Smoked mussel and saffron soup
Smoked mussel and saffron soup

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, smoked mussel and saffron soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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While the soup is cooking, remove the mussels from the shells and put aside. Whisk the corn flour mixed with the water into the simmering liquid. This smooth creamy soup with saffron and makes the best dinner-party starter.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook smoked mussel and saffron soup using 17 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Smoked mussel and saffron soup:
  1. Get 2 lbs fresh mussels
  2. Get 500 ml fish stock
  3. Take 500 ml white wine
  4. Prepare 500 ml clam nectar
  5. Make ready 2 sprigs lemon balm
  6. Get 2 stalks lemon grass
  7. Get 2 tsp saffron
  8. Get 2 cups apple wood chips
  9. Prepare 5 sprigs thyme
  10. Get 1 litre heavy cream
  11. Prepare 2 strips bacon
  12. Take 125 ml mayonnaise
  13. Make ready 1 carrot
  14. Make ready 1 shallot
  15. Make ready 1 stalk celery
  16. Take 1 baby Yukon gold potato (aka golden nugget)
  17. Make ready 2 gherkin pickles

Discard the shells and any mussels that haven't opened. Season, to taste, with the lime juice and salt and freshly ground black pepper. Try this Mussel and Saffron soup with Prawns, Scallops and garlic aioli recipe by Chef Tracee. This is a flavoursome mussel and saffron stock topped with grilled prawns and scallops, mussel meat with garlic aioli and dressed with chives.

Steps to make Smoked mussel and saffron soup:
  1. Put white wine, lemon balm, thyme and lemon grass in a sauce pot and reduce by half
  2. Place saffron in 1cup of steaming hot water cover and put aside.
  3. Smoke 10-15 mussels in a skillet. Do this by placing the wood chips in the skillet dry and bringing to a smoulder. Wrap the mussels in tin foil, poke some holes in it and place in the skillet with the wood chips. Cover and smoke for 5-10 mins.
  4. Once shells have opened, remove meat, place in a blender with the clam nectar and blitz!
  5. Combine all liquids except saffron in a sauce pot and bring to a boil.
  6. Reduce heat to a simmer and liquid to 3/4 of original amount.
  7. Strain saffron tea through a fine sieve into the broth. Salt and pepper to taste.
  8. You should now have a vibrant yellow and Smokey broth.
  9. Fine dice the carrot, shallot, celery, potato and bacon. Sweat until soft and set aside to cool.
  10. Once all is cool, fine dice the gherkins and mix all together with mayonnaise. Salt and pepper to taste.
  11. You now have remoulade.
  12. In a covered sauce pan add saffron broth and enough mussels for 3 mussels per person to be served. *I use clams as well to add variety and texture.
  13. Place a spoon full of remoulade in the center of a shallow soup bowl.
  14. Once the mussels have opened in the broth, place them around the remoulade and add the broth.
  15. Garnish with a nice green herb of your choice and enjoy
  16. Chili oil is an optional garnish that adds to the smokey flavour and brings an element of heat to the dish.
  17. Enjoy!

Cook at Home with Tonya at Cooking on the Bay Cooking School In this series, I cook all Low Carb and Healthy Fat dishes which form part of my Cook Real Food. Add the mussel cooking liquid, saffron, and chicken stock and whisk well. If it's not the desired strength, continue simmering to reduce it and further concentrate the flavors. Taste again and season with salt. mussels — smoked. sunflower oil — for frying. Heat a little oil and sauté onion until glossy but not browned.

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