MUSSELS IN A SAFFRON CREAM SAUCE | SA Garden and Home

MUSSELS IN A SAFFRON CREAM SAUCE | SA Garden and Home

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Who says cooking a French meal needs to be a fiddly affair? This two-course menu is both delicious and simple to prepare

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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
  • fresh fennel fronds
  • hot crusty bread
  • lemon wedges

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