Easiest Way to Make 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. Put the mussels and liquor, potato, sautéed vegetables and cream into a blender or food processor and blitz until the mix is completely smooth.

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Recipe of Smoked mussel and saffron soup

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

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Smoked mussel and saffron soup:

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

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. 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. Try this Mussel and Saffron Soup recipe, or contribute your own.

Instructions

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!

The Best Smoked Mussels Recipes on Yummly Green Curry Mussels With Sticky Rice, Brodetto, Mussels Provencal With Fries. 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. This soup is relatively simple to make but tastes totally lavish.

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