents moved to Lafayette, Louisiana when I started high school. After high school, I was a nanny and lived in England (London). I miss it A LOT!! England, not the being a nanny part. I lived and got married in California (Los Angeles), but we moved back to Lafayette to be closer to family. Well, to make a long story short, things didn't work out and we got a D-I-V-O-R-C-E!!! After that, I packed up and moved to Texas (Beaumont).
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I am a stay at home stepmom (that is my job), so I have all day to cook and look up different recipes. I LOVE it!! I have figured out that I can cook twice as much if I give half of what I cook away....LOL!! This means Toby's business partner and his wife eat just as well as we do!! They have told me on many occasions, that if I can't take Toby anymore they will add on to their house to make room for me. All I have to do is cook!! LOL!!
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