Recently I cooked a seafood dinner for ShadowKnight & myself. We started with Wok Cooked Fragrant Mussels made famous by Jamie Oliver. Then followed it with Smashed Potatoes & whole baked Lemon Sole. The fish was marinated in similar flavours to the mussels minus the Lime Juice & Coconut milk. The mussels were my favourite & I am definately making this on Good Friday for those of our family that DO eat seafood. It was absolutely devine! I have made the recipe available for those of you who would like to give it a try. Please enjoy!
Ingredients
2kg / 4½ lb best live Mussels
Olive oil
2 cloves of garlic, finely sliced
3 sticks of Lemon grass, outer leaves removed, finely sliced
2 fresh chillies, red, green or both
3 tablespoons finely sliced ginger
2 handfuls of fresh coriander, pounded or finely chopped
1 tablespoons sesame oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
5 Spring onions
Juice of 3 limes
1 x 400ml tin of coconut milk Place your mussels with a couple of lugs of olive oil in a large, very hot wok or pot. Shake around and add the rest of the ingredients, apart from the lime juice and coconut milk. Keep turning over until all the mussels have opened – throw away any that remain closed. Squeeze in your lime juice and add your coconut milk. Bring to the boil and serve immediately.
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10:03 am
That looks absolutely delicious! I am rather a fan of Jamie’s recipes and I think making it for Good Friday is an inspiration. I might look at shellfish too. We have friends whom we invite to dinner every year on that day and they observe the no meat thing. I usually make some sort of vegetarian or fish dish….but shellfish might be the way to go this year.
Thanks for the idea:)
2:19 pm
YUM! That looks and sounds scrumptious!
Thanks for teasing my taste buds lol
2:34 pm
LOL
As we have been watching lots of food/cooking based programs lately, I have been watching closely for other recipes to go alongside the Fragrant Mussels for Good Friday. I was wanting to bake a whole fish where it can be served on a platter & each person can help themselves to the fish. However many recipes that we have seen have now tempted our tastebuds. We have decided upon a simple Gordon Ramsay fillet of Sea Bass. It gets poached in clingwrap with herbs poked into slits in the skin side of the fish. Of course our own variation will suffice however it is extremely simple & a new way for us to enjoy the fish.
4:54 pm
I am from New Zealand and in a small rural countryside restaurant they had a sign saying “Jamie olivers Famous Mussel Dish
well as for me loving my seafood we ordered 2 bowls that had a side of garlic bread…
well i tell you instead of me ordering a main meal i ordered another bowl of those mussels
they were fantastic….the mussels were cooked just perfect not over cooked and not under cooked “just right” I love it and so should the world…MMMMMMMM my mouth is watering already…