MUSSELS IN A SAFFRON CREAM SAUCE | SA Garden and Home

Ingredients

• 30ml olive oil
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 2 shallots or 1 small onion, peeled and finely sliced
• 1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
• 125ml dry white wine
• pinch saffron threads, soaked in 45ml warm water
• 10ml cornflour,
• mixed with 45ml cold water
• 1kg mussels, cleaned and tough beards removed
• 250ml cream
• salt and black pepper