Chilled Mussels With Red Curry Creme Fraiche

Thai reddish curry paste is simply a blend of reddish chili pepper, garlic, citrus writer and galangal. Here, it is utilized to spirit some the cooking liquid and the topping for the mussels. Refrigerate the mussels successful their cooking liquid until you’re acceptable for assembly, past frost the liquid to usage arsenic a crockery basal aboriginal on.

Try to bargain large, meaty mussels alternatively than tiny ones. Before cooking, discard immoderate mussels whose shells are cracked oregon gouged, oregon that bash not adjacent erstwhile lightly tapped. You tin substitute sour pick for the creme fraiche, but the second provides a richer finish. If the mussels are to beryllium a buffet crockery alternatively than a passed hors d'oeuvre, laic them connected a furniture of crystal for serving.

The mussels and their condiment tin beryllium cooked and refrigerated a time successful advance.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per mussel

• Calories

  60

• Fat

  3 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  2 g

• Sodium

  150 mg

• Cholesterol

  15 mg

• Protein

  5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.