Mussel Pie

 

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Grant Dixon
Prep:15 minutes Cook:20 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

  • 12 large mussels, steamed.
  • ¼ cup chopped parsley.
  • 2 eggs.
  • 3 rashers lean bacon.
  • 1 cup frozen peas or mixed vegetables.
  • Sea salt and ground pepper.
  • Sheets of pie pastry.
  • 1 cup standard milk.

Directions:

  • Chop the mussels finely.
  • Beat eggs in bowl and stir in milk.
  • Mix in mussels, parsley, peas and seasoning.
  • Pour into pie dish and cover with pastry.
  • Brush pastry with milk.
  • Place in preheated oven and bake 20 minutes at 180°C.
 

 

Mussels
Mussels Green-lipped mussels are firm favourites on many Kiwi families’ tables. In numerous places around our coastline they are easy to get, and with New Zealand’s aquaculture industry bedding-in mussel farms around the country they are inexpensive to obtain from a ‘supermarket reef’ near you, even if you live far inland. Being filter feeders mussels are normally found where there is reasonable water movement, attached to rocky outcrops and underwater structures. In some harbours they will attach themselves to low-lying foul and even mud bottoms in the centre of channels; however, these generally do not taste as good as the ones plucked off the rocks due to the higher amount of sediment they are exposed to. Be careful taking mussels off wharf pilings and mooring poles.


 

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