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Mussel Soup

  • For : 4 servings
  • Time : 1 h 10
  • Difficulty : easy

Ingredients for Mussel Soup :

  • 1 kg mussels
  • 100 g celery
  • 100 g leeks
  • 100 g carrots
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 100 g onions
  • 100 g white wine
  • 50 g shallots
  • 100 g olive oil
  • 50 ml pastis
  • saffron flowers
  • 750 ml fish broth
  • 250 ml lobster bisque
  • 100 g crème fraîche
  • chopped parsley
  • 50 b butter
  • salt
  • pepper

Technical stages for Mussel Soup :

  • Peel and wash all the vegetables.
  • Cut them in julienne. Chop the garlic and ciseler the onion.
  • Trim, wash and open in white wine the mussels with ciselered shallots.
  • Pass the water from the mussels through a chinois. Take the mussels out of their shells and set aside in this water.
  • Heat up the olive oil in a pot, add the onion, garlic and 3 vegetable juliennes. Sweat for a few minutes with the lid on, deglaze with pastis, add the saffron, moisten with fish broth, mussel water and lobster bisque. Cook for 10 minutes, cremer and simmer for a few minutes. Away from the heat, add the mussels and battre the butter in.
  • Put the vegetables in the middle of a shallow plate. Pour the soup around, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
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