Serendipity: green lipped mussels – thai style

Name: Serendipity: green lipped mussels – thai style
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: En
Ingredients: 1 pound green lipped mussels (I used frozen green lippped mussels on the half shell as that is all I could find); 1/2 medium onion diced; 3/4 cup white wine (I used Austrian Gewurztraminer, an old one that I lost in the cellar, I wanted the foral aromatics of the Gewurtz); 3 tsp fish sauce; 14 oz can coconut cream; 1 1/2″ knob of fresh galangal (mine was about 1 1/2″ diameter) cut into 1/4″ slices; 1 stalk of lemongrass – smashed to open up the fibers and cut into 2 ” lengths; 3 tsp green curry paste; 15 leaves of Thai basil; 1/2 bunch of fresh cilantro; 1/2 tbl coconut oil

Main Dish

Easy

55 min

I picked up the ingredients at the market earlier and thought how appropriate it would be to make Thai influenced green lipped mussels. Rich and delicious mussels in a coconut cream sauce infused with basil, cilantro, fresh galangal and lemongrass.