Smoked mussel and saffron soup
Smoked mussel and saffron soup

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, 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. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Put the mussels and liquor, potato, sautéed vegetables and cream into a blender or food processor and blitz until the mix is completely smooth. Today a lovely dish to warm you up on a chilly day, a.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Take 500 ml fish stock
  3. Get 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. Take 1 litre heavy cream
  11. Make ready 2 strips bacon
  12. Get 125 ml mayonnaise
  13. Prepare 1 carrot
  14. Get 1 shallot
  15. Prepare 1 stalk celery
  16. Make ready 1 baby Yukon gold potato (aka golden nugget)
  17. Take 2 gherkin pickles

Remove half of mussels from shells. Spoon vegetables evenly into shallow serving bowls. Try this Mussel and Saffron Soup recipe, or contribute your own. 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!

Try this Mussel and Saffron Soup recipe, or contribute your own. Add all mussels to soup and stir in chopped parsley, salt, pepper and cream. Melt the butter in a large pan which has a tight fitting lid, add the onion and thyme, and cook for a few moments until fragrant. 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.

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