Smoked mussel and saffron soup
Smoked mussel and saffron soup

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our 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 am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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None in my experience suffer more than smoked mussels. Oddly shaped, they seem to be conjured from some But put mussels in a can and you wreck everything that's lovely about them: Usually smoked, these sad morsels lose their delicacy and become chalky. There is nothing easier than steaming mussels.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have smoked mussel and saffron soup using 17 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

Season, to taste, with the lime juice and salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve the soup in bowls, scattered with the remaining mussels and garnished with a swirl of the remaining. This smooth creamy soup with saffron and makes the best dinner-party starter. Garnished with mussels it has a touch of luxury but is easy to prepare.

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!

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