Artichoke and Mussel Bisque Best Family Recipes

Friday, June 14, 2013

Artichoke and Mussel Bisque

"This is an splendid soup, and fairly easy to make. One advice is to keep the cooking time down on this one. The soup goes from a high-quality light, shiny inexperienced to a totally stupid inexperienced if overcooked. Enjoy!"

Ingredients :

three whole artichokes
1 bulb fennel, trimmed and diced
1 onion, chopped
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 quarts water to cover
salt and pepper to taste
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon margarine
1 pound mussels - cleaned and debearded
half cup dry white wine
1 lemon, juiced
3 tablespoons chopped sparkling parsley

Instructions :

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Remove the hearts and stems from the artichokes and discard the leaves. Chop the hearts and stems and area them in a massive pot over low heat with the fennel and onion. Add the cream, simply sufficient water to cowl all, and salt and pepper to taste. Let this simmer for 15 to 20 mins, or till gentle.
Meanwhile, rinse and de-beard the mussels. In a separate massive saucepan over medium low warmth, sweat the garlic inside the butter or margarine for 30 seconds. Add the wiped clean mussels and the wine, cover and allow simmer for 5 minutes. Remove the mussels and reserve the liquid. (Note: Be careful now not to brown the garlic.)
Transfer the vegetable combination to a blender and puree till smooth. Add the lemon juice, reserved mussel liquid and season with salt and pepper to flavor. Strain this mixture via a exceptional mesh strainer and pinnacle each serving with a few mussels. Garnish with chopped clean parsley.

Notes :

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