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Mussels with dry coconut Recipe
Prep Time | 30 minutes |
Cook Time | 30 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 small Onion finely chopped
- 2-4 green chillies whole
- in thumb-sized piece fresh ginger peeled and pounded into a pastea pestle and mortar
- 4 in garlic cloves peeled and pounded into a pastea pestle and mortar
- Salt to taste
- ½tsp ground turmeric
- 1 tbsp garam masala
- 3 tomatoes chopped into large cubes
- 1 kg/2¼lb mussels scrubbed and de-bearded
- 60 g/2oz desiccated coconut
- leaves handful fresh corianderand stalks chopped
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Instructions
- Heat the vegetable oil in a medium non-stick pan and fry the onion until golden brown.
- Add the chillies, ginger and garlic pastes, salt, turmeric, garam masala and tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes have softened and start to break down.
- Meanwhile, cook the mussels in a large pot of boiling water for about three minutes, until they have opened. Remove them with a slotted spoon and set aside. Reserve the water.
- Add the coconut, coriander and a splash of the cooking water to the spices and tomatoes and stir. The spice mixture should be thick enough to coat the mussels and enter the shells.
- Remove some of the mussels from their shells and leave others in their shells, for a dramatic and appetising effect. Add the mussels to the spice mixture and stir thoroughly. Serve with basmati rice.