A Breton Mussel Salad

The tiny mussels from Breton have a wonderful sweet but salty character. The uncomplicated cooking of this region allows the flavour of these molluscs to shine, as this salad demonstrates. Look for smaller mussels from Spring Bay in Tasmania, which are excellent. They come cleaned in a neat package so all that remains to do is remove the odd tufts of the ‘beards’ protruding from their shells. The cider, seaweed, eschalot and fleur de sel vinegar is an essential ingredient in this salad.