Recipe - Curried Mussels With Mushrooms

3 lg Mussels
1 cup Water
One half teaspoon Baby dried red chillies
15 Ghee
1 tablespoon Grated fresh ginger
2 Cloves garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon Chopped fresh lemon grass
2 Green shallots, chopped
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340 cn Coconut milk
1 tablespoon Fish sauce
1 tablespoon Brown sugar
150 Baby mushrooms, cut or sliced up
2 teaspoon Plain flour
1 tablespoon Water, extra
1 tablespoon Chopped fresh basil

The photo of this recipe looks wonderful too. Whole shelled mussels
in a white "curry" sauce along with slices of button mushrooms and
other goodies. The curry isn't what we would normally think of as a
curry++ there isn't any curry powder called for (though it would
probably be good).

1: Scrub mussels under cold running water; remove beards. Combine
mussels and water in large saucepan, cover, bring to boil, reduce
heat, simmer for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Drain mussels,
remove and discard shells; reserve mussels.

2: Place chillies in small bowl, cover with boiling water, let stand
for 10 minutes; drain and chop chillies. Heat ghee in medium frying
pan, add chillies, ginger, garlic, lemon grass and shallots, stir
over medium heat for about 2 minutes or until shallots are soft.

3: Stir in coconut milk, sauce and sugar, bring to boil, reduce heat,
simmer, uncovered, for 1 minute. Stir in mushrooms, cook over medium
heat for 1 minute. Blend flour with extra water, stir into mushroom
mixture, stir over high heat until sauce boils and thickens.

4: Stir in mussels and basil, stir over medium heat until heated
through.

Serves 4.

NOTE: Recipe is best made just before serving. This recipe is not
suitable to freeze or microwave.

From "Easy Curry Cookery", edited by Maryanne Blacker, The Australian
Women's Weekly Home Library Division, 1991. ISBN 0949892769.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; August 9 1993.

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