Starters & Light meals

Thai mussels with bok choy

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Ingredients

Method
  • 500 g cleaned, debearded fresh Saldahna mussels (rinsed 3 times)
  • 2 T seasame oil
  • 80 g fresh ginger or galangal, cut into julienne
  • 80 g lemongrass, cut diagonally into 1/2 inch pieces and bashed with a cleaver
  • 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
  • 2-3 diagonally sliced red bird’s-eye chillies
  • 1/2 tsp palm sugar
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp fish sauce
  • 1 tsp light soy sauce
  • 1 Tbl coconut cream
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 Tbls lime juice
  • 3 Thai lime leaves, fresh if possible
  • 3 coriander roots, left whole and bashed with a cleaver
  • Dried shitake mushrooms, rehydrated and sliced
  • A handful diagonally sliced spring onions
  • 1 small bok choy roughly chopped
  • Juice of half a kaffir lime, if available
  • Handful coriander leaves

Method

Ingredients

Heat the sesame oil in a wok. Sauté the ginger, lemongrass, garlic and chilli for half a minute to release the flavours.
Add the palm sugar, black pepper, fish sauce and soy sauce, stirring over low heat for about a minute.
Add the mussels and shake the wok vigorously in order to coat all the mussels.
Add the coconut cream, bay leaf, Thai lime leaves. Simmer for about 3 minutes until the mussels have opened.
Stir in the coriander roots, shitake mushrooms (if using), spring onions and bok choy, cooking for a further minute over a high heat. Remove the wok from the stove.
Add the lime juice and coriander leaves. (Don’t cook the lime juice too long or it will become bitter.)
Serve in a heated dish (accompanied by Jasmine rice, fresh diced chilli, fish sauce and lime juice) and enjoy the concentration of flavours, textures and aromas working in concert with each other.

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