Smoked mussel and saffron soup
Smoked mussel and saffron soup

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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. Sprinkle with finely chopped celery leaves.

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

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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!

Put the mussels in a large pot with the white wine, shallots, salt and pepper. Cover and cook over high heat, shaking the pot a few times until all the mussels have opened. Remove the mussels with a ladle and carefully spoon out the liquid without disturbing the sediments at the bottom of the pot. 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.

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