New Zealand Seafood Recipes
CREAMY SEAFOOD SOUP
Ingredients
15 mussels
12 oysters, removed from shell
½ cup wine
Bouquet garni (onioin, parsley, thyme)
3 Tbsp butter
2 onions
3 Tbsp flour
3 cups fish stock
1 cup milk
1 cup cream
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Put wine, bouquet garni & mussels in a large saucepan. Cover & steam until the mussels open. Discard mussels that do not open.
Strain & reserve wine & mussel liquor.
Put aside 6 of the cooked mussels, still in shells, to use as a garnish. Remove mussel meats from the other 9 mussels. Finely chop or mince 3 mussel meats. Roughly chop the remaining 6 mussel meats.
Melt butter in the same saucepan. Add chopped onion & cook until translucent.
Blend in flour & cook until frothy, then add minced mussel meats.
Measure wine & mussel liquor & add sufficient fish stock to make up 3½ cups liquid. Gradually stir this liquid & the milk into onion mixture 1 cup at a time, boiling between each addition.
Mix in cream, chopped mussels & oysters. Heat gently until the oysters are cooked. Add the 6 reserved opened mussels, still in shells, to soup. Heat through but do not boil. Season to taste with salt & pepper.
Serve in large soup bowl with an opened mussel in each bowl.
Mussel
- Shell
- Shellfish
- Bake
- BBQ
- Fry
- Curry
- Marinate
- Microwave
- Soup/chowder
- Smoke
- Steam
- Sushi / raw
Oysters, Dredge (Bluff)
- Pearly White
- Shellfish
- Bake
- BBQ
- Fry
- Poach
- Smoke
- Steam
- Soup/chowder
- Sushi / raw
