Smoked mussel and saffron soup
Smoked mussel and saffron soup

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, smoked mussel and saffron soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Smoked mussel and saffron soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Smoked mussel and saffron soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

My recipe for Mussel Saffron Soup has a white wine and chicken stock base, flavored with a bit of curry powder and saffron. Mussel broth can become quite salty, so I use some cream to cut the salty taste. Garnished with some chopped parsley, this makes a quick tasty dish for lunch or dinner! Today a lovely dish to warm you up on a chilly day, a.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have smoked mussel and saffron soup using 17 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

Remove half of mussels from shells. Spoon vegetables evenly into shallow serving bowls. While the soup cooks, pick the meat from the mussels. Discard the shells and any mussels that haven't opened.

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!

While the soup cooks, pick the meat from the mussels. Discard the shells and any mussels that haven't opened. 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. Australian Gourmet Traveller soup recipe for mussel and saffron veloute.

So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food smoked mussel and saffron soup recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am confident that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!