Mussels with tomatoes and cream

1 . Stage

Put the mussels in the freezer.

2 . Stage

Finely chop half an onion.

3 . Stage

At the same time we melt butter...

4 . Stage

... ...and put the water on to boil. Salt it, add the peppers and bay leaf.

5 . Stage

And so, the water came to a boil, we add the mussels to it. By the way, this is the main "trick", I tried to skip this step and put the mussels immediately in the pan, it turns out much worse.

6 . Stage

And at the same time we fry the onions.

7 . Stage

Okay, the mussels come to a boil, blanch our tomato along with them.

8 . Stage

After a minute of tomato under cold water, the mussels are thrown in a colander.

9 . Stage

Peel the tomato from the skin and finely chop it. I have half of it left.

10 . Stage

We add the tomato to the onion, which has already become transparent, fry a couple of minutes. And you can do it a little longer, to taste, in general)

11 . Stage

Add our mussels and cream. The cream should be about 1/3-1/2 covered with the mussels.

12 . Stage

After 5 minutes the cream evaporates, pepper it with freshly ground pepper and add the garlic, I have dried garlic. Done. Ideally, you can also sprinkle with herbs. You can eat!