Chef’s Tip:
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1. Buy the freshest and alive
mussels - if the shell is open
before cooking, and remains
open even after you touch it,
it means the mussel is dead
and should be discarded.
2. Rinse them under cold
running water.
3. Debeard mussels and pull out the
stringy beard - Pinch the beard
with your thumb and index finder
and use a side to side motion to
firmly tug it out. The beard isn’t
harmful and it is edible, just not
particularly tasty. You can also
use a knife to cut off the beard.
4. Remove any of the mussels that
remained closed after cooking it means the mussels were dead
before you cooked them and
they should be thrown away.
Cheese that melts quickly
is best for this dish