{"id":199,"date":"2009-04-12T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T01:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-04-12T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T01:51:41","slug":"mussels-in-the-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"MUSSELS IN THE SHELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best mussels to use for this recipe are NZ green lipped ones.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t get these, use brown mussels as a substitute, but you will need to use more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12 green lipped mussels<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd C butter at room temperature<\/p>\n<p>4 cloves garlic, crushed<\/p>\n<p>Juice and zest of 1 lemon<\/p>\n<p>1 C grated mature cheddar cheese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heat oven grill to highest setting<\/p>\n<p>Steam the mussels in a small amount of water until they open.\u00a0 Remove the mussels from the shell.\u00a0 Remove the beard and any gristly bits from the mussels and discard.\u00a0 Keep one clean half shell per mussel.<\/p>\n<p>In a small bowl, mix the butter, garlic, lemon juice and lemon zest together until well blended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arrange the shells on a baking tray.\u00a0 Place one mussel in each shell half.\u00a0 Put a dollop of the butter mixture on each mussel.\u00a0 Top with grated cheese.\u00a0 Place under the grill for a few minutes until golden and sizzling.<\/p>\n<p>Serves 2 &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-201 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000375.jpg\" alt=\"Mussels\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best mussels to use for this recipe are NZ green lipped ones.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t get these, use brown mussels as a substitute, but you will need to use more. Ingredients 12 green lipped mussels \u00bd C butter at room temperature 4 cloves garlic, crushed Juice and zest of 1 lemon 1 C grated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,20],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-mussels","tag-starters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ps8Td-3d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foursistersfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}