Mussels With Cream of Endive and Sweet Potato

5.0 (1)

You can’t observe Belgian Restaurant Week without mussels, and truthful Washington's 2nd yearly Mussel Throwdown took spot past play successful the hallway astatine Eastern Market. Seven chefs -- representing Belga Cafe, Brasserie Beck, Et Voila!, Marvin, Locolat, Granville Moore’s and the Embassy of Belgium -- delivered precise antithetic bowls to an enthusiastic crowd.

The judges' panel, which included me, tasted mussels with kumquats and grapefruit, with a creme verde sauce, with fennel and orangish juice, and more. But we agreed that cook Claudio Pirollo’s mussels were the champion of the day.

The crockery was inspired by other pick of endive that Pirollo had made for an lawsuit past week. He re-created it, adding other caramelized endive. He initially experimented with citrus thyme, which made the broth a spot bitter, helium says. So helium utilized chives and saccharine murphy instead, adjacent though “I ne'er saw saccharine potatoes successful Belgium,” says the Belgian native.

"Americans similar saccharine potatoes, and I bash saccharine murphy fries sometimes astatine the restaurant," the cook says. “I deliberation they bash the instrumentality here. And erstwhile you’re done with the mussels, you’ve got a small crockery to eat."

Pirollo reworked the look to shorten the mentation time. We’ve chopped it successful fractional here, but consciousness escaped to double.

From Claudio Pirollo, cook and co-owner of Et Voila! successful the Palisades.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 3, utilizing half-and-half)

• Calories

  780

• Fat

  41 g

• Saturated Fat

  23 g

• Carbohydrates

  42 g

• Sodium

  1270 mg

• Cholesterol

  220 mg

• Protein

  47 g

• Fiber

  12 g

• Sugar

  13 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 Claudio Pirollo, cook and co-owner of Et Voila! successful the Palisades.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.