Smoked mussel and saffron soup
Smoked mussel and saffron soup

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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. Today a lovely dish to warm you up on a chilly day, a. Add to the soup mixture and stir over low heat until hot, but not boiling.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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. Prepare 2 lbs fresh mussels
  2. Make ready 500 ml fish stock
  3. Make ready 500 ml white wine
  4. Get 500 ml clam nectar
  5. Get 2 sprigs lemon balm
  6. Prepare 2 stalks lemon grass
  7. Make ready 2 tsp saffron
  8. Take 2 cups apple wood chips
  9. Get 5 sprigs thyme
  10. Get 1 litre heavy cream
  11. Prepare 2 strips bacon
  12. Take 125 ml mayonnaise
  13. Prepare 1 carrot
  14. Get 1 shallot
  15. Make ready 1 stalk celery
  16. Get 1 baby Yukon gold potato (aka golden nugget)
  17. Get 2 gherkin pickles

Taste again and season with salt. Delia's Mussel and Saffron Soup recipe. This is a smart soup, great if you're entertaining, and now that the mussels come with much of the cleaning and scrubbing already Stir in the saffron and leave it to infuse. Add all mussels to soup and stir in chopped parsley, salt, pepper and cream.

Instructions 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!

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