Deep Fried Stuffed Mussels

In this recipe you stuff the mussels
with a mixture of spinach and cream cheese.
Batter them and deep fry them to a
golden brown color.
The ingredients amounts depends
on how many mussels you have.

Ingredients:
Fresh mussels (in the shell),
as many as you want.
1/2 cup white wine
Cream cheese, softened
Frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
Finely chopped garlic
Dried Italian breadcrumbs
Fresh ground black pepper
Flour
Eggs
Cannola oil for frying

Directions:
Place mussels in a large stock pot,
add white wine and steam open.
Place cream cheese, spinach,garlic
and black pepper in food processer
and pulse until all blended.
Place some of the mixture inside
each mussel and re-close.
Dip each mussel in flour
then egg then breadcrumbs,
allow to sit in refridgerator
for several hours to set crumbs.
Fry in cannola oil until golden
about 2 minutes per mussel.