Peppered Herb Mussels

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 kg mussels
• 1 cup wine or 1 cup water, for steaming
• 80 g butter
• 2 tablespoons canned green peppercorns in brine, drained and chopped coarsely
• 2 teaspoons lemon rind, finely grated
• 1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 scrub mussels, remove beards. steam mussels in a large saucepan of boiling water or wine, uncovered until mussels open. discard any that do not open. remove and discard half of each shell.
• 2 combine butter, peppercorns and lemon rind. spread evenly over mussel meat in each shell.
• 3 cook mussels, uncovered on a heated bbq until heated through.
• 4 just before serving sprinkle with parsley.