Fried Mussels ( Midye Tava )
Ingredients (2 Servings) – 25 minutes
½ kg unwrapped, cleaned mussels
1 cup of flour
1 cup oil
2 eggs
1 bottle of beer
salt
Directions / How to cook Fried Mussels ( Midye Tava ) ?
* put flour in a large bowl and create abig hole in the middle of flour with your hands
* pour 1 cup of beer and add 2 egg yolks tothe hole and stir the ingredients slowly untill all ingredients blended very well.
* Stir the White part of the eggs with some salt in another bowl by a whisk untill they are foamed
* Add the puffy, foamed White egg parts to the beer flour mixture and stir all
* Put some flour to a large plate
* pour one cup of oil to a fry pan and heat it over a high fire
* when the oil is heated, dip the mussels one by one first to flour then the beer mixtured bowl and put them to the heated oil
* When the mussels are fried; use a spotted spoon to filter extra oil and take them to the serving plate
* You can also thread the fried mussels to a skewer before serving
* fried mussels ( midye Tava ) is ready! Decorate the plate with sliced lemon and Tarator Sauce
Bon appetit!