Mussels in Shaoxing Wine

Salut,

A couple of weeks ago, we had mussels for dinner while we were camping in Cancale and few days ago, we had mussels again for dinner. Most of the seafood price are quite cheaper at this time, and the mussels that we had tastes really good. Mussels are so easy to cook and with just a few simple ingredients, we had a great food for dinner.

Most people here cooking mussels with white wine, shallot and parsley, but mon mari used to cook with shaoxing wine, shallots, garlic, ginger, chilli and it sure the shaoxing rice wine taste even better than white wine.

MUSSELS IN SHAOXING WINE

Ingredients;

1 kg mussels, scrub and cleaned
2 shallots, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2cm fresh ginger, chopped
1 red chilli, seeded and chopped
200ml Shaoxing cooking wine
Pepper to taste

METHOD;

- Heat up some oil in a large saucepan and fry shallots, garlic, ginger and chillies until fragrant.
- Add Shaoxing wine and bring to boil.
- Add cleaned mussels, season with pepper and cover with a lid.
- Cook the mussels until the shells are opened.

Bon appétit!