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Mornington Mussels
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(Recipe ID: 600)
Serves 2
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Source: Vito De Carolis
Comfort cooking with shellfish.
Ingredients
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- 1/2 pound mussels
- 1 Bay Leaf
- 1 Onion, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon Coarse Sea Salt
- 3 Tablespoons Cold Water
- 2 Tablespoons Butter
- 2 Tablespoons All-Purpose Flour
- 1 cup Whole Milk
- 2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
- Fine Sea Salt and Fresh Ground Green Peppercorn, to taste
Instructions
- Scrub and debeard the mussels. Discard any that are open.
- Put mussels in a pot with bay leaf, onion and coarse salt. Add cold water, cover with a lid and cook over high heat, shaking the pot often so that all mussels open at about the same time, 2 to 3 mnutes. Remove from heat.
- Take the shells from the pot and remove mussels from the shells and place them in a baking dish. Strain the liquid from the pot.
- Blend butter and flour together, add milk gradually and then stir into the mussel liquid. Boil in a saucepan for 4 minutes. Add lemon juice and season with salt and pepper.
- Pour over the mussels and re-heat before serving.
- Serve with thinly-cut slices of brown bread and butter.
