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Moules marinière without wine

Mussels steamed with butter, shallots and parsley in water or a wine-free fish stock instead of white wine, with a note on mussels for each school.

French · Main · Easy · 4 bowls · 25 min

Each method follows published technique for the dish, and every Halal substitution is checked against the ingredient pages we cite. Photographs come from our ingredient library rather than the finished dish.

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Why Halal checks matter here

Moules marinière is steamed in white wine, which this site does not treat as cooked off, and mussels themselves are a scholarly difference between the schools.

Halal-critical ingredients

• White wine: The published recipe steams the mussels in 250 ml of dry white wine. Cooking it briefly does not make it Halal on this site. Use water or a fish stock with no wine, as here. See Wine.
• Mussels: Many Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali authorities permit sea creatures broadly, so they eat mussels; many Hanafi authorities do not treat mussels like fish. Follow your school. See Mussels and Moules-frites.
• Fish stock: Ready-made fish stocks are bought products, and some contain wine. Read the label, or use water.

Ingredients

Mussels

• 2 kg mussels, cleaned and debearded
• 25 g butter
• 2 shallots, finely sliced
• 250 ml water, or fish stock that lists no wine (instead of dry white wine)
• 1 handful flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Method

1. Check the mussels. Rinse the mussels under cold running water and throw away any that are cracked, or open and won't close when tapped sharply on the side of the sink. Drain well.
2. Soften the shallots. Melt the butter in a large, deep pan with a lid over a medium heat and cook the shallots with a little salt for 3 to 4 minutes until soft.
3. Steam the mussels. Turn up the heat, tip in the mussels and pour in the water or stock. Cover and cook for 4 to 5 minutes, shaking the pan now and then, until all the mussels have opened.
4. Finish and serve. Scatter over the parsley, season with black pepper and turn everything over with a large spoon. Divide between four bowls and spoon over the cooking liquid.

Allergens

molluscs (mussels), milk (butter)

How this recipe was researched

Method adapted from BBC Good Food's 'Moules marinière' by Barney Desmazery (serves 4: 2 kg cleaned mussels; 25 g butter and 2 sliced shallots softened 3 to 4 minutes; mussels added with 250 ml dry white wine, covered and cooked 4 to 5 minutes until open; finished with parsley and black pepper). We replaced the wine with the same amount of water or a fish stock that lists no wine, and added a per-school note on mussels. Timings follow the published technique rather than a kitchen test.

Photograph from our ingredient library: steamed mussels, not the finished dish from this recipe.