Recipe

Muscles

Muscles

Photo by Sasa Stucin

  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Scallops
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    Sasa Stucin's Notes: Another 'less is more' recipe, which emphasizes the freshness and quality of the product. No crazy spices with over complicated methods. An incredibly cheap, easy to make and exotic for some...

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Serves 4

  1. First, and the only tedious step in the recipe is the cleaning. You have to remove the green bits sticking out of the muscles or you'l be chewing sand. For the sake of presentation you can also clean the outside shell with a knife.

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  2. Once you're done cleaning, finely chop up the garlic, onion and parsley and heat the largest pan in your possession with a good swig of oil.

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  3. First fry the onion until soft, then add the garlic. Add the parsley two minutes after the garlic and fry just so it releases the aroma.

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  4. Now we're ready to fill the pot with muscles and cover for a 3 minutes.

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  5. Open the pan, add the bread crumbs and wine and mix well.

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  6. Now leave to cook and mix occasionally until all the muscles have opened.

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  7. Serve immediately, with a large loaf of fresh bread. And make sure you soak up all the juices...

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