Veneto Style Mussel Casserole


Rating: 2.67 / 5.00 (3 Votes)


Total time: 45 min

Servings: 4.0 (servings)

Ingredients:















Instructions:

Brush the mussels under running water with care, removing the byssus threads. Remove open mussels, they are no longer perfect.

Rinse the long grain rice, drain it and boil it with half of the fish stock. Now swell at low temperature with closed lid for twenty minutes.

Blanch (scald) the tomatoes with boiling water, peel, remove the seeds and roughly dice. Clean the leek, rinse, drain and cut into rings as well as the peeled onions. Rinse and dry parsley and chop coarsely.

Fry the leeks and onions in half the butter until translucent. Press the peeled garlic over them. Add the tomatoes, parsley and mussels. Pour the remaining fish stock and the wine. Make the mussels in the closed saucepan, shaking frequently, for ten minutes.

Lift the mussels out of the cooking pot into a tureen with a skimmer. Discard any mussels that have not opened in the process.

Bring the broth to a boil repeatedly, add the remaining butter, mix with the long-grain rice, season with salt, pepper, and saffron, and pour over the mussels Form.

Offer as an entrée or small dinner.

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