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Warm mussels with lemon

A small pot of mussels steamed in butter and onion, with lemon squeezed over at the end.

22 minutes in total — 10 minutes of preparation and 12 minutes on the hob or in the oven. Written for 2 servings.

gluten-free · contains fish

Ingredients

For 2 servings.

  • 800 g mussels
  • 45 g butter
  • 1 pcs lemon
  • 1 pcs onion
  • 1 tsp pepper

How to make it

  1. Rinse the mussels and discard any that do not close. Chop the onion finely and halve the lemon.
  2. Sweat the onion in the butter in a pot for 3-4 minutes.
  3. Add the mussels, put on the lid and steam them for 5-6 minutes, until they have opened.
  4. Discard any mussels that are still closed.
  5. Squeeze the lemon over, scatter pepper on and serve the mussels at once.

Why it is easy

  • One pan or pot — and so one thing to wash up

Nutrition per serving

approx. 540 kcal · 49 g protein · 26 g fat · 19 g carbohydrate

Calculated from the ingredients using figures from Frida (the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark), by the same code the app uses. The calories are rounded to the nearest ten, because home cooking lands within about ±30 % — a number with more digits would promise a precision it does not have. No judgement is attached to these figures, and none is coming.

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