Patience Gray, Primrose Boyd

Risotto with Mussels

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd

Published 1957

  • About

Mussel beds are to be found on rocky coasts where a fresh-water stream drains into the sea. Fishermen will sometimes divulge their whereabouts, when nothing is easier than to gather them in a bucket on an ebbing tide, keeping enough sea-water to cover them. A reliable fishmonger is the next best resort.

Ingredients

  • 4 dozen mussels are needed for this dish
  • 1½ lb rice
  • a handful of

Method

If the mussels come straight out of the sea, they need vigorous scrubbing, the beards must be removed, any that are open should be rejected, and the rest should be left in a bucket of sea-water, with an upturned plate on the bottom, for the sand particles to sink to the bottom. If they come from the fishmonger, scrub and beard them, and leave in a pail of salt water.

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