DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Moules à la Normande
Also known as: Normandy-Style Mussels
Alice’s selected moules à la normande cooks mussels in cider with butter-cooked aromatics, reduces their cooking liquid with crème fraîche and returns the mussels to the sauce for very hot service.
About Moules à la Normande
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Alice’s selected moules à la normande for Coutances Tourisme combines mussels with butter, cider and crème fraîche. The tourism office presents those ingredients as part of its coastal and local food context.
The mussels are washed and cleaned. Onion and shallot are sliced, parsley is chopped, and the aromatics cook in melted butter until lightly golden.
The mussels are added, followed by brut cider and white pepper. They cook covered over high heat until their shells open, then are lifted out while their cooking liquid remains in the pan.
The retained liquid reduces by about a third before crème fraîche is added. The mussels return to the sauce and are heated briefly together.
Alice serves the complete mussels-and-cream preparation very hot. Traditional fries are offered as an optional, separate accompaniment to the cider sauce.
Ingredients in Moules à la Normande
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- Norman-style